0474 - Meat Manager

Albertsons Companies•Everett, WA

1d•$17 - $33•Onsite

About The Position

The Meat Manager directs the operation of the Meat Department, including supervising and training personnel. This role ensures customer service and product quality, freshness, safety, and selection. The manager champions company and division customer service programs, handles customer relations positively, and resolves complaints. They supervise the day-to-day functions of the meat department to achieve customer service, sales, and profit objectives. This includes motivating, directing, training, and participating in the hiring of meat department personnel, monitoring associate performance, and recommending personnel actions. The manager also schedules personnel to ensure adequate coverage and service levels while meeting budgetary objectives. Daily inspections of meat sections are conducted to ensure compliance with product quality, trimming, grinding, rotation, stocking, code date, sanitation, safety, and security standards. The role involves assisting with all meat department duties such as receiving, storage, cleaning, customer service, cutting, grinding, wrapping, packaging, and stocking. They implement promotional displays, control shrink and expenses, and accurately complete required paperwork and logs. Ordering, checking, receiving, and controlling inventory are key responsibilities to ensure adequate levels, product quality, and freshness, and to prevent the sale of out-of-code products. Periodic inventories, administrative paperwork, and accurate department record maintenance are also required, along with maintaining and organizing the meat department cooler and freezer. The manager ensures product quality, trimming, grinding, packaging, labeling, rotation, and wrapping standards are met, and proper merchandising of product through schematics, advertised items, signing procedures, and product flow monitoring. Compliance with retail labeling laws, federal and state regulations, and company policies is essential. The manager follows company policy in pricing and handling re-worked and reduced-to-clear items and complies with all health, food handling, and safety standards. Competitor analysis on prices, product variety, and merchandising procedures is conducted. Customer relations are handled by taking and filling special orders, making product suggestions, and engaging in suggestive selling. Cleanliness and sanitation of the sales floor, work area, freezer, cooler, equipment, and retail cases are ensured. Incoming calls are answered appropriately, and customer complaints are resolved and reported to the Store Director. Required training is attended. Knives, scales, steamers, display cases, saws, meat tenderizers, slicers, cubers, and wrapping equipment are maintained and cleaned. Emergency procedures for equipment and computer software malfunctions are assisted with. Associates are trained and instructed in proper work duties, and their performance is monitored and reported to the Store Director. Associate complaints are resolved and reported to the Store Director. Confidentiality concerning associates, store sales, and other company information is maintained. The role is responsible for performing all job duties and responsibilities safely, accurately, and with honesty and integrity. Other necessary and required duties may be assigned.

Requirements

Requires working knowledge of all job duties within the Meat Department including cutting, wrapping, steaming, grinding, cubing, tenderizing and customer service.
Requires strong communication skills, good leadership and interpersonal skills, the proven ability to manage people and the ability to maintain composure in dealing with customers and co-workers.
Requires knowledge of employment laws and workplace practices.
Requires a good understanding of company policies and Meat Department policies and procedures.
Requires the ability to judge and react to business activity.
Must have knowledge of product variety, standards, perishability, food safety, sanitation, labeling and department policies and procedures.
Frequently reaches, lifts, stacks and maneuvers objects of varying dimensions and weights up to approximately 80 lbs.
Bends, stoops and reaches frequently and occasionally climbs ladders.
Pushes and pulls fully loaded hand trucks, high boys and pallet jacks.
Performs repetitious arm movement to prepare and package products.
Manual dexterity and good eye-hand coordination are necessary.
Must be able to operate meat cutting utensils and equipment.
Mental alertness is necessary to ensure safe and accurate completion of work activities.
Requires knowledge of basic mathematics and weights and measures.
Must have knowledge of taste, content and perishability of products, safety and sanitation procedures and department policies and procedures.
Operates computer software and electronic ordering devices to order products, plan sales, input inventory and schedules, and print labels.
Utilizes knives, saws, cutters, grinders and other cutting equipment.
Utilizes cleaning supplies and equipment.
Utilizes safety cutters.
Requires use of safety gloves.
Knowledge of profit and loss statements.
Will be required to work nights, weekends and holidays.
Good attendance is required.
Exposure to potential hazards exists with respect to cutting equipment and other work aids necessary to perform job duties.

Nice To Haves

The responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified may vary within each store and from store to store.

Responsibilities

Direct the operation of the Meat Department, including supervising and training personnel.
Ensure customer service and product quality, freshness, safety, and selection.
Champion company and division customer service programs to meet or exceed division customer service goals.
Handle customer relations in a positive manner, including effective resolution of customer complaints.
Supervise the day-to-day functions of the meat department to achieve customer service, sales, and profit objectives.
Supervise, motivate, direct, train, and participate in the hiring of meat department personnel.
Monitor associate performance and recommend personnel actions such as hiring, firing, layoff, and disciplinary actions.
Schedule personnel to ensure adequate coverage and service levels and to meet department budgetary objectives.
Conduct daily inspections of all meat sections and initiate corrective measures to ensure compliance with product quality and trimming and grinding procedures, rotate products, maintain in-stock conditions, code date standards, and sanitation, safety, and security requirements.
Assist with all meat department duties such as receiving, storage, cleaning, customer service, cutting, grinding, wrapping, and packaging and stocking.
Implement effective promotional and seasonal displays.
Control shrink and expenses.
Accurately complete and monitor daily log sheet, purchase report, and sales and labor and other required paperwork and logs.
Maintain records on ad items movement.
Order, check, receive, and control inventory to ensure adequate and proper inventory level, product quality and freshness and to prevent the sale of out-of-code products.
Take periodic inventories, process administrative paperwork and maintain accurate department records.
Maintain and organize the meat department cooler and freezer.
Ensure that product quality, trimming, grinding, packaging, labeling, rotation and wrapping standards are met.
Ensure proper merchandising of product by understanding and implementing schematics, merchandising of advertised items, proper signing procedures and monitoring product flow.
Comply with retail labeling laws, federal and state regulations and Company policies.
Follow Company policy in pricing and handling re-worked and reduced-to-clear items.
Comply with all federal, state and local health, and food handling and safety standards.
Check competitors for comparisons on prices, product variety and merchandising procedures.
Handle customer relations, assist customers by taking and filling special orders, make product suggestions and engage in suggestive selling.
Ensure cleanliness and sanitation of sales floor and work area, freezer and cooler, equipment, and retail cases.
Answer and respond to incoming calls appropriately.
Receive and appropriately resolve customer complaints and report to the Store Director as appropriate.
Attend required training.
Maintain and clean knives, scales, steamers, display cases, saws, meat tenderizers, slicers, cubers and wrapping equipment.
Assist with implementing emergency procedures in the event of equipment and computer software malfunctions.
Ensure that all associates are trained and instructed in the proper performance of work duties.
Maintain confidentiality concerning associates, store sales and other Company information.
Perform all job duties and responsibilities safely, accurately and with honesty and integrity.
Perform other necessary and required duties.