(USA) Prepared Food Lead

About the role

As a Prepared Foods and Café Department Lead, you will drive sales in your area and supervise a team of hourly associates who create and serve meals to members, delivering value and quality. You will model expertise in Prepared Foods and Café, collaborate with other team leaders, and ensure the club meets member expectations.

Responsibilities

• Be a Team Leader: Supervise the team across all prepared foods departments (e.g., café, rotisserie, prepared foods). Facilitate rotations, manage member needs, communicate goals, execute company programs, and advocate for members, associates, and the company.
• Be an Expert: Maintain in-depth knowledge of floor and backroom operations, ensuring the prepared foods area meets company and regulatory standards for quality, inventory, production, sanitation, equipment usage, safety, and compliance. Manage seasonality in production, understand new products/recipes/processes, and prioritize time across areas. Collaborate with associates and third parties to ensure the team has necessary resources.
• Be a Techie: Leverage digital tools to plan for and drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement. Use handheld technology to make real-time business decisions related to production, training, and product quality. Adopt new tools and encourage their use by the team.
• Be an Owner: Drive business results by ensuring operational excellence, planning for profitability, and maintaining a neat, clean, and safe work area. Ensure appropriate staffing levels, accurate audit and compliance standards, and merchandise display according to the layout plan. Engage with other departments and third-party partners (e.g., maintenance, suppliers, vendors) to ensure operational continuity.
• Be a Talent Ambassador: Teach and train the team by identifying training needs, developing skills to deliver high-quality products, encouraging career growth, and sourcing new talent internally and externally. Develop, communicate, and implement processes to meet business needs by collaborating with managers, coworkers, and customers. Monitor progress, identify improvement opportunities, and support compliance with company policies and ethical standards.
• Respect the Individual: Embrace differences in people, cultures, and ideas. Foster a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected. Create opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform. Build strong, trusting relationships, communicate with impact, and motivate the team. Recognize contributions and mentor others.
• Act with Integrity: Maintain and promote high standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance. Model Walmart’s values to support and foster culture. Hold yourself and others accountable. Support Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world.
• Serve our Customers and Members: Deliver results while prioritizing the customer. Make decisions based on reliable information, balancing short- and long-term priorities. Consider how your work impacts the team’s ability to deliver on the company’s purpose.
• Strive for Excellence: Display curiosity and a desire to learn. Take calculated risks, demonstrate courage and resilience, and drive continuous improvement. Be open to new technologies and skills, and support others through change.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications:
  • 6 months of experience in a fresh production department or 6 months of experience supervising a team.
  • Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience supervising a team.
  • Food Handler Certification (Food Safety).

Benefits

• Health benefits: Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits: 401(k), stock purchase plan, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off: PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting leave. PTO/PPTO for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes, with amounts based on job classification and length of employment.
• Additional benefits: Short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
• Education benefits: Live Better U, a company-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates. Covers high school completion, bachelor’s degrees, English Language Learning, and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are fully paid by Walmart. Eligibility requirements apply.

Benefits are subject to change and may depend on job classification and length of employment. For details, see One.Walmart.

Pay

The hourly wage range for this position is $22.00 to $30.00. The actual hourly rate will meet or exceed the minimum wage applicable to the job location. Additional compensation in the form of premiums may apply in specific circumstances, 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.

Primary Location: 4949 Houston Rd, Florence, KY 41042-1365, United States of America.