Assistant Meat Manager

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintains an atmosphere of enthusiastic customer awareness with an emphasis on providing fast and friendly customer service.
• Assists customers by making product suggestions, filling special orders and food preparation suggestions.
• Engages in suggestive selling and other sales techniques via telephone, in-store intercom and oneon-one customer interaction.
• Assists with planning daily operations, monitoring the production process following company procedures and ensuring profitability.
• Trims, cuts, wraps, trays and displays meat; builds meat and seafood displays, rotates and discards outdated or spoiled product; ensures cleanliness of work area and department.
• Implements effective promotional and seasonal displays; may be responsible for the operation and maintenance of meat cooler, freezer and butcher block.
• Follows and maintains department standards and requirements in handling quick sales items.
• Assists with ensuring trim specifications and cutting standards are followed; ensures temperatures are maintained in all phases of meat preparation, display and storage; schedules, supervises, trains and assigns duties to department employees.
• Has specific knowledge of duties performed by all department employees.
• Understands opening and closing department procedures.
• Trains employees on store policies, sales and record‑keeping procedures.
• Has working knowledge of company policies and guidelines as outlined in the Albertsons/Tom Thumb Employee Handbook.
• Is responsible for ensuring proper code dating for all products within the department is enforced.
• Assists with preparing sales and inventory reports; physical inventory taken every 4 weeks.
• Controls shrink and cost.
• Assists with controlling inventory to ensure adequate product quantity, quality and freshness; maintains inventory levels according to division directives; stocks, rotates product and maintains and organizes meat cooler.
• Implements correct product preparation techniques; uses and operates related equipment such as pallet jack, hand truck, scissors, knives, grinder, saw, saw blades, safety cutters and cuber.
• Assists with accurately completing, maintaining and monitoring daily log sheet, Production Chart, Meat Grinding Log, Sales and Labor and other required paperwork and logs.
• Performs receiving duties including breaking down loads, verifying orders using invoices, inspecting quality, reporting shortages, stocking and rotating product; adheres to product temperature and storage guidelines and follows proper packaging techniques; processes administrative paperwork and maintains accurate department records.
• Ensures that proper temperature levels for product are maintained; ensures proper signing of products to include accurate pricing and Country of Origin Labeling (COOL); complies with retail labeling laws, federal and state regulations, company and code dating policies.
• Complies with all workplace safety rules and regulations.