Prepared Foods Team Leader - Earth Fare Christiansburg
About The Position
The Prepared Foods Team Leader is a department manager responsible for modeling Earth Fare’s mission, convictions, and purpose while developing and managing a successful team. The role oversees department procedures, financial performance—including gross profit, shrink, sales, labor, and overhead—and maintains a clean, organized, and safe work environment. The Team Leader also serves as a key holder supporting overall store operations. This position leads team training and development, supervises and participates in prepared-food production, maintains quality standards and product presentation, and handles department operations such as ordering, receiving, scheduling, report review, and inventory. The role also maintains merchandising standards and department cleanliness, sanitation, and organization.
Requirements
- Knowledge of food service industry trends and common allergies and specialized dietary terms, including gluten-free, vegan, and vegetarian.
- Understanding of food safety and sanitation and proper use of kitchen utensils and other food-preparation equipment.
- Proven success managing shrink, sales, gross profit, and total department overhead in a similar environment.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office programs, including Excel and Outlook.
- Ability to learn and use a Falcon hand-held computer scanner.
- Leadership experience managing a team of 10 or more people.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
- Ability to bend, reach, stoop, kneel, squat, push, pull, and maneuver heavy loads.
- Ability to stand and be on one’s feet during the workday.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, customer-service-focused environment and tolerate short periods in extreme cold or heat.
- Ability to travel periodically for meetings.
Nice To Haves
- Perishable experience.
- OSHA ServSafe Certification.
Responsibilities
- Communicate Earth Fare’s vision, standard operating procedures, merchandising guidelines, and financial goals to team members, emphasizing customer service, safety, and sanitation.
- Interview, select, train, and support team members.
- Act as a key holder to support overall store operations.
- Supervise and participate in the production of in-house prepared foods and the presentation and display of quality prepared items.
- Maintain high standards of quality control.
- Order and receive deliveries, schedule staff, review daily and weekly sales and movement reports, review shrink reports and emails, and respond accordingly.
- Conduct monthly department inventory and continually identify ways to reduce expenses.
- Develop and maintain an attractive sales floor in accordance with Earth Fare merchandising guidelines.
- Maintain cleanliness, sanitation, and organization throughout the department, including fixtures, storage, work stations, freezers, and coolers.
- Meet and exceed department financial goals for gross profit, shrink, sales, labor, and overhead.
- Ensure a clean, organized, and safe work environment.
Benefits
- Health, vision, and dental insurance for full-time employees.
- Paid time off.
- 20% store discount and discounted hot bar and salad bar.
- Flexible scheduling.
- Supportive working environment.
- Opportunities for growth and advancement.
- Support and tools to develop skills and master current roles.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
