Meat Ops Specialist - Safeway

About the role

The Mid-Atlantic Division has an opening for a Meat Ops Specialist in MA11. This is a field role with up to 70% travel within and outside of the district.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, enforce, and support execution of the division merchandising plan for their department in assigned stores.
• Train, coach, oversee and develop store teams within department.
• Travels to assigned stores working with the Department Manager and staff to share merchandising plans for departments to meet sales, gross and labor targets.
• Works with and counsel's department Managers and Store Directors in all aspects of product merchandising and customer service.
• Visits stores and evaluates on overall department presentation, cleanliness, compliance and program execution to company policy and procedures.
• Measures store level performance through department sales, gross profit and labor percent.
• Executes plans measured through store visits, reviewing results of plans, and observing store department conditions.
• Determines success of training programs by reviewing and assessing evaluations.
• Provides work guidance to store associates in areas such as product knowledge, sales and marketing techniques, understanding of profit and loss and compliance with company policies.
• Trains department managers basics of the business and managing their department.
• Provides input to Store Director on Store Department Manager performance.

Qualifications

• College degree or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years in grocery retail with a strong understanding across assigned department.
• Possess previous Department Manager and Store Director experience.
• Possess good written and verbal communication skills and deal effectively with a wide variety of people both in person and over the phone.
• Possess a marketing orientation, good analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Possess math skills to complete straightforward analysis.
• Possess strong leadership skills with the ability to lead and motivate others without directly supervising.

Skills

• Tech savvy -- complex systems do not intimidate you.
• Enjoy working collaboratively with cross-functional partners to drive actions & results.
• Take pride in the work you do, with every detail, whether big or small.
• Analyzing data, reports, and documents to develop solutions gives you energy.
• Fluent in MS Office, especially Excel (V-Lookups, Pivot tables, and writing formulas).
• Working on a fast-paced team is exciting to you.
• Can be depended on to meet deadlines.
• Making a huge impact on your customers and the company matters to you.

Benefits

• Competitive wages paid weekly.
• Access to up to 50% of your earned wages before payday, via our partnership with StreamAssociate.
• Discounts.
• Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates (Medical, Dental, 401k and more!)
• Time off (vacation, holidays, sick pay).

Pay

The pay range is $80k to 95k, but no less than the local minimum wage. Starting rates will vary based on things like location, experience, qualifications and the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreement.