Assistant Meat Manager

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Promotes excellent customer relations by instilling positive customer focused behavior with associates.
• Smiles and greets customers, answers customer questions and helps resolve customer concerns promptly in a polite and professional manner.
• Focuses on continuous improvement in all areas of the department and makes changes to ensure progress.
• Takes customer orders over the phone or in person at the store with a pleasant and positive attitude.
• Determines what the customer is looking for in terms of size and appearance. Creates the finished decorated product in timely fashion.
• Ensures fresh quality merchandise by using proper product handling techniques.
• Helps with controlling damages and minimizing product losses according to company procedures and standards.
• Makes sure to cut and trim product.
• Aids the Meat Manager in day-to-day functions of Meat operations such as merchandising, ad execution, associate engagement and customer service.
• Collaborates with the Meat Manager to coordinate sales and merchandising plans for the department to ensure proper stock levels and freshness.
• Monitors competitor activity concerning merchandising, pricing, quality, and comparison signage.
• Oversees department inventories by tracking weekly sales reports, product orders and supplies to ensure successful period-end physical inventory.
• Assists with scheduling all department associates, participates in training, rewards and recognizes performance and delegates work assignments to effectively utilize talents and abilities while maximizing profits for the department.
• Utilizes the Learning Management System (LMS) for current and new associates.
• Manages inventory levels and reviews orders to ensure product quantities meet customer demand.
• Maintains backroom organization and product storage within company guidelines.
• Oversees shelf replenishment efforts to ensure product availability for customers, with prioritization for weekly specials, seasonally and locally relevant items, and other high-velocity items.
• Utilizes cutting list for accuracy and variety of product.
• Checks and verifies all department deliveries and invoices to ensure accurate billing.
• May help unload merchandise and transport to sales floor or storage area.
• Enforces and follows department practices regarding receiving, dating and restocking to ensure product rotation.
• Maintains product quality and freshness.
• Controls department expenses by improving operations and efficiencies, controls labor costs and reduces losses due to damages, spoiled product and shrink.
• Maintains freshness by properly removing and recording out of code products.
• Completes required product logs.
• Keeps meat department cases well stocked and appealing to meet customer demand.
• Smiles and greets customers, makes suggestions, answers questions about various cuts and preparation of products.
• Takes orders for future delivery and helps fill special requests.
• Helps resolve customer concerns in a prompt and courteous manner.
• Sets up displays and rotates product as needed.
• Ensures that meat is fresh, in saleable condition with proper prices and signage.
• Handles product that is spoiled, damaged or close to expiration as detailed by company procedures and standards.
• Removes product that is not saleable to ensure quality.
• May grind and cut certain meats and poultry.
• Weighs and wraps merchandise at; applies sticker showing correct price and weight.
• Maintains necessary logs to track freshness and quality.
• Adheres to all food and personal safety codes when handling product or utilizing kitchen tools.
• Maintains backroom and receiving area security and organization by promoting 5S procedures.
• Responsible for general sanitation in the department.
• Follows cleaning schedules and department guidelines to ensure that work areas, equipment, counters, display cases, etc. are well maintained, clean and meet all health and OSHA requirements.
• Disposes of trash properly. Empties bone cans.
• May assist with baling cardboard or other related duties if properly trained.
• Ensures smooth workflow within department by cooperating with co-workers and superiors.
• Strives to continuously improve job performance.
• Responsible for utilization of all company provided Personal Protected Equipment (PPE).
• Including but not limited to cut resistant gloves, safety cutters, company sponsored footwear, etc.
• May also be called upon to assist in other departments.

Qualification Requirements

• High School diploma or general education degree (GED) required.
• Associate or bachelor's degree in business related or food service-related field desirable.
• Minimum (2) years' experience in management in a retail/restaurant/supermarket environment.
• Meat management experience preferred.