(USA) Prepared Food Lead

Walmart•Denton, TX

21h•Onsite

About The Position

As a Prepared Foods and Café Department Lead, you will drive sales in your area and supervise a team of hourly associates responsible for creating and serving meals to members. This role requires modeling expertise in Prepared Foods and Café and collaborating with other team leaders to meet member expectations. Key aspects include leading a team, maintaining in-depth knowledge of business operations, leveraging digital tools, driving business results, and acting as a talent ambassador through training and development. The position also emphasizes compliance with company policies, fostering teamwork, respecting individuals, acting with integrity, prioritizing customer service, and striving for continuous improvement.

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)

Responsibilities

Supervises the team within all prepared foods departments (e.g., café, rotisserie, 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.
Communicates the goals of the department, executes company programs, adheres to policies, and advocates for the member, the associate, and the company.
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

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.