(USA) Prepared Food Lead

About the role

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. 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.

Responsibilities

• Be a Team Leader: Supervises the team within all prepared foods departments (e.g., café, rotisserie, and prepared foods) by facilitating rotations through different fresh areas and managing member 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; prioritizes time between areas; collaborates with associates and third parties to ensure the team has resources to do their job effectively; shares knowledge and trains the team.
• Be a Techie: Leverages digital tools to plan for and drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement; utilizes handheld technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, training, and product quality; adopts new tools and encourages others to use them.
• Be an Owner: Drives business results by 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 (e.g., 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 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; analyzes and applies information from multiple sources; monitors progress and results; identifies and addresses 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.
• Respect the Individual: Works as a team; builds strong and trusting relationships; communicates with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence.
• Respect the Individual: 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.
• Act with Integrity: 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; 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.
• Strive for Excellence: Drives continuous improvements; is open to and uses new technologies and skills; supports others through change.

Requirements

• 6 months experience in a fresh production department or 6 months experience supervising a team.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.

Preferred Qualifications

• Supervising a team.
• Food Handler Certification (Food Safety) – Certification.

Benefits

• Health benefits: medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits: 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off benefits: PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. PTO and/or PPTO can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount depends on your job classification and length of employment and will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.
• Other benefits: short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
• Live Better U: company-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates, including high school completion to bachelor’s degrees, English Language Learning, and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

Pay

The hourly wage range for this position is $22.00 to $30.00. The actual hourly rate will equal or exceed the required minimum wage applicable to the job location. Additional compensation in the form of premiums may be paid in amounts ranging from $0.35 per hour to $3.00 per hour in specific circumstances. Premiums may be based on schedule, facility, season, or specific work performed. Multiple premiums may apply if applicable criteria are met.