(USA)Prepared Food Lead

Position Summary

As a Prepared Foods and Café Department Lead you will drive sales in your area and supervise your team of hourly associates who create and serve meals to our members - giving them more of what they love, for less. You will model expertise in Prepared Foods and Café 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 all prepared foods departments (café, rotisserie, and prepared foods) by facilitating rotations through different fresh areas and managing members needs to deliver on the business plan and contribute to the overall success of your club; communicating the goals of the department; executing company programs; adhering to policies; and being an advocate for the member, the associate, and the company.
• Be an Expert: Maintains an in-depth knowledge of business on the floor and backroom operations by ensuring the prepared foods area meets company and regulatory standards for quality, inventory, production, sanitation, equipment usage, safety, and compliance; manages seasonality in terms of production; understands new products, recipes, processes, and production specifications; prioritizing time between areas; collaborates with associates and third parties ensuring the team has resources to do their job effectively; sharing knowledge and training the team.
• Be a Techie: Leverages digital tools to plan for and drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement; utilizes hand held technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, training, and product quality; adopting new tools and encouraging others to use them.
• Be an Owner: Drives the business results ensuring commitment to operational excellence, planning for profitability, maintaining a neat, clean and safe work area in the prepared foods area, ensuring appropriate staffing levels and accurate audit and compliance standards, producing and displaying merchandise according to the merchandise layout plan, engaging with other departments and third-party business partners (maintenance personnel, suppliers, equipment vendors) to ensure operational continuity.
• 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.
• Develops, communicates and implements 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.
• 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; and assisting management with correcting ethical and compliance issues and problems.
• Leads and participates 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; and modeling and helping others with how to adapt to change or new challenges.
• Respect the Individual: Embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas and experiences; creates a workplace where associates feel seen, supported and connected through a culture of belonging; creates opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform; helps to attract the best talent. Works as a team, builds strong and trusting relationships, communicates with impact, energy and positivity to motivate and influence. Strengthens the team by helping, developing and mentoring others; recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.
• Act with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values to support and foster our culture; holds oneself and others accountable; supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members and the world around us. Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair and transparent.
• Serve our Customers and Members: Delivers results while putting the customer first. Makes decisions based on reliable information; balances short and long-term priorities; and considers how own work impacts the team's ability to deliver on our purpose for all stakeholders.
• Strive for Excellence: Displays curiosity and a desire to learn; takes calculated risks and demonstrates courage and resilience. Drives continuous improvements; is open to and uses new technologies and skills; and supports others through change.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6 months experience in a fresh production department OR 6 months experience supervising a team.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Successful completion of all job required trainings and assessments within a prescribed time period if offered the position.

Preferred Qualifications

• Supervising a team
• Food Handler Certification (Food Safety) - Certification

Pay

• Hourly wage range: $23.00 to $31.00 per hour (actual rate will equal or exceed required minimum wage applicable to job location).
• Additional premiums may be paid in amounts ranging from $0.35 to $3.00 per hour based on schedule, facility, season, or specific work performed (multiple premiums may apply if criteria are met).
• Performance-based bonus awards.

Benefits

• Health: Medical, vision and dental coverage.
• Financial: 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid Time Off: PTO and/or PPTO for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes (amount depends on job classification and length of employment; meets or exceeds paid sick leave laws where applicable). Also includes parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Other: Short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Education: Live Better U company-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates (high school completion to bachelor's degrees, English Language Learning, short-form certificates; tuition, books, and fees completely paid).

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