Produce Lead Team Member

Meijer • Aurora, IL

2d • $18 - $20 • Onsite

About The Position

As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!

We're looking for a team member who leads through influence, not authority. As our Produce Lead Team Member, you'll be the go-to resource for your peers by sharing your knowledge, mentoring and training new team members, ordering fresh products, and helping create a department where teamwork and customer service thrive. If you're passionate about produce and enjoy helping others succeed, we'd love to have you on our team.

Requirements

• 18 Year old or older
• Open availability all days of the week
• Employees in this role may be scheduled to work any shift
• Passion for customer service with total engagement that conveys approachability to customers and fellow team members.
• Initiates interactions with customers and peers.
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Creative thinking skills
• Ability to influence others
• Ability to quickly build rapport and gain customer confidence to create repeat business
• Ability to lift, carry, push, pull, bend and twist while handling product
• Experience executing plans
• Positive influence to create a strong team environment.
• A commitment to fostering an inclusive environment where all team members and vendors feel valued and supported.

Nice To Haves

• Retail or other customer service experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Provides direction related to operations, processes, and conditions of their area.
• Plans, guides, and empowers team members in the day-to-day operation of the department.
• Sets example for those in their department by modeling exceptional customer experience.
• Possesses the ability to help achieve department goals and influence their peers to create a continued winning strategy.
• Engaging peers to provide the best possible shopping experience for our customers including an exceptional checkout experience.
• Communicating with team members and assigning daily work tasks.
• Mentoring and coaching other team members to ensure customer service and sales goals are exceeded and the area is maintained to Meijer standards and team members have completed required trainings.
• Supports training new team members/cross-training high potential talent, providing peer coaching on job responsibilities/standards to positively impact team member productivity.
• Working with leadership on department schedule writing to focus on team member engagement, improving customer service, store sales and profitability.
• Ensuring freshness of products by closely monitoring execution of rotation and dating policies.
• Guiding the team in compliance with food safety standards and regulations and working in a safe manner aligning to 200% accountability.
• Leading team members to ensure ordering, receiving, stocking, pricing, and product display are completed, where applicable.
• Actively creating an environment that supports the Meijer culture, including valuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
• Operating a register and cash handling when needed.
• Operating powered equipment, where applicable.
• Participating in period end inventories, where applicable, to help achieve goals.
• May be required to act in Lead capacity in other departments throughout the store.

Benefits

• Weekly pay
• Team member discount
• 401(k) with company contributions
• Paid parental leave
• Paid education assistance
• Development programs for advancement and career growth
• Medical/dental/vision
• medical, dental, vision, life insurance, a 401(k) plan with employer match, disability leave, and paid time off (PTO)
• paid parental leave, paid education assistance (including free education), a childcare subsidy

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed