Overnight Lead Team Member

About the position

As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you're provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family - take care of your career and your community! This position provides direction related to operations, processes, and conditions of their area. It involves planning, guiding, and empowering team members in the day-to-day operation of the department, setting an example for those in their department by modeling exceptional customer experience. The role requires the ability to help achieve department goals and influence peers to create a continued winning strategy.

Responsibilities

• Engaging peers to provide the best possible shopping experience for customers including an exceptional checkout experience.
• Communicating with team members and assigning daily work tasks.
• Mentoring and coaching other team members to ensure customer service and sales goals are exceeded.
• Supporting training new team members/cross-training high potential talent.
• Working with leadership on department schedule writing to focus on team member engagement.
• Ensuring freshness of products by closely monitoring execution of rotation and dating policies.
• Guiding the team in compliance with food safety standards and regulations.
• Leading team members to ensure ordering, receiving, stocking, pricing, and product display are completed.
• Creating an environment that supports the Meijer culture, including valuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
• Operating a register and cash handling when needed.
• Participating in period end inventories to help achieve goals.

Requirements

• Passion for customer service with total engagement that conveys approachability to customers and fellow team members.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Retail or other customer service experience preferred.
• Creative thinking skills.
• Ability to influence others.
• Ability to quickly build rapport and gain customer confidence.
• Ability to lift, carry, push, pull, bend and twist while handling product.
• Experience executing plans.
• Positive influence to create a strong team environment.
• Commitment to fostering an inclusive environment.

Benefits

• Weekly pay
• Scheduling flexibility
• Paid parental leave
• Paid education assistance
• Team member discount
• Development programs for advancement and career growth