Meat Manager

Chesters Market Inc • Depoe Bay, OR

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Meat Department Manager is responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating the daily operations of the Meat Department. This role involves meeting sales, gross, and labor goals, managing department scheduling, approving time cards, and overseeing staff recruitment, orientation, and training. The manager is also responsible for ensuring workplace safety and performing basic maintenance and repairs within the department. Key duties include receiving, storing, and issuing merchandise, stocking shelves, and preparing meat cuts for display.

Requirements

• Previous Department Manager, Supervisor, or equivalent experience
• Ability to pass a background check
• Intermediate knowledge and experience with computer systems
• Experience using office suites in a business setting, or equivalent education
• Ability to follow written instructions exactly
• Comfort performing monetary transactions
• Ability to communicate clearly with employees, customers, and vendors
• Strong organizational skills

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
• Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation, and personnel information systems.
• Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, and other office procedures and terminology.
• Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, and sales techniques.
• Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
• Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
• Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
• Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Negotiation — Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
• Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem solving and decision making.
• Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong.
• Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, vendors, government, and other external sources.
• Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, email, or in person.

Responsibilities

• Plan, direct, and coordinate daily operations of the Meat Department
• Meet sales, gross, and labor goals
• Department scheduling and time card approval
• Staff recruitment, orientation, and training
• Workplace safety
• Basic maintenance and repairs
• Receive, store, and issue sales floor merchandise
• Stock shelves, racks, cases, bins, and tables with merchandise
• Arrange merchandise displays to attract customers
• Identify and wrap cuts of meat using manual and mechanical methods
• Periodically take physical count of stock or check and mark merchandise
• Answer customers' questions about merchandise and advise customers on merchandise selection
• Clean display cases, shelves, and aisles
• Compare merchandise invoices to items actually received to ensure that shipments are correct
• Wrap, weigh, label, and price cuts of meat
• Prepare and place meat cuts and products on the display counter, so they will appear attractive and catch the shopper's eye
• Direct and coordinate activities of department production, pricing, and sales
• Review performance data and assess goal achievement to determine areas needing improvement
• Managing staff, overseeing work schedules, and assigning specific duties
• Establish and implement departmental policies, goals, objectives, and procedures
• Communicating issues with subordinates and superiors as necessary
• Determine staffing requirements, interview, hire and oversee training of new employees
• Work with other managers in planning and directing promotional activities
• Oversee the workplace safety in the Meat Department
• Knowledge of departmental mechanical systems, monitoring and basic maintenance of equipment

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance
• 401K Retirement Package with up to 4% employer match
• Paid Vacation and Personal Time
• Training and Scholarships up to $1,000 per term
• Premium Pay increase of .50¢/hour for all eligible employees working any hours on Saturday-Sunday, and weekdays before 6 am, or after 7 pm

What This Job Offers

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