132 - Food City Produce Team Lead - 27th Ave & W. Van Buren

Responsibilities

• Directing produce department personnel, meeting department's goals and objectives.
• Engaging with customers through smiles and greetings, offering product information, providing selling suggestions and active sampling and always giving a genuine thank you.
• Communicating directly with the store team lead and produce specialist and director.
• Ordering produces merchandise and supplies necessary to maintain adequate stock levels.
• Merchandising fruits, vegetables, and produce products in accordance with produce merchandising standards.
• Building attractive displays of produce, while maintaining proper product inventory levels.
• Communicating, executing and supporting all sales and merchandising initiatives.
• Serving as the leader of his/her department, a role model, coach, performance evaluator and trainer.
• Creating department budgets and tracking financial reports (e.g. profit/loss, sales and expenses).
• Achieving department sales and profits goals; and controlling department labor, inventory, product out of stocks and shrink, sanitation, supplies, equipment, safety, and scheduling.
• Ensuring department compliance with health department and weights and measures requirements.
• Unloading trailers, receiving merchandise verifying orders, breaking down produce loads, positioning cases of product in the produce warehouse or walk-in cooler.
• Understanding proper product trimming, rotation, culling, crisping and watering techniques and procedures, ensuring product attractiveness and shelf life.
• Understanding the importance of monitoring product pricing, signage, and placement and the proper use of product shelf tags and signage.
• Keeping clean, neat and orderly work and storage areas, including a well swept produce department.
• Attentively stocking dated perishable products, rotating them as necessary to ensure quality and safety.

Qualifications

• Must be 18 years of age.
• Must be 21 years of age for any position that serves alcohol.

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive compensation, paid weekly
• Retirement Benefits
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for yourself and eligible dependents
• Tuition Reimbursement for qualified courses
• Scholarship opportunities for continued education
• Store discount programs (10% off household groceries)
• Fun work environment where you have the opportunity to nourish your community.