Meat Manager
Albertsons•Fort Worth, TX
•Onsite
About The Position
The Meat Manager is responsible for leading all meat department operations, including product quality, food safety, team leadership, merchandising, inventory control, and financial performance. This role ensures compliance with company standards and regulatory requirements while delivering exceptional customer service and achieving sales and profitability goals.
Requirements
- Leadership, training, coaching, and motivation of meat department associates
- Creating effective work schedules
- Providing performance feedback, coaching, and corrective action
- Training associates in cutting, wrapping, food safety, and customer service
- Overseeing daily meat department operations (cutting, trimming, grinding, packaging, merchandising)
- Ensuring quality, freshness, and presentation standards
- Managing inventory levels, forecasting, ordering, and product rotation
- Ensuring equipment maintenance, cleaning, and safe operation
- Ensuring compliance with food safety, sanitation, and health regulations
- Maintaining temperature logs, sanitation schedules, and documentation
- Ensuring proper handling, storage, labeling, and rotation of meat products
- Preparing for and addressing audits
- Driving sales through merchandising, seasonal programs, and promotions
- Monitoring margins, shrink, spoilage, and markdowns
- Analyzing sales and production trends
- Controlling department expenses
- Delivering exceptional customer service
- Resolving customer concerns
- Ensuring product availability, quality, and freshness
- Maintaining a clean, organized, and customer-ready department
Responsibilities
- Lead, train, coach, and motivate meat department associates to maintain high performance and engagement
- Create effective work schedules that align with business needs and labor guidelines
- Provide ongoing performance feedback, coaching, and corrective action as needed
- Ensure associates are properly trained in cutting, wrapping, food safety, and customer service
- Oversee daily operations including cutting, trimming, grinding, packaging, and merchandising of meat products
- Ensure adherence to quality, freshness, and presentation standards
- Manage inventory levels, forecasting, ordering, and product rotation
- Ensure equipment is properly maintained, cleaned, and operating safely
- Ensure strict compliance with food safety, sanitation, and health regulations
- Maintain accurate temperature logs, sanitation schedules, and documentation
- Ensure proper handling, storage, labeling, and rotation of all meat products
- Prepare for and address internal and external audits
- Drive sales through effective merchandising, seasonal programs, and promotional execution
- Monitor margins, shrink, spoilage, and markdowns to meet financial targets
- Analyze sales and production trends to optimize labor and product mix
- Control department expenses and contribute to overall store profitability
- Deliver exceptional customer service and resolve escalated customer concerns
- Ensure product availability, quality, and freshness meet customer expectations
- Maintain a clean, organized, and customer‑ready department at all times
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
