Assistant Market Manager

Brookshire Grocery Company•Quitman, 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 in training and developing partners, scheduling and directing work, reviewing sales and operating data, and managing inventory. The position also helps maintain product quality, food safety, store standards, and department performance. Work is generally performed in a retail store and involves frequent exposure to cold, wet or slippery conditions, sharp equipment, cleaning agents, and moderate to loud noise. The role requires standing or walking continuously and may involve lifting up to 75 pounds. Flexible scheduling, including nights, weekends, and holidays, is required.

Requirements

Minimum age of 18; 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, and sharp tools such as saws, meat grinders, knives, and box cutters.
Ability to use non-precision and precision hand tools.
Ability to work effectively with fellow partners and promote a team environment.
Effective written and verbal communication with customers and partners.
Ability to work flexible schedules, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
Ability to meet the role’s physical demands, including continuous standing or walking, frequent bending and handling, and lifting or maneuvering objects up to 75 pounds.
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 and may review profit and loss, sales, shrink, and labor data with the department manager.
Contribute indirectly to 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 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.
Organize coolers and freezers 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 working 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.