Assistant Deli Manager

Brookshire Grocery Company•Commerce, TX

12d•Onsite

About The Position

The Assistant Deli Manager helps ensure hot and cold foods are prepared and displayed according to Company standards. The role works with deli personnel to support department sales, profits, and customer service, while assisting upper management with staff development, scheduling, operations, inventory, and performance. The position involves enforcing food quality and safety standards, checking prepared foods for quality, assisting with deli preparation and catering orders, receiving and verifying inventory, supporting product ordering, and promoting sales through customer service and product displays. Work is generally performed in a retail store and includes exposure to hot surfaces, temperature extremes, occasional wet or slippery conditions, and cleaning agents.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED and at least one year of related experience, or an equivalent combination of experience and/or higher education.
Must be at least 18 years of age.
Food Handler certification required.
Manager Food Safety certification required.
Intermediate knowledge of deli department operations and in-store ordering and inventory management processes.
Basic knowledge of scheduling software systems.
Ability to lead and motivate others and communicate effectively with customers and partners in writing and verbally.
Ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to operate a manual or electric pallet jack and safely use equipment such as a bailer, slicer, and deep fryer.
Ability to read and operate digital equipment, meters, dials, and calibrated scales.
Ability to work with sharp-edged objects such as knives and box cutters and use precision and non-precision hand tools.
Ability to work safely with fellow partners and promote a team environment.
Ability to learn new technology systems, methods, and processes.
Ability to work flexible schedules, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
Must be attentive to potential hazards and report hazards that cannot be immediately remedied.
Attendance at work is required.

Responsibilities

Work with upper management to train and develop partners, schedule, plan, assign, and direct work.
Support management in reviewing historical sales, advertising, and promotion data; co-manage inventory and help maintain satisfactory in-stock levels.
Review profit and loss, sales, shrink, and labor data with the department manager as needed.
Help maintain and improve sales performance, financial results, public relations, product quality, and work standards.
Enforce quality control and food safety standards, and ensure products are dated and rotated properly.
Inspect prepared foods for quality, including aroma, flavor, taste, texture, and color.
Assist with slicing, weighing, packaging, and labeling deli products and preparing catering and delivery orders.
Check truck inventory, unload products, and verify inventory accuracy, product ordering, and related paperwork.
Promote product sales through suggestive selling and appealing displays.
Greet customers, answer questions, and take orders by phone and in person.
Maintain a clean, safe, and sanitary work and shopping environment by following Company safety procedures.
Identify potential hazards, remedy them or place appropriate warnings when reasonably possible, and report hazards that cannot be immediately remedied to a supervisor.