Produce Lead

Position Summary

As a Produce Department Lead you will drive sales in your area and supervise your team of hourly associates to deliver to our members more of what they love, for less. You will model expertise in Produce and work collaboratively with other team leaders to ensure the total club meets the member’s expectations.

• Be a Team Leader – supervises the team in Produce and Floral area to deliver on the business plan and contribute to the overall success of the club.
• Communicates the goals of the department, executes company programs, adheres to policies, and advocates for the member, the associate, and the company.
• Be an Expert – maintains an in‑depth knowledge of business on the floor and backroom operations, ensuring the produce area meets company standards for quality, inventory, production, sanitation, equipment usage, safety, and compliance.
• Manages seasonality in terms of item volume, product knowledge, processes, and prioritizing time between areas.
• Collaborates with associates 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; adopts new tools and encourages 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 for the team and the members.
• Maintains adequate staffing levels, accurate audit and compliance standards, produces and displays merchandise according to the merchandise layout plan, and models a commitment to member service.
• Be a Talent Ambassador – trains the team to be highly effective; identifies the potential and desire in others, provides and develops necessary skills to deliver high‑quality products to the members; encourages career growth for all associates and sources new talent internally and externally.
• 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, and 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; implements 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 adapt to change or new challenges.
• Respects 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, and helps to attract the best talent.
• Strengthens the team – helps develop and mentor others, recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.
• Act with Integrity – maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance, models Walmart values, 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.
• Serves 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 teams ability to…