Produce Manager

About the role

Location: 630 Baltimore Boulevard. Weis Markets seeks a Produce Department Manager who promotes excellent customer relations, oversees department operations, and leads a team to maximize sales and profitability.

Responsibilities

• Promotes excellent customer relations by instilling positive customer-focused behavior with associates; smiles and greets customers, answers questions, and resolves concerns promptly and professionally.
• Takes customer orders over the phone or in person; determines size and appearance requirements; creates finished products 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 while maximizing department profits.
• Participates in associate annual performance reviews and new hire interviews; utilizes the Learning Management System (LMS) for current and new associates.
• Develops and implements localized merchandising plans; sets up and creates displays for new or seasonal items to drive sales.
• Maintains communications with other departments and store manager to devise cross-merchandising plans that meet financial objectives.
• Monitors competitor activity concerning merchandising, pricing, quality, and comparison signage.
• Prepares, maintains, and tracks inventory records to calculate gross monthly profits per company guidelines.
• Maintains associate department records and reports on performance, discipline, sales, and future plans.
• Checks and verifies all department deliveries and invoices for accurate billing; may help unload merchandise and transport to sales floor or storage.
• Enforces department practices for receiving, dating, and restocking to ensure product rotation; monitors product quality and freshness; breaks down deliveries.
• Controls department expenses by improving operations and efficiencies, controlling labor costs, and reducing losses from damages, spoilage, and shrink.
• Ensures associates 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; handles special requests such as fruit baskets.
• Unpacks cartons and crates, cleans and trims produce, stocks new merchandise; rotates stock to ensure freshness; ensures correct pricing and signage.
• Maintains salad bar and cut fruit/vegetable sections as needed; assists in building attractive displays; accurately completes product logs.
• Handles spoiled, damaged, new, and discontinued items per company policy.
• Maintains backroom and receiving area security and organization using 5S procedures; responsible for general sanitation.
• Follows cleaning schedules and department guidelines to ensure work areas, equipment, counters, and display cases meet health and OSHA requirements; disposes of trash properly.
• May assist with baling cardboard or related duties if properly trained (training provided).
• Ensures smooth department and store function by cooperating with co-workers and superiors; continuously improves job performance.
• Utilizes all company-provided Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), including cut-resistant gloves, safety cutters, and company-sponsored footwear.
• May be called upon to assist in other departments.

Supervisory responsibilities

• Supervises all associates in the department.
• May oversee the Floral department in select stores.
• Number of associates supervised varies by store volume.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Associate or bachelor's degree in business-related or food service-related field desirable.
• Minimum 3 years' management experience in retail, restaurant, or supermarket environment.
• Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without accommodation.

Pay

Hourly rate ranges from $19.00 to $27.00.

Benefits

• Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) Plan with 100% in-network coverage for all ACA-required preventive care services.
• Two supplemental medical plan options: Advantage and Elite plans.
• Dental and vision coverage.
• Short-term disability, term life, and AD&D insurance.
• Voluntary insurance options: hospital indemnity, critical illness.
• 401(k) retirement savings plans.
• Scholarship program and associate discount programs.
• Auto and home insurance.
• Employee assistance program.
• Pet insurance.
• Purchasing power program.
• Paid time off and sick pay (subject to eligibility and criteria specific to the position).