Frozen Food Supervisor

About the role

Performs all frozen food responsibilities while working with and reporting to the Grocery Manager.

Responsibilities

• Assists the Grocery Manager in directing the operation of the frozen food department, including supervising and training personnel
• Maintains the quality condition of all frozen grocery products, stocks, rotates and faces products, discards out of code and spoiled products and maintains backroom
• Cleans and maintains shelves
• Assists in ordering, receiving, storing, stocking, inventory control, and building displays
• Encourages and maintains an atmosphere of enthusiastic customer awareness with an emphasis on safe, friendly, and courteous service
• Engages in suggestive selling and other sales techniques
• Assists the Grocery Manager in planning, organizing regular and seasonal merchandise requirements and special sales needs
• Rotates and faces product; processes and discards outdated and spoiled products
• Cleans and dusts shelves
• Orders frozen merchandise
• Trains, teaches and coaches dairy stocking and conditioning standards
• Assists with the "dry grocery" order writing
• Assists with grocery stocking and conditioning
• Works on new items
• Assists with the reclamation process
• Manages backroom inventory, conditions and standards
• Assists with grocery department merchandising and building displays

Qualifications

• Requires strong written and oral communication skills, good leadership and interpersonal skills, and the ability to maintain composure in dealing with customers, vendors and co-workers
• Friendly, courteous, takes initiative, and maintains composure in dealing with customers, co-workers and vendors as well as having the ability to concentrate and deal with interruptions and customer complaints, etc.
• Interacts effectively with all levels of personnel, customers, vendors and the public
• Requires knowledge of basic mathematics, ability to learn inventory control, pricing, merchandising, and shipping and receiving procedures
• Ability to judge and react to business activity
• Complies with all Company policies including attendance, grooming standards and dress codes

Physical requirements

• Frequently reaches, lifts, stacks and maneuvers objects of varying dimensions and weights up to approximately 80 lbs., within the range of floor level to overhead
• Ability to push and pull fully loaded hand trucks, six-wheel carts and pallet jacks
• Ability to stand, walk, and move rapidly for long periods of time, and bend, stoop, twist and turn frequently
• May climb ladders
• Mental alertness is required for safe, accurate completion of work activities and to do repetitious work accurately
• May utilize cleaning supplies and chemicals from time to time

Work environment

• Exposure to cleaning chemicals
• Frequent exposure to temperature of 35˚ Fahrenheit while handling product in a cold case, 28˚ Fahrenheit in a cooler and -20˚ Fahrenheit in a freezer
• Working conditions consist of a temperature-controlled store environment
• Exposure to varying temperatures while working in the loading and receiving area
• Occasional exposure to outdoor environment with varying temperatures
• Safety-sensitive Position: Job responsibilities include tasks or duties that could affect the safety or health of the employee performing the task or others