Meat Cutter - Lead - Lake Orion MI

About the role

The Meat Cutter - Lead role at Meijer provides an opportunity to transition into leadership, focusing on delivering exceptional customer experiences and inspiring your team.

Responsibilities

• Engage peers to provide the best possible shopping experience for customers, including exceptional checkout experiences.
• Communicate with team members and assign daily work tasks.
• Mentor and coach other team members to ensure customer service and sales goals are exceeded and the area is maintained to Meijer standards.
• Support training new team members/cross-training high potential talent, providing peer coaching on job responsibilities/standards to positively impact team member productivity.
• Work with leadership on department schedule writing to focus on team member engagement, improving customer service, store sales, and profitability.
• Ensure freshness of products by closely monitoring execution of rotation and dating policies.
• Guide the team in compliance with food safety standards and regulations and work in a safe manner aligning to 200% accountability.
• Lead team members to ensure ordering, receiving, stocking, pricing, and product display are completed, where applicable.
• Create an environment that supports the Meijer culture, including valuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
• Operate a register and cash handling when needed.
• Operate powered equipment, where applicable.
• Participate in period end inventories, where applicable, to help achieve goals.

Requirements

Must be an experienced Meat Cutter or Meat Cutter Apprentice.

Qualifications

• Passion for customer service with total engagement that conveys approachability to customers and fellow team members.
• Initiates interactions with customers and peers.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Retail or other customer service experience preferred.
• Creative thinking skills.
• Ability to influence others.
• Ability to quickly build rapport and gain customer confidence to create repeat business.
• Experience executing plans.
• A positive influence to create a strong team environment.
• A commitment to fostering an inclusive environment where all team members and vendors feel valued and supported.

Skills

• Customer Service Orientation
• Leadership and Team Management
• Problem Solving and Decision Making
• Communication and Interpersonal Skills
• Product Knowledge and Training
• Health and Safety Compliance

Benefits

• Weekly Pay
• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
• Team Member Discount
• Development Programs for Advancement and Career Growth

Pay

$18.00/HR or higher based on experience.

Schedule

Full-time role with scheduling flexibility.