Produce Manager

About the role

Looking for a company that treats associates with respect, understanding, and appreciation? Looking for a company that is passionate about teamwork and the growth of it's associates and communities? That's WEIS! Location Address: 840 Hooper Road, Park Manor Plaza

Responsibilities

• Promotes excellent customer relations by instilling positive customer focused behavior with associates.
• Smiles and greets customers, answers customer questions and helps resolve customer concerns promptly in a polite and professional manner.
• Focuses on continuous improvement in all areas of the department and makes changes to ensure progress.
• Takes customer orders over the phone or in person at the store with a pleasant and positive attitude.
• Determines what the customer is looking for in terms of size and appearance.
• Creates the finished product in a timely fashion.
• Schedules all produce Associates, oversees and participates in training, rewards and recognizes performance and delegates work assignments to effectively utilize talents and abilities while maximizing profits for the department.
• Participates in associate annual performance reviews and new hire interviews.
• Utilizes the Learning Management System (LMS) current and new associates.
• Develops and implements localized merchandising plans, sets up and creates displays for new or seasonal items to drive sales.
• Develops and maintains communications with other departments and store manager in order to devise cross merchandising plans, to meet financial objectives.
• Monitors competitor activity concerning merchandising, pricing, quality, and comparison signage.
• Prepares, maintains and tracks records concerning inventories to calculate gross monthly profits according to company guidelines.
• Maintains associate department records and reports on all important matters including associate performance and discipline, sales, future plans, etc.
• Checks and verifies all department deliveries and invoices to ensure accurate billing.
• May help unload merchandise and transport to sales floor or storage area.
• Enforces and follows department practices regarding receiving, dating and restocking to ensure product rotation.
• Monitors product quality and freshness.
• Breaks down deliveries.
• Controls department expenses by improving operations and efficiencies, controls labor costs and reduces losses due to damages, spoiled product and shrink.
• Ensures associates correctly follow company recipes for prepared products.
• Maintains freshness by properly removing and recording out of code products.
• Completes required product logs.
• Keeps produce department well stocked and appealing to meet customer demands.
• Smiles and greets customers, answers customer questions, handles special requests such as filling orders for fruit baskets and resolves customer concerns promptly in a polite and professional manner.
• Unpacks cartons and crates of merchandise, cleans and trims produce, stocks area with new merchandise.
• Ensures merchandise is in saleable condition which requires rotating stock to ensure freshness.
• Ensures that product has been properly priced with correct signage.
• Maintains salad bar and cut fruit/vegetable as needed.
• Assists in building attractive displays.
• Accurately completes necessary product logs.
• Handles spoiled and damaged product, new items and discontinued items accordingly to company policy.
• Maintains backroom and receiving area security and organization by promoting 5S procedures responsible for general sanitation in the department.