Assistant Produce Manager

Albertsons Companies • Lucas, TX

17d

About The Position

The Assistant Produce Manager supports the Produce Manager in overseeing daily produce department operations, maintaining product freshness and quality, providing excellent customer service, and ensuring food safety and sanitation standards are consistently followed. The role assists with leading produce associates, coordinating stocking and merchandising, managing inventory, controlling shrink, and keeping the department fresh, full, clean, organized, and customer-ready.

The position combines hands-on produce work with customer service, associate leadership, merchandising, inventory management, shrink control, sanitation, and daily operational responsibilities. The Assistant Produce Manager works throughout the produce department, including the sales floor, displays, preparation areas, coolers, storage areas, backroom, and receiving areas. The position may take an active leadership role in department operations when the Produce Manager is unavailable.

Requirements

• Strong customer service and leadership skills.
• Effective communication, coaching, organization, and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong attention to product freshness, quality, presentation, and sanitation.
• Ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities in a fast-paced retail environment.
• Ability to work independently while providing direction and support to others.
• Ability to learn produce ordering, inventory, receiving, rotation, preparation, and merchandising procedures.
• Ability to recognize product quality concerns and take appropriate action.
• Ability to safely operate approved department and material-handling equipment after proper training.
• Ability to follow established food safety and sanitation requirements.
• Dependable attendance and punctuality.
• Ability to stand and walk for extended periods and to bend, stoop, kneel, reach, lift, carry, push, pull, and perform repetitive movements throughout the shift.
• Ability to safely lift and move produce cases, boxes, displays, supplies, and department inventory as required.
• Ability to perform repetitive stocking, trimming, preparation, rotation, and merchandising activities.
• Ability to safely use carts, pallet jacks, ladders, step stools, and other approved equipment after proper training.
• Ability to work in refrigerated areas, coolers, wet areas, and varying temperatures.

Nice To Haves

• Previous produce, grocery, food service, merchandising, retail, or leadership experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assist with overseeing daily produce department operations and workflow.
• Coordinate stocking, replenishment, rotation, trimming, preparation, and merchandising activities.
• Monitor produce freshness, quality, appearance, and availability; inspect products and remove unsellable merchandise.
• Maintain produce displays, wet racks, refrigerated cases, tables, promotional areas, pricing, signage, labels, and product identification.
• Provide courteous customer service, help customers locate products, answer questions, and assist with selections and special requests.
• Help coordinate associate assignments, breaks, stocking responsibilities, department coverage, and daily priorities.
• Provide daily direction and support to produce associates; assist with training, coaching, and monitoring completed work.
• Monitor inventory and assist with ordering produce and department supplies based on sales, promotions, seasonal demand, and customer needs.
• Receive, inspect, organize, rotate, and store merchandise; maintain organized coolers, storage areas, and back-stock.
• Help minimize shrink through appropriate ordering, handling, rotation, preparation, inventory management, and removal of unsellable products.
• Build and maintain promotional, seasonal, and advertised displays and adjust displays based on availability, condition, sales, and customer demand.
• Maintain required inventory, temperature, sanitation, and other department records; assist with inventory counts and product-control activities.
• Maintain clean and sanitary preparation areas, coolers, cases, tables, equipment, floors, drains, and workspaces.
• Follow and reinforce food safety, sanitation, workplace safety, loss prevention, product-handling, and temperature-control procedures.
• Assist with department opening and closing procedures as assigned.
• Identify and communicate product, equipment, staffing, inventory, operational, food safety, sanitation, or temperature concerns to the Produce Manager or store leadership.
• Support the Produce Manager with department planning and daily operational decisions; lead department operations when the Produce Manager is unavailable.
• Perform additional department responsibilities as assigned based on business needs.

Benefits

• Competitive wages paid weekly.
• Access to up to 50% of earned wages before payday through the company's partnership with Stream.
• Associate discounts.
• Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates, including medical, dental, and 401(k).
• Time off, including vacation, holidays, and sick pay, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Training, career growth, and development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed