Assistant Prepared Foods Team Lead - Earth Fare Christiansburg
About The Position
The Assistant Prepared Foods Team Leader manages the prepared foods department in the Team Leader’s absence. The role oversees preparation and presentation of ready-to-eat meals, customer service, and a team of deli clerks and cooks. It supports the delivery of a high-quality, fresh, and appealing prepared-food selection while maintaining department quality, cleanliness, safety, and organization. As an Earth Fare Team Leader, this role models the company’s Mission, Conviction, and Purpose, follows departmental standard operating procedures, and helps meet or exceed financial goals for gross profit, shrink, sales, labor, and overhead. The assistant also supports overall store operations as a key holder.
Requirements
- Knowledge of food service industry trends, allergies, and specialized dietary terms such as gluten-free, vegan, and vegetarian.
- Understanding of food safety and sanitation, and proper use of kitchen utensils and equipment.
- Proven success managing shrink, sales, gross profit, and total overhead in a similar environment.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel and Outlook.
- Ability to learn the Falcon hand-held computer scanner.
- Leadership experience managing a team of 10 or more people.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
- Ability to bend, reach, stoop, kneel, and squat.
- Ability to push, pull, and maneuver heavy loads.
- Ability to stand for extended periods.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, customer-service-focused environment and tolerate brief exposure to extreme cold and heat.
Nice To Haves
- Perishable experience.
- OSHA ServSafe Certification.
Responsibilities
- Communicate Earth Fare’s vision, standard operating procedures, merchandising guidelines, and financial goals to team members.
- Emphasize customer service, safety, and sanitation.
- Interview, select, train, and support team members.
- Act as a key holder to support overall store operations.
- Supervise and participate in the production of in-house prepared foods.
- Ensure proper presentation and display of quality premade items and maintain high standards of quality control.
- Order and receive deliveries.
- Schedule team members.
- Review daily and weekly sales and movement reports, shrink reports, and emails, and respond accordingly.
- Conduct monthly department inventory.
- Identify opportunities to reduce expenses.
- Develop and maintain an attractive sales floor in accordance with Earth Fare merchandising guidelines.
- Maintain the cleanliness, sanitation, and organization of department fixtures, storage, workstations, freezers, and coolers.
- Help manage departmental financial performance, including gross profit, shrink, sales, labor, and overhead.
Benefits
- Health insurance for full-time employees.
- Vision insurance for full-time employees.
- Dental insurance for full-time employees.
- 401(k) and retirement planning.
- Paid time off.
- 20% store discount and discounted hot bar and salad bar.
- Flexible scheduling.
- Supportive working environment.
- Support, tools, and knowledge to develop in the current role, learn new skills, and pursue advancement opportunities.
- Encouragement to participate in community partnerships and events.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
