Bulk Manager

Sprouts Farmers Market•Philadelphia, PA

11d•Onsite

About The Position

The Bulk Manager at Sprouts Farmers Market is responsible for overseeing the maintenance, packing, and stocking of all bulk foods featured at Sprouts. This role involves following the merchandising Bulk plan, ensuring the team properly packages and scales bulk items, fills bulk bins, and prepares, wraps, and prices bulk packages accurately and legibly. The manager is also responsible for ordering and maintaining inventory, rotating product using code dates, and adhering to the company’s cleaning and sanitation program. Additionally, they must oversee the department’s compliance with all company and governmental safety, health, Weights & Measures and COOL compliance regulations. The position requires providing a high level of customer service, ensuring the Bulk area is clean and orderly, and receiving, unloading, and stocking merchandise. A key aspect of this role is engaging and evaluating team members through coaching, feedback, and one-on-one development discussions, including making recommendations for merit increases and completing bi-annual performance reviews. The Bulk Manager will also attend and participate in in-store meetings, recruit and hire team members, and make promotion/transfer decisions in collaboration with the Store Manager. They must confidently exercise independent judgment to address Team Member concerns and take and document corrective actions when needed, including managing performance through coaching, counseling, progressive discipline, suspension, or termination in collaboration with business and HR partners. Ensuring maximum productivity and efficiency by creating and adjusting schedules and staffing levels is also a core responsibility. The manager will communicate standards, expectations, policy changes, and product knowledge to team members and lead a team that collaborates to deliver the finest quality of product, highest level of service, and the greatest customer experience. Finally, the role may involve serving as a Key Carrier for the store and/or acting as a Manager on Duty (MOD) as needed.

Requirements

Be at least 18 years of age
Have 1- 2 years of experience in a retail grocery environment
Have 1 year of managerial leadership experience
Be dependable and reliable
Ability to work flexible schedule that changes; including night, weekends, and holidays
Expected to know weekly ad items
Able to give customers direction of product location throughout the store
Does general housekeeping in the department
Must have the ability to work a flexible schedule that changes as the business changes, including nights, weekends, and holidays
Possess a working knowledge of personnel reports, margin reports, weekly sales numbers, and financial goals
Have and show outgoing and friendly behavior along with a positive attitude towards Team Members and customers
Able to move vertically/horizontally transferring product weighing up to 50 lbs., from 4” to 36”, for a distance up to 4 feet for up to 15 hours without mechanical assistance
Requires continuous standing for up to 4 hours, for a total of 8 hours per shift
Able to perform other related duties as assigned

Responsibilities

Overseeing the maintenance, packing, and stocking of all bulk foods
Following the merchandising Bulk plan
Ensuring your team is properly packaging and scaling bulk items, filling bulk bins, as well as preparing, wrapping, and pricing bulk packages accurately and legibly
Ordering and maintaining inventory, rotating product using code dates, and following the company’s cleaning and sanitation program
Overseeing the department’s compliance with all company and governmental safety, health, Weights & Measures and COOL compliance regulations
Communicating standards, expectations, policy changes, and product knowledge to team members
Providing a high level of customer service
Ensuring Bulk items are properly prepared, packaged and presented, and the Bulk area is clean and orderly at all times
Receiving, unloading, and stocking merchandise as needed throughout the day
Engaging and evaluating team members through coaching, feedback, and one-on-one development discussions, and make recommendations on merit increases via completing the bi-annual performance review process
Regularly attending and participating at in-store meetings
Recruiting, hiring and making promotion/transfer decisions in collaboration with the Store Manager
Confidently exercising independent judgment to address Team Member concerns
Taking and documenting corrective actions when needed, including collaboration with business and HR partners in managing performance to include coaching, counseling, progressive discipline, suspension, or termination when needed
Ensuring maximum productivity and efficiency by creating and adjusting schedules and staffing levels
Leading a team that collaborates to deliver the finest quality of product, highest level of service, and the greatest experience your customers will receive
Serving as a Key Carrier for the store and/or acting as a Manager on Duty (MOD) as needed

Benefits

Competitive pay
Sick time plan that you can use to support you or your immediate families health
Vacation accrual plan
Opportunities for career growth
15% discount for you and one other family member in your household on all purchases made at Sprouts
Flexible schedules
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
401(K) Retirement savings plan with a generous company match
Company paid life insurance
Contests and appreciation events throughout the year full of prizes, food and fun!
Bonus based on company and/or individual performance
Affordable benefit coverage, including medical, dental and vision
Health Savings Account with company match
Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
Company paid short-term disability coverage
Paid parental leave for both mothers and fathers
Paid holidays
DailyPay - if you’re hired as an eligible employee, you’ll be able to transfer the money you’ve already earned at no extra cost, and get it the next business day, for free.