Meat Lead

Position Summary

As a Meat Department Lead you will drive sales in your area and supervise your team of hourly associates to deliver to our members more of what they love, for less. You will model expertise in Meat and work collaboratively with other team leaders to ensure the total club meets the member’s expectations.

What you'll do

• Be a Team Leader
  • Supervises the team within the meat department to deliver on the business plan and contribute to the overall success of the club by communicating the goals of the department, executing company programs, adhering to policies, and being an advocate for the member, the associate, and the company.
    • Working collaboratively with other team leaders to ensure the total club is meeting the members' expectations.
• Be an Expert
  • Maintains an indepth knowledge of business on the floor, backroom operations, product updates, and product specifications by ensuring the meat department meets company and regulatory standards for quality, inventory, production equipment usage, safety, and compliance.
    • Sharing knowledge and prioritizing training for the team to understand the item specifications and utilize the approved equipment for high volume products.
    • Engaging with the members and sharing a passion for the product to help them make the right protein selection.
• Be a Techie
  • Leverages digital tools to plan for and drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement.
    • Utilizing handheld technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, training, and product quality.
    • Adopts new tools and encourages others to use them.
• Be an Owner
  • Drives the business results ensuring commitment to operational excellence, maintaining a neat, clean, and safe work area in the meat department, utilizing digital tools for forecasting, planning, and production, facilitating the product inventory and ordering process, ensuring appropriate staffing levels, and accurate audits and compliance standards.
    • Ensuring meat and seafood equipment and storage systems are in working order.
    • Producing and displaying merchandise according to the merchandise layout plan.
• Be a Talent Ambassador
  • Teaches and trains the team by identifying training needs, providing and developing necessary skills to deliver high-quality products to the members, encouraging career growth for team members, and sourcing new talent internally and externally to work on the team.
    • Developing, communicating, and implementing processes and practices to meet business needs by collaborating with managers, coworkers, customers, and other business partners.
    • Analyzing and applying information from multiple sources, monitoring progress and results, and identifying and addressing improvement opportunities.
    • Recognizing others' contributions and accomplishments.
• Act with Integrity
  • Demonstrates, promotes, and supports compliance with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity by explaining, guiding, and demonstrating how to apply these in executing business processes and practices.
  • Implementing related action plans using the Open Door Policy.
  • Assisting management with correcting ethical and compliance issues and problems.
  • Leading and participating in teams by using and sharing resources, information, and tools.
  • Determining customer needs and business priorities.
  • Coordinating and executing work assignments.
  • Providing advice, feedback, and support to ensure timelines and work quality are achieved.
  • Modeling and helping others with how to adapt to change or new challenges.
  • Respecting individuals by embracing differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences.
  • Creating a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging.
  • Creating opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform.
  • Helping to attract the best talent.
  • Respecting individuals by working as a team, building strong and trusting relationships, communicating with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence.
  • Acting with integrity by acting in a selfless manner and being consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent.
  • Acting with integrity by serving our customers and members by delivering results while putting the customer first.
  • Making decisions based on reliable information, balancing short and long-term priorities, and considering how one's work impacts the team's ability to deliver on our purpose for all stakeholders.
  • Striving for excellence by displaying curiosity and a desire to learn, taking calculated risks, demonstrating courage and resilience, and driving continuous improvements.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6 months experience in a meat production department or 6 months experience supervising a team.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.

Preferred Qualifications

• Meat processing, including boneless and bone-in products.
• Supervising Associates
• Food Services - ServSafe Certification

Primary Location

3536 HAMMONS BLVD, JOPLIN, MO 64804-4451, United States of America

Additional Information

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.