Beer/Wine Leader

Weis Markets•Fogelsville, PA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The Beer/Wine Leader is responsible for managing the department by adjusting orders to meet customer demands while maintaining freshness and minimizing shrink. This role involves promoting excellent customer relations, operating scanning equipment and cash registers, and ensuring accuracy during transactions. The leader is also responsible for scheduling department associates, conducting on-the-job training, recognizing and rewarding associate performance, and following all store and legal guidelines regarding the sale of alcohol. Additionally, the role includes verifying deliveries, contacting vendors, inspecting products, enforcing department practices for receiving and stocking, removing out-of-code items, applying proper stocking techniques, ensuring merchandise is saleable with correct prices and signs, and storing excess merchandise according to guidelines. The Beer/Wine Leader may also be responsible for unloading deliveries, baling cardboard, and general sanitation within the department, ensuring work areas and equipment meet health and OSHA requirements. Cooperation with co-workers and supervisors is essential for the smooth function of the department and store. The role also requires continuous improvement of job performance and utilization of all company-provided Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). The Beer/Wine Leader may be called upon to assist in other departments.

Requirements

High school education or general education degree (GED).
Preferably two (2) years or more retail grocery experience with one (1) year in a Grocery department.
Candidates must be at least 21 years of age to work within the Beer and Wine Cafe.

Responsibilities

Manages department by adjusting orders to meet customer demands while maintaining freshness and minimizing shrink.
Promotes excellent customer relations by instilling positive customer focused behavior with associates.
Smiles and greets customers, answers customer questions and helps resolve customer issues promptly in a polite and professional manner.
Focuses on continuous improvement in all areas of the department and makes changes to ensure progress.
Operates the scanning equipment and cash register.
Performs all related check out procedures including properly and efficiently bagging merchandise and placing merchandise in customer’s cart.
Maintains accuracy during the transaction, ensuring the customer is charged for all items and appropriate funds are collected.
Maintains proper security measures and cash drawer accounting procedures, avoiding overages and/or shortages.
Schedules all department associates and determines work assignments to effectively utilize their skills and abilities.
Regularly conducts on-the-job training efforts for department.
Recognizes and rewards associate performance.
Follows all store and legal guidelines regarding sale of alcohol, as well as other products at the register.
Verifies all deliveries against invoices.
Contacts vendors as needed to request product or service to meet customer demands.
Inspects all products and supplies upon delivery, noting any shortages or overages.
Enforces and follows department practices regarding receiving, dating and stocking product to ensure quality, accuracy and proper rotation.
Removes out-of-code items.
Applies proper stocking techniques to ensure products are properly located on shelves, rotated and within easy customer reach.
Ensures merchandise is in saleable condition with correct prices and signs.
Stores excess merchandise according to backroom organization guidelines and 5S standards.
Follows company guidelines for merchandising product and utilizes incremental displays to drive sales.
May unload deliveries through operation of a power jack or hand jack if properly trained.
May assist with baling cardboard or other related duties (if properly trained).
Responsible for general sanitation in the department.
Follows cleaning schedules and department guidelines to ensure that work areas, equipment, counters, display cases, etc. are well maintained, clean and meet all health and OSHA requirements.
Disposes of trash properly.
Ensures smooth function of department and store by cooperating with co-workers and supervisors.
Responsible to continuously improve job performance.
Responsible for utilization of all company provided Personal Protected Equipment (PPE).
May also be called upon to assist in other departments.