PRODUCE/DEPT LEADER

About the role

Implement all company and division policies to achieve maximum sales and profits in the produce departments. Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

Responsibilities

• Develop maximum customer relations by produce department personnel through personal example of friendliness and courtesy, and implementation of all company policies.
• Be alert and assist in store security.
• Be perceptive and handle customer complaints.
• Make recommendations regarding the hiring, firing, disciplining, demoting, transferring and evaluating all produce department personnel.
• Proper indoctrination of all department employees; ensure they can read scales and prices correctly.
• Provide adequate knowledge and training of price marking, ensuring proper emphasis on customer courtesy and productivity and that skills learned are properly utilized.
• Supervise all aspects of salad bar operations.
• Discuss with store manager the most efficient and practical working schedules of both full and part-time employees for maximum efficiency.
• Maintain personable, clean and neat appearance of departmental personnel, having them properly uniformed and identified.
• Maintain good communication with all store personnel.
• Plan, organize, direct, and control the activities of the produce department, and may take charge of the store operation in the absence of the store manager (within scope of authority).
• Direct the receiving, storing, pricing, and merchandising of all produce products.
• Assure adequate stock and supplies by proper ordering, so that department inventories can be maintained at optimum levels.
• Maintain and submit required records and reports and use them effectively.
• Maintain effective house cleaning in all areas: clean and/or defrost cases according