Coffee Shop Department Manager

Hy-Vee, Inc.•Des Moines, IA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Coffee Shop Department Manager is responsible for establishing department standards for customer service, employee relations, cleanliness, sanitation, professional appearance, and overall profitability. This role coordinates the delivery of fresh, high-quality products at competitive retail prices. The manager is expected to maintain a positive company image by providing courteous, friendly, and efficient customer service to both customers and team members. Key responsibilities include fostering a friendly and fun atmosphere, ensuring prompt and efficient service, and actively engaging with customers. The manager also oversees all aspects of department operations, including recruiting, hiring, training, supervising, disciplining, and evaluating employees. They determine department goals, create weekly work schedules, establish daily work plans, inspect displays, order products, resolve customer issues, manage pricing, handle bookkeeping, analyze sales trends, conduct inventory, and plan promotions. Additionally, the manager ensures proper product storage, equipment maintenance, and adherence to company guidelines and policies.

Requirements

Ability to solve practical problems; variety of variables with limited standardization; interpret instructions.
Ability to do arithmetic calculations involving fractions, decimals, and percentages.
Possess the ability to compose original correspondence; interpret written work instructions; interview job applicants; follow technical manuals and have increased contact with people.
High school or equivalent experience from on-the-job training and sanitation courses.
Over one year of related work experience.
Must be physically able to exert up to 100 pounds of force (shared team lifting) occasionally; exert up to 50 pounds of force frequently; and exert up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
Visual requirements include vision from less than 20 inches to more than 20 feet with or without correction, depth perception, color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors), and field of vision.
Must be able to perform the following physical activities: Climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions.

Responsibilities

Maintains a positive attitude; creates an atmosphere of friendliness and fun through flexibility and teamwork.
Generates a friendly atmosphere by encouraging employees to greet and speak to customers; providing prompt, courteous, and efficient service to customers and sets a good example.
Sets the department standards for customer service, employee relations, cleanliness, sanitation, professional appearance and overall profitability.
Smiles and greets customers in a friendly manner, whether the encounter takes place in the employee’s designated department or elsewhere in the store.
Makes an effort to learn customers’ names and to address them by name whenever possible.
Assists customers by: escorting them to the products they’re looking for, securing products that are out of reach, loading or unloading heavy items, making note of and passing along customer suggestions or requests, performing other tasks in every way possible to enhance the shopping experience.
Answers the telephone promptly and provides friendly, helpful service to customers who call including taking product orders.
Recruits, hires, trains, supervises, disciplines, and evaluates all department employees.
Determines department goals with store director.
Determines weekly work schedule and establishes a daily work plan for the department.
Inspects signage and displays for quality and quantity of merchandise and orders product for replenishment.
Handles and satisfies customer issues.
Communicates with employees regarding sales and ideas.
Figures retail pricing and ensures correct pricing.
Extends invoices, posts invoices, and oversees department bookkeeping procedures.
Analyzes weekly and monthly sales and trends and compares to actuals, prepares ad projections, and writes ads.
Converts inventory of the department.
Plans displays, promotions, and determines pre-orders.
Ensures proper temperatures and storage procedures are maintained to guarantee freshness and control shrink of product.
Understands and troubleshoots equipment and ensures maintenance is performed.
Ensures store appearance and equipment are maintained in a consistent manner.
Completes and implements, successfully, from Advanced Store Training.
Maintains consistent speed of service to the customer by ensuring all store-staffing requirements are met.
Maintains strict adherence to department and company guidelines related to personal hygiene and dress.
Adheres to company policies and individual store guidelines.
Reports to work when scheduled and on time.
Ensures pricing is competitive in the market area.
Attends meetings and seminars and participates in continuing education.
Fills displays and works in the sales area.
Unloads trucks, checks in delivered merchandise and places product in appropriate storage area.
Performs departmental duties as needed.
Assists in other areas of store as needed.
Performs other job related duties and special projects as required.