STORE PERISHABLE MGR - DG MKT in SANTA ANA CA S14500
About The Position
Under general supervision, manages the Perishable Departments, including Produce, Fresh Meat, Packaged Meats, Dairy, Frozen Food, Bread, and Thaw and Sell Bakery products. Ensures efficient and effective inventory management, appealing and profitable merchandise presentation, and quality customer service. Helps maintain a safe working environment and protect company assets according to required procedures. Ensures staff and store compliance with food-handling rules and regulations, and provides support to other managers as requested. The role maintains perishable stock levels based on store volume using department-specific ads, planners, order guides, sales histories, and recaps. It supports associate training in product presentation, freshness, pricing, safe food handling, recovery standards, stocking and rotation, produce grading and repackaging, and sanitation. The manager assesses work completion, follows up on associate performance, records markdowns and inventory levels, and assists store leadership with scheduling coverage.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Two to three years of retail clerk experience.
- Ability to perform mathematical calculations, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and percentages.
- Knowledge of cash-handling procedures, including cashier accountability and deposit control.
- Ability to perform cash register functions.
- Knowledge of cash, facility, and safety control policies and practices.
- Effective interpersonal and oral and written communication skills.
- Understanding of safety policies and practices.
- Ability to read and follow plan-o-gram and merchandise presentation guidance.
- Ability and willingness to comply with company policies and procedures in the Standard Operating Procedures manual, Employee Handbook, and company communications.
- Ability and willingness to obtain required food-handling certifications.
- Attainment of required local and state food-handling certifications, if applicable.
- Frequent walking and standing; frequent bending, stooping, and kneeling to operate a checkout station, stock merchandise, and unload trucks.
- Frequent handling of merchandise and equipment, including handheld scanners, pricing guns, box cutters, hoses, merchandise containers, two-wheel dollies, and U-boats.
- Frequent proper lifting of up to 40 pounds and occasional lifting of up to 55 pounds.
- Occasional climbing using a ladder.
- Fast-paced work environment with a moderate noise level; occasional exposure to outside weather, hazardous cleaning solutions, slippery floors, and extreme cold in freezers.
Nice To Haves
- Previous lead experience and/or grocery store experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Maintain correct perishable stock levels based on store volume using current ads and planners, produce order guides, fresh meat recaps and order guides, milk sales histories and order guides, Nash-Finch order guides, and bread order planning and stales recaps.
- Assist in training assigned associates on presentation, freshness, and pricing standards for perishable areas.
- Assist in training assigned associates in proper and safe food handling in compliance with applicable rules and regulations.
- Assist in training assigned associates to execute hourly recovery standards and model store standards.
- Train assigned associates in proper stocking and rotation of perishable products.
- Assist the Store Manager and Assistant Store Manager in ensuring adequate scheduling coverage.
- Assess work completion and follow up with associates regarding performance.
- Record perishable markdowns, analyze their causes, and take corrective action to prevent recurrence.
- Train assigned associates in produce grading and repackaging standards to minimize markdowns.
- Accurately record inventory levels as requested by the Store Support Center.
- Assist in ensuring compliance with sanitation standards and train assigned associates using the Cleaning Schedule.
- Provide support to other managers as requested.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
High school or GED
