Prepared Food Lead

Walmart•Chino, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Prepared Foods and Café Department Lead, you will drive sales in your area and supervise your team of hourly associates who create and serve meals to our members, aiming to give them more of what they love, for less. You will model expertise in Prepared Foods and Café and work collaboratively with other team leaders to ensure the total club meets the member’s expectations. This role involves leading a team, maintaining in-depth knowledge of business operations, leveraging digital tools, driving business results, and acting as a talent ambassador. The position also emphasizes compliance with company policies, promoting ethics and integrity, leading and participating in teams, respecting individuals, acting with integrity, serving customers and members, and striving for excellence.

Requirements

6 months experience in a fresh production department or 6 months experience supervising a team.
Successfully complete all job required trainings and assessments within a prescribed time period if the position is received.
Must be 18 years of age or older.

Nice To Haves

Supervising a team.
Food Handler Certification (Food Safety) - Certification.

Responsibilities

Supervise the team within all prepared foods departments (e.g., café, rotisserie, prepared foods) by facilitating rotations through different fresh areas and managing members' needs.
Deliver on the business plan and contribute to the overall success of your club.
Communicate the goals of the department, execute company programs, adhere to policies, and advocate for the member, the associate, and the company.
Maintain an in-depth knowledge of business on the floor and backroom operations by ensuring the prepared foods area meets company and regulatory standards for quality, inventory, production, sanitation, equipment usage, safety, and compliance.
Manage seasonality in terms of production, understanding new products, recipes, processes, and production specifications, prioritizing time between areas.
Collaborate with associates and third parties, ensuring the team has resources to do their job effectively, sharing knowledge, and training the team.
Leverage digital tools to plan for and drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement.
Utilize handheld technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, training, and product quality, and adopt new tools and encourage others to use them.
Drive the business results, ensuring commitment to operational excellence, planning for profitability, maintaining a neat, clean, and safe work area in the prepared foods area.
Ensure appropriate staffing levels and accurate audit and compliance standards.
Produce and display merchandise according to the merchandise layout plan.
Engage with other departments and third-party business partners (e.g., maintenance personnel, suppliers, equipment vendors) to ensure operational continuity.
Teach and train the team by identifying training needs, providing and developing necessary skills to deliver high-quality products to the members, encouraging career growth for team members, and sourcing new talent internally and externally to work on the team.
Develop, communicate, and implement processes and practices to meet business needs by collaborating with managers, coworkers, customers, and other business partners, analyzing and applying information from multiple sources, monitoring progress and results, and identifying and addressing improvement opportunities.
Demonstrate, promote, and support compliance with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity by explaining, guiding, and demonstrating how to apply these in executing business processes and practices, implementing related action plans, using the Open Door Policy, and assisting management with correcting ethical and compliance issues and problems.
Lead and participate in teams by using and sharing resources, information, and tools, determining customer needs and business priorities, coordinating and executing work assignments, providing advice, feedback, and support to ensure timelines and work quality are achieved, and modeling and helping others with how to adapt to change or new challenges.
Embrace differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences, create a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging, and create opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform, helping to attract the best talent.
Work as a team, build strong and trusting relationships, and communicate with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence.
Strengthen the team by helping, developing, and mentoring others, and recognizing others' contributions and accomplishments.
Maintain and promote the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, model the Walmart values to support and foster our culture, hold oneself and others accountable, and support Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around us.
Act in a selfless manner and be consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent.
Deliver results while putting the customer first.
Make decisions based on reliable information, balance short and long-term priorities, and consider how own work impacts the team's ability to deliver on our purpose for all stakeholders.
Display curiosity and a desire to learn, take calculated risks, and demonstrate courage and resilience.
Drive continuous improvements, be open to and use new technologies and skills, and support others through change.

Benefits

Competitive pay
Performance-based bonus awards
Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage
Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance
Paid time off benefits include PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting
PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes
Short-term and long-term disability
Company discounts
Military Leave Pay
Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
Live Better U (company paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities, covering high school completion to bachelor's degrees, English Language Learning, and short-form certificates; tuition, books, and fees completely paid for by Walmart)