Assistant Market Manager

Brookshire's•Lindale, TX

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Assistant Market Manager ensures market and seafood cases are kept 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. It supports upper management with training and developing partners, scheduling and directing work, reviewing sales and promotion data, and managing inventory. The position also helps maintain product quality, food safety, sales performance, financial results, and department standards in a retail-store environment.

Requirements

Must be at least 18 years old; 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, manual or electric pallet jacks, hazardous tools and equipment such as a bailer, and sharp tools 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 written and verbal form with customers and partners.
Ability to work flexible schedules, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
Continuously use close and distance vision, depth perception, or the ability to focus; continuously stand or walk; frequently use hands for reaching, touching, or handling; frequently bend, kneel, squat, or stoop; frequently push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 40 pounds; occasionally push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 75 pounds; and frequently talk and hear.
Attendance at work is required.

Nice To Haves

Prerequisite experience as a meatcutter, apprentice, and/or manager trainee 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.
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.
Check truck inventory, unload products, and ensure accurate inventory, product ordering, and related paperwork.
Cut, weigh, package, and label products, using appropriate tools and instruments.
Enforce quality-control and food-safety standards; 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 follow governmental product-origin labeling requirements.
Promote product sales through suggestive selling.
Greet customers, answer questions, and take orders by phone and in person with a friendly, service-oriented attitude.
Maintain a clean, safe, and sanitary work and shopping environment by following Company safety procedures.
Identify potential hazards, remedy them or place appropriate warning signs or devices when reasonably possible, and report hazards that cannot be immediately remedied to a supervisor.