Meat Manager

Weis Markets • Plains, PA

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About The Position

The Meat Manager oversees the meat department’s operations, customer service, merchandising, inventory, product quality, food safety, sanitation, and associate supervision. The manager promotes positive customer-focused behavior, handles customer orders and special requests, and ensures products are cut, trimmed, packaged, priced, and displayed to meet customer needs and company standards.

The role develops merchandising plans and displays, coordinates with other departments and store management, schedules and trains associates, and manages inventory, deliveries, expenses, labor costs, and product losses. The Meat Manager maintains organized and secure backroom and receiving areas, ensures product freshness and rotation, and follows food-safety, personal-safety, health, and OSHA requirements. The position supervises department associates and may assume leadership of the building when store management is absent. The manager may also assist in other departments or with related store duties.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Minimum of 3 years of management experience in a retail, restaurant, or supermarket environment.
• Ability to perform the essential duties satisfactorily, with or without accommodation.
• Ability to follow food-safety, personal-safety, health, and OSHA requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Associate or bachelor’s degree in a business-related or food-service-related field.
• Meat management experience.

Responsibilities

• Promote excellent customer relations and continuous improvement within the department.
• Take customer orders, determine customer preferences, cut and trim products, and prepare orders promptly.
• Develop localized merchandising plans and displays, coordinate cross-merchandising with other departments and store management, and monitor competitors.
• Schedule, train, recognize, and delegate work to Meat associates; participate in performance reviews and new-hire interviews; use the Learning Management System.
• Manage inventory and orders to meet customer demand; maintain organized product storage and replenish shelves, prioritizing specials and high-velocity items.
• Check department deliveries and invoices, support unloading and product movement, and follow receiving, dating, rotation, and restocking practices.
• Monitor product freshness and quality; maintain required logs; remove and record unsaleable or out-of-code products according to company procedures.
• Control department expenses, labor costs, damages, spoilage, and shrink; ensure associates follow company recipes for prepared products.
• Keep cases stocked, attractive, correctly priced, and signed; answer customer questions, make suggestions, and fulfill future orders and special requests.
• Grind and cut certain meats and poultry as needed; weigh and wrap merchandise and apply accurate price-and-weight labels.
• Follow food and personal safety requirements when handling products and using kitchen tools; use company-provided personal protective equipment.
• Maintain department sanitation and clean work areas, equipment, counters, and display cases; follow cleaning schedules and properly dispose of trash and bone cans.
• Maintain backroom and receiving-area security and organization using 5S procedures; assist with cardboard baling or related duties when trained.
• Cooperate with co-workers and superiors to support smooth department and store operations; continuously improve job performance.
• Supervise department associates and may assume total building leadership in the absence of store management.
• Assist in other departments when called upon.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: High school or GED