Food Captain

Circle K • Minneapolis, MN

22h • Onsite

About The Position

Circle K is seeking a Food Captain for Store 2746468 located at 620 Central Avenue NE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414. This role is a full-time position with day shift availability. The Food Captain acts as the in-store food category expert, ensuring all food operational execution maximizes sales and reduces waste. They are responsible for training, teaching, and coaching store associates on various aspects of food operations, including production, replenishment, ordering, organization, sanitization, and customer service. The Food Captain also serves as the primary resource for employees regarding food products and services, plans and executes food sampling, and leads in-store training for new Foodservice programs. They are expected to follow up with refresher training, ensure proper stocking and rotation of food items using FIFO, and display products according to planograms. The role involves ordering food products to minimize out-of-stocks and shrink, monitoring shrink to maximize foodservice profit, and collaborating with BUQAS training personnel to ensure effective Foodservice training programs. Adherence to food safety practices and procedures, conducting needs analysis, and operating within budgeted expectations are also key aspects of the position. Circle K's mission is to make people's lives a little easier every day, supported by a global family of 130,000 people across over 16,000 stores and 26 countries. The company is committed to employee growth and development, fostering a culture of pride in its people, service, and achievements.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalate
• Minimum 2 years experience working in Fast Moving Consumer Goods retail and/or Foodservice industry
• Experience in training, leadership, team building
• Skills in collaboration, cooperation, communication and organization
• Food Manager Certification, Approved certifications include ServSafe and NRFSP
• Strong communication skills in English, both verbally and written.
• Customer service-oriented / excellent customer service skills
• Consistently delivering within deadlines
• Communicates effectively (written and oral) with customers, management, associates, and vendors

Nice To Haves

• Education/instructional, or equivalent retail training experience
• Leading or supervisory experience desired
• French skills in Quebec Provinces

Responsibilities

• Food Category expert in store
• Ensures all food operational execution in store are followed to maximize sales and reduce waste.
• Train, teach and coach store associates on Food execution, production, replenishment, ordering, organization, sanitization and customer service
• Be the go-to person in store for employees with questions connected to food products and services
• Plan and execute food sampling for employees and customers
• Conduct and lead in store training, for store employees and operation teams on all new Foodservice programs, modeling an established train the trainer program
• Follow up with and conduct refresher training activities for store employees as needed
• Ensure foodservice areas are stocked and food rotated using FIFO method of food rotation
• Food items are displayed using current Planogram provided by your Business Unit
• Order or assist in ordering the food products to lower Out Of Stocks and improve Shrink
• Monitor shrink while improving sales, to maximize foodservice profit
• Identify, suggest, train, and continuously collaborate with BUQAS training personnel, ensuring that the manager and store employee Foodservice training programs are delivered
• Food safety practices and procedures
• Conduct needs analysis and provide recommended actions based on BUQAS visits
• Operate within budgeted expectations

Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer
• The Company complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (the ADA) and all state and local disability laws.
• Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to a reasonable accommodation under the terms of the ADA and certain state or local laws as long as it does not impose an undue hardship on the Company.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees