Deli Manager Trainee - Highland

Strack & Van Til • Highland, IN

21h • Onsite

About The Position

The Deli Manager Trainee is responsible for scheduling all departmental associates, overseeing their training, evaluating their work, rewarding and recognizing their performance, and delegating their work assignments in a manner that most effectively utilizes their talents and abilities while maximizing profits. This role involves developing and implementing merchandising plans, including creating attractive displays, merchandising new items, sales items, and promotional tie-ins, in order to meet the sales and profit objectives of the store and the department. The manager trainee is also responsible for proper inventory levels, preparing, maintaining, and tracking records to calculate gross profits according to company guidelines. Furthermore, the position controls department costs by monitoring and improving operations and practices as needed, by controlling labor, and by reducing losses due to shrinkage and pilferage. Maintaining accurate department records on all important matters, including associate performance, recognition, and discipline, is also a key duty.

Requirements

• Knowledge of all aspects of Deli operations
• Proven skills in taking appropriate and decisive action to meet budget expectations
• Must be able to work a variety of shifts including nights and weekends
• Excellent communicate skills with vendors, customers and employees
• Ability to reach, bend, stoop, and lift up to 40 lbs
• 1 year minimum experience as a manager in food service
• Must possess excellent communication skills (both oral and written), good leadership and interpersonal skills.
• The ability to get along with customers, vendors, suppliers and associates, and must be able to motivate and lead others

Responsibilities

• Schedules all departmental associates, oversees their training, evaluates their work, rewards and recognizes their performance and delegates their work assignments in a manner that most effectively utilizes their talents and abilities while maximizing profits
• Develops and implements merchandising plans, including creating attractive displays, merchandises new items, sales items and does promotional tie-ins, in order to meet the sales and profit objectives of the store and the department
• Responsible for proper inventory levels, prepares, maintains and tracks records to calculate gross profits according to company guidelines
• Controls department costs by monitoring and improving operations and practices as needed, by controlling labor and by reducing losses due to shrinkage and pilferage
• Maintains accurate department records on all important matters, including associate performance, recognition and discipline

What This Job Offers

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