Deli-Bakery 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 product in a timely fashion.
• 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.
• Schedules all Seafood associates, oversees and participates in training, rewards and recognizes performance and delegates work assignments to effectively utilize talents and abilities while maximizing profits for the department.
• Participates in associate annual performance reviews and new hire interviews.
• Utilizes the Learning Management System (LMS) for current and new associates.
• Develops and implements localized merchandising plans, sets up and creates displays for new or seasonal items to drive sales.
• Develops and maintains communications with other departments and store manager in order to devise cross merchandising plans, to meet financial objectives.
• 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.
• May assist with baling cardboard or other related duties if properly trained.
• Training provided.
• Ensures smooth function of department and store by cooperating with co-workers and supervisors.
• Responsible to continuously improve job and department performance.
• Responsible for utilization of all company provided Personal Protected Equipment (PPE).

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 (3) years management experience in a retail/restaurant/supermarket environment.

Pay and Benefits

The hourly pay for this position starts at $19.00/hr. and is up to 29.00/hr. Department Manager and Shift Supervisor: Full-time associate Weis Markets offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package such as health plan, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, short term disability, basic life and AD&D, group whole life with long term care rider, and voluntary insurance such as hospital indemnity, accident and critical illness, 401(k) retirement savings plans, scholarship program and associate discount programs, auto and home insurance, employee assistance program, pet insurance, purchasing power, ID theft protection, legal services, paid time off, sick pay and quarterly incentive based on eligibility and criteria specific to the position is met.

Weis Markets is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Weis Markets is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of actual or perceived age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, familial status, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with a disability may be entitled to a reasonable accommodation under terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the ways things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Weis Markets.