Gulf Coast - Meat Manager - Victoria and Surrounding Areas

About the role

As an Hourly Meat Market Manager, you'll be responsible for the total operation of the Meat Market Department including Customer and Partner relations, merchandising, and financial performance. Once you're eligible, you'll become an Owner in the company, so we're looking for commitment, hard work, and focus on quality and Customer service. "Partner-owned" means our most important resources—People—drive the innovation, growth, and success that make H-E-B The Greatest Omnichannel Retailing Company.

What we are looking for

• School of Retail Management (SORM)
• Experience with USDC-HAACP programs
• Leadership experience

Management responsibilities

• Spends majority of time using independent judgment making employment-related and business decisions, or effectively recommending such decisions, including product- and department-related strategies, hiring, promoting, disciplining, suspending, discharging, rewarding, or otherwise engaging in resolving Partner-related matters
• Develops / trains future leaders in the School of Retail Management (SORM) and School of Retail Leadership (SORL)
• Trains Partners on proper packaging, displaying / merchandising processes according to department SOPs
• Plans / coordinates / communicates the Corporate merchandising and marketing plan to the Store plan
• Prepares work schedules, orders product, controls inventory, monitors department budget and payroll
• Regularly performs Market Partner duties

Sales & analytics

• Achieves sales goals by preparing projections / forecasts, managing / reducing costs, and ensuring accuracy of invoices
• Exhibits passion for product and customer service; drives customer engagement for department
• Ensures in-stock conditions, wareroom / inventory control

Food safety & sanitation

• Ensures compliance with federal, state, and H-E-B policy and standards for product food safety and sanitation
• Maintains safety / sanitation standards of equipment, department, and throughout the work area

Background requirements

• Minimum age 18 (mandatory)
• Completion of School of Retail Management (SORM)
• Experience in leadership / management
• Experience in ordering, inventory management, and shrink control
• Experience managing USDC-HAACP programs
• Food Safety certification

Skills & knowledge

• Knowledge of department processes, SOPs, and equipment, including knives, saws, cutting techniques, packaging, merchandising, equipment breakdown / assembly
• Advanced customer service skills
• Interpersonal and verbal / written communication skills
• Computer skills, including MS Office (Word, Excel), and H-E-B systems
• Ability to build, motivate, and maintain staff
• Ability to distinguish and communicate cuts of meat and cooking techniques
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and shift focus between tasks

Physical requirements

• Function in a fast-paced, retail environment
• Continuously stand, walk, bend, reach, kneel, squat, reach overhead, and side to side throughout shift
• Regularly work in cooler environment, and occasionally in an extreme cold environment
• Occasionally lift and carry 80-90 pounds
• Safely maneuver around moving mechanical parts
• Work extended hours and rotating schedules