(USA) Prepared Food Lead

Walmart • Tulsa, OK

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 includes communicating the goals of the department, executing company programs, adhering to policies, and being an advocate for the member, the associate, and the company. You will 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. You will manage seasonality in terms of production, understand new products, recipes, processes, and production specifications, and prioritize time between areas. You will also collaborate with associates and third parties, ensuring the team has the resources to do their job effectively, sharing knowledge, and training the team. Additionally, you will leverage digital tools to plan for and drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement. You will utilize hand-held technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, training, and product quality, and adopt 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 adhering to accurate audit and compliance standards. You will produce and display merchandise according to the merchandise layout plan and engage with other departments and third-party business partners (e.g., maintenance personnel, suppliers, equipment vendors) to ensure 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. You will 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. You will demonstrate, promote, and support compliance with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity. You will 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. 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, and creating opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform. You will work as a team, build strong and trusting relationships, and communicate with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence. You will strengthen the team by helping, developing, and mentoring others, and recognizing others' contributions and accomplishments. You will maintain and promote the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, and model the Walmart values. You will act in a selfless manner and be consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent. You will deliver results while putting the customer first and make decisions based on reliable information, balancing short- and long-term priorities, and considering 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. You will drive continuous improvements, be open to and use new technologies and skills, and support 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

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
• 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

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees