Assistant Produce Manager

Brookshire Grocery Company•Weatherford, TX

12d•Onsite

About The Position

The Assistant Produce Manager maintains stock levels and the quality of produce and floral products in accordance with Company standards. The role works with produce personnel to promote department sales, profits, and customer service. In conjunction with upper management, the Assistant Produce Manager helps train and develop partners and schedule, plan, assign, and direct work. The position supports upper management with reviewing historical sales, advertising, and promotion data and co-manages inventory to maintain satisfactory in-stock levels. It may also review profit and loss, sales, shrink, and labor data with the department manager. The role helps maintain and improve sales performance, financial results, public relations, product quality, and work standards. Duties include inspecting products for quality and food safety, following product-origin labeling requirements, promoting sales through suggestive selling and appealing displays, cutting and trimming products, maintaining display conditions, checking and unloading truck inventory, and ensuring accurate ordering and paperwork. The Assistant Produce Manager also serves customers and helps maintain a clean, safe, and sanitary workplace and shopping environment. Work is generally performed in a retail store, with frequent exposure to extreme cold and occasional exposure to wet or slippery conditions, cleaning agents, and outside weather. The position requires flexible scheduling, including nights, weekends, and holidays, and attendance at work.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED and one or more years 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 produce department operations.
Intermediate knowledge of in-store ordering machines and inventory management processes.
Intermediate knowledge of scheduling software systems.
Ability to operate a manual or electric pallet jack.
Ability to safely operate and maintain department equipment.
Ability to handle objects gently to avoid damage to items, people, vehicles, and property.
Ability to use an alphanumeric keyboard and precision and non-precision hand tools.
Ability to safely work with sharp objects such as knives and box cutters.
Ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced environment.
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 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 to a supervisor.
Partners must be at least 21 years old to drive for Company business under the BGC Business Driver Policy.
Continuously use close and distance vision, depth perception, or the ability to focus; stand or walk; use hands for reaching, touching, or handling; and push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 40 pounds.
Frequently bend, kneel, or squat and talk or hear; occasionally push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 75 pounds and climb, balance, stoop, or crawl.
Attendance at work is required.

Responsibilities

Work with upper management to train and develop partners and to 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.
May review profit and loss, sales, shrink, and labor data with the department manager.
Help maintain and improve sales performance, financial results, public relations, product quality, and work standards.
Inspect products for quality control and food safety and follow governmental product-origin labeling requirements.
Promote product sales through suggestive selling and appealing product displays.
Cut and trim products and prepare and display them to ensure high-quality presentation and appearance.
Maintain stock conditions on produce and floral display racks, tables, and shelves.
Check truck inventory, unload products, and ensure accuracy of inventory, product ordering, and related paperwork.
Greet customers, answer questions, and respond to complaints 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 warning signs or devices when reasonably possible, and report hazards that cannot be immediately remedied to a supervisor.