(USA) Prepared Food Lead - temporary

Walmart•San Antonio, TX

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. 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. You will be responsible for supervising the team within all prepared foods departments (e.g., café, rotisserie, and prepared foods) by facilitating rotations through different fresh areas and managing member needs to deliver on the business plan and contribute to the overall success of your club. This role involves maintaining an in-depth knowledge of business operations, ensuring the prepared foods area meets company and regulatory standards for quality, inventory, production, sanitation, equipment usage, safety, and compliance. You will manage seasonality in terms of production, understand new products, recipes, processes, and production specifications, and prioritize time between areas. Collaboration with associates and third parties is key to ensuring the team has the resources to do their job effectively, sharing knowledge and training the team. You will leverage digital tools to plan for and drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement. This includes utilizing hand-held technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, training, and product quality, and adopting new tools while encouraging others to use them. You will drive business results, ensuring commitment to operational excellence, planning for profitability, maintaining a neat, clean, and safe work area, ensuring appropriate staffing levels, and accurate audit and compliance standards. Producing and displaying merchandise according to the merchandise layout plan and engaging with other departments and third-party business partners (e.g., maintenance personnel, suppliers, equipment vendors) are also crucial for operational continuity. You will teach and train the team by identifying training needs, providing and developing necessary skills to deliver high-quality products, encouraging career growth, and sourcing new talent internally and externally. Developing, communicating, and implementing 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 are essential. You will also demonstrate, promote, and support compliance with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity. Leading and participating 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 are part of this role. You will embrace differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences, creating a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging, creating opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform, and helping to attract the best talent. Strengthening the team by helping, developing, and mentoring others, recognizing others' contributions and accomplishments, and acting in a selfless manner, being humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent are key aspects of this position. You will deliver results while putting the customer first, make decisions based on reliable information, balance short- and long-term priorities, and consider how your work impacts the team's ability to deliver on our purpose for all stakeholders. You will display curiosity and a desire to learn, take calculated risks, and demonstrate courage and resilience, driving continuous improvements, being open to and using new technologies and skills, and supporting others through change.

Requirements

6 months experience in a fresh production department or 6 months experience supervising a team.
Must be 18 years of age or older.
I acknowledge that the position for which I am applying requires me to successfully complete all job-required trainings and assessments within a prescribed time period if I receive the position.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Supervises the team within all prepared foods departments (e.g., café, rotisserie, and prepared foods) by facilitating rotations through different fresh areas and managing members needs to deliver on the business plan and contribute to the overall success of your club.
Maintains 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.
Manages seasonality in terms of production, understanding new products, recipes, processes, and production specifications, prioritizing time between areas.
Collaborates with associates and third parties ensuring the team has resources to do their job effectively, sharing knowledge and training the team.
Leverages digital tools to plan for and drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement.
Utilizes hand held technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, training, and product quality and adopting new tools and encouraging others to use them.
Drives the business results ensuring commitment to operational excellence, planning for profitability, maintaining a neat, clean, and safe work area in the prepared foods area, ensuring appropriate staffing levels, and accurate audit and compliance standards.
Produces and displays merchandise according to the merchandise layout plan.
Engages with other departments and third-party business partners (e.g., maintenance personnel, suppliers, equipment vendors) to ensure operational continuity.
Teaches and trains 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.
Develops, communicates, and implements 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.
Demonstrates, promotes, and supports 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.
Leads and participates 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.
Embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences, creates a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging, creates opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform, and helps to attract the best talent.
Works as a team, builds strong and trusting relationships, communicates with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence.
Strengthens the team by helping, developing, and mentoring others, recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.
Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, models the Walmart values to support and foster our culture, holds oneself and others accountable, and supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around us.
Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent.
Delivers results while putting the customer first.
Makes decisions based on reliable information, balances short- and long-term priorities, and considers how own work impacts the team's ability to deliver on our purpose for all stakeholders.
Displays curiosity and a desire to learn, takes calculated risks, and demonstrates courage and resilience.
Drives continuous improvements, is open to and uses new technologies and skills, and supports others through change.

Benefits

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.
You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
Live Better U is a company paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment.
Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

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