(USA) Prepared Food Lead

Walmart•Riverdale, UT

1d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Prepared Foods and Café Department Lead, you will be responsible for driving sales and supervising a team of hourly associates who prepare and serve meals to members. This role requires modeling expertise in Prepared Foods and Café, collaborating with other team leaders to meet member expectations, and ensuring the department adheres to company and regulatory standards for quality, inventory, production, sanitation, equipment usage, safety, and compliance. You will manage seasonality, understand new products and recipes, and prioritize tasks across different areas. The position involves leveraging digital tools to enhance sales and associate engagement, making business decisions related to production and product quality, and adopting new technologies. You will also be accountable for operational excellence, profitability, maintaining a safe work area, ensuring appropriate staffing, and engaging with other departments and third-party partners. A key aspect of the role is talent development, including identifying training needs, providing necessary skills, encouraging career growth, and sourcing new talent. You will develop and implement processes, promote compliance with company policies, lead and participate in teams, and foster a respectful and inclusive workplace. The role emphasizes integrity, customer-first service, data-driven decision-making, continuous improvement, and supporting Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company.

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 I receive the position
Must be 18 years of age or older

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Supervises the team within all prepared foods departments for example caf 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 communicating the goals of the department executing company programs adhering to policies and being an advocate for the member the associate and the company
Maintains an indepth 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 producing and displaying merchandise according to the merchandise layout plan engaging with other departments and thirdparty business partners for example 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 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 supports Walmarts 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 selfaware honest fair and transparent
Delivers results while putting the customer first
Makes decisions based reliable information balances short and longterm priorities and considers how own work impacts the teams 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

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 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.