Produce Associate

Sam's West • Fishkill, NY

4d • Onsite

About The Position

This role is for a Produce Associate at Sam's Club. The position focuses on ensuring the quality, availability, cleanliness, and freshness of produce for members. The associate will be involved in customer service, maintaining the produce area, stocking merchandise, and managing inventory to prevent out-of-stock and over-stock situations. The role emphasizes a positive attitude, exceptional customer service, and contributing to a positive shopping experience for members. The associate will also be responsible for understanding produce quality, preparing products, maintaining safety and sanitation standards, and leveraging digital tools to improve operations and customer experience. Ownership of the department's performance, including inventory management, quality control, waste reduction, and customer assistance, is expected. The role also involves being a talent ambassador for the department and club, executing tasks with high quality, and demonstrating commitment and passion for the work. Compliance with company policies, procedures, and ethical standards is required, as is effective completion of work assignments and priorities.

Requirements

• Must be 18 years of age or older
• Acknowledge that the position for which I am applying requires me to successfully complete all job required trainings and assessments within a prescribed time period if I receive the position.

Nice To Haves

• Passion for and experience with produce
• Keep member satisfaction as your top priority
• Comfortable with change and quickly adapt to different work scenarios
• Curious and creative thinker, driving change through out-of-box thinking
• Can communicate effectively and positively influence team members
• Will lead by example

Responsibilities

• Maintaining a positive attitude by smiling, greeting and thanking members
• Providing exceptional customer service to members across the club as needed, answering any questions they may have
• Maintaining a clean, neat, and member-ready area
• Receiving & stocking merchandise in an organized manner
• Maintaining inventory so that there is no out of stock and over-stock products
• Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of the products
• Collaborating with cross functional teams and helping educate other associates on tools, tasks, and resources
• Communicating effectively and developing interpersonal skills for providing customer service
• Being flexible to the needs of the business to work in other areas
• Tracking goods, maintaining in-stock levels, and controlling shrinkage in a timely manner
• Understanding the processes and specifications related to quality of various types of produce merchandise
• Preparing (trim, crisp, package, scale) products according to established standards
• Maintaining product safety and following company sanitation guidelines
• Adhering to applicable laws, regulations, and company policies related to produce quality
• Leveraging digital tools to drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement
• Utilizing hand held technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, training, and product quality with the member in mind
• Adapting to new tools and encouraging others to use them
• Driving the performance of the area
• Using perpetual inventory management techniques to stock and rotate department products
• Ensuring quality and date control standards
• Eliminating waste
• Guiding peers and providing attention to customer needs
• Assisting customers according to company policies and procedures
• Being an advocate for the department and the club by valuing the member's experience in meat area and modeling high quality service and products
• Executing the basics at highest possible level of quality
• Exhibiting energy, commitment, and passion for the work
• Complying with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity by implementing related action plans
• Using the Open Door Policy
• Applying these in executing business processes and practices
• Completing work assignments and priorities by using policies, data, and resources
• Collaborating with managers, co-workers, customers, and other business partners
• Identifying priorities, deadlines, and expectations
• Carrying out tasks
• Communicating progress and information
• Determining and recommending ways to address improvement opportunities
• Adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback

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: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed