Assistant Market Manager

Brookshire Grocery Company•Lindale, TX

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The Assistant Market Manager supports the market department’s operations and helps keep market and seafood cases full, rotated, and fresh with prepackaged meats. The role works with market personnel to cut, weigh, package, and label products as needed, while promoting customer service and product sales. It works in conjunction with upper management to train and develop partners and to plan, schedule, assign, and direct work. The position also supports review of sales and operational information, inventory management, product quality, food safety, and workplace standards. The role is generally performed in a retail store and involves handling meat and seafood products, operating department equipment, and serving customers. Work includes frequent exposure to cold, wet or slippery conditions, sharp equipment, and cleaning agents, with moderate to loud noise. The position requires flexible scheduling that may include nights, weekends, and holidays, as well as the physical demands described in the posting.

Requirements

Minimum age of 18; partners must be at least 21 to drive for Company business under the BGC Business Driver Policy.
High school diploma or GED and at least one year of related experience, or an equivalent combination of experience and/or higher education.
Food Handler certification required.
Manager Food Safety certification required.
Intermediate knowledge of market department operations, in-store ordering machines, inventory management processes, and scheduling software systems.
Ability to read and operate digital equipment, meters, dials, and calibrated scales.
Ability to safely operate and maintain department equipment and operate a manual or electric pallet jack.
Ability to safely operate hazardous tools and equipment, including a bailer, and work with sharp objects such as saws, meat grinders, knives, and box cutters.
Ability to use non-precision and precision hand tools.
Ability to work well with fellow partners and promote a team environment.
Ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally with customers and partners.
Ability to work flexible schedules, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
Attendance at work is required.
Ability to meet the listed physical demands, including standing or walking continuously; using close and distance vision, depth perception, or focusing continuously; and lifting or maneuvering objects up to 75 pounds occasionally.

Nice To Haves

Prerequisite experience as a meatcutter, apprentice, and/or manager trainee is preferred.

Responsibilities

Work with upper management to train and develop partners, schedule, plan, assign, and direct work.
Support upper management in reviewing historical sales, advertising, and promotion data; co-manage inventory using item management processes to maintain satisfactory in-stock levels; and review profit and loss, sales, shrink, and labor data with the department manager as applicable.
Contribute indirectly to maintaining and improving sales performance, financial results, public relations, product quality, and work standards.
Check inventory on trucks, unload products, and ensure accuracy of inventory, product ordering, and associated paperwork.
Cut, weigh, package, and label products, using non-precision and precision tools or instruments to prepare unfinished meat products in desired sizes, shapes, or weights.
Enforce quality-control and food-safety standards and ensure dated products are stocked and rotated properly; inspect product quality using aroma, texture, and color.
Keep coolers and freezers organized according to Company guidelines and adhere to governmental product-origin labeling requirements.
Promote product sales through suggestive selling initiatives.
Greet customers, answer questions, take orders by phone and in person, and maintain a friendly, customer-service-oriented attitude.
Maintain a clean, safe, and sanitary working and shopping environment by following Company safety procedures.
Identify potential hazards and remedy them or place appropriate warning signs or devices as soon as reasonably possible; report hazards that cannot be immediately remedied to a supervisor.