Prepared Food Lead

Walmart•West Jordan, UT

21h•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 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. The role involves maintaining in-depth knowledge of business operations, ensuring quality, inventory, production, sanitation, equipment usage, safety, and compliance. It also includes managing seasonality, understanding new products, recipes, processes, and production specifications, and prioritizing time between areas. The lead will leverage digital tools to plan for and drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement, utilizing hand-held technology for business decisions related to production, training, and product quality. The position requires driving business results, ensuring operational excellence, planning for profitability, maintaining a clean and safe work area, ensuring appropriate staffing levels, and accurate audit and compliance standards. It also involves producing and displaying merchandise according to the merchandise layout plan and engaging with other departments and third-party business partners. Furthermore, the role includes teaching and training the team, identifying training needs, providing and developing necessary skills, encouraging career growth, and sourcing new talent. The lead will develop, communicate, and implement processes and practices to meet business needs, monitor progress, and identify improvement opportunities. They will also demonstrate, promote, and support compliance with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity, and lead and participate in teams by using and sharing resources, information, and tools, and modeling adaptability to change. The role also emphasizes 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.
Must be 18 years of age or older.
Successfully complete all job required trainings and assessments within a prescribed time period if you receive the position.

Nice To Haves

Supervising a team
Food Handler Certification (Food Safety)

Responsibilities

Drive sales in your area and supervise your team of hourly associates who create and serve meals to members.
Model expertise in Prepared Foods and Café.
Work collaboratively with other team leaders to ensure the total club meets the member’s expectations.
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 be an advocate for the member, the associate, and the company.
Maintain an in-depth knowledge of business on the floor and backroom operations.
Ensure 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.
Prioritize 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 hand-held technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, training, and product quality.
Adopt new tools and encourage others to use them.
Drive business results, ensuring commitment to operational excellence.
Plan for profitability.
Maintain 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.
Provide and develop necessary skills to deliver high-quality products to the members.
Encourage career growth for team members.
Source 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.
Analyze and apply information from multiple sources.
Monitor progress and results and identify and address improvement opportunities.
Demonstrate, promote, and support compliance with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity.
Explain, guide, and demonstrate how to apply policies in executing business processes and practices.
Implement related action plans using the Open Door Policy.
Assist management with correcting ethical and compliance issues and problems.
Lead and participate in teams by using and sharing resources, information, and tools.
Determine customer needs and business priorities.
Coordinate and execute work assignments.
Provide advice, feedback, and support to ensure timelines and work quality are achieved.
Model and help 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.
Create opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform.
Help to attract the best talent.
Build strong and trusting relationships.
Communicate with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence.
Strengthen the team by helping, developing, and mentoring others.
Recognize 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.
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 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
Medical, vision and dental coverage
401(k)
Stock purchase
Company-paid life insurance
PTO (Paid Time Off)
Parental leave
Family care leave
Bereavement
Jury duty
Voting leave
PPTO (Protected Paid Time Off)
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, including high school completion, bachelor's degrees, English Language Learning, and short-form certificates; tuition, books, and fees completely paid for by Walmart).