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.

Be a Team Leader:
Supervise the team within all prepared foods departments such as 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:
Maintain 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. Manage seasonality in terms of production, understanding new products, recipes, processes, and production specifications, prioritizing time between areas.

Collaborate with associates and third parties ensuring the team has resources to do their job effectively, sharing knowledge and training the team.

Be a Techie:
Leverage digital tools to plan for and drive sales, improve the shopping experience and elevate associate engagement. Utilize hand‑held technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, training and product quality, adopt new tools and encourage others to use them.

Be an Owner:
Drive business results, ensuring commitment to operational excellence, planning for profitability, maintaining a neat, clean and safe work area, ensuring appropriate staffing levels and accurate audit and compliance standards, producing and displaying merchandise according to the merchandise layout plan, and engaging with other departments and third‑party business partners (maintenance personnel, suppliers, equipment vendors) to ensure operational continuity.

Be a Talent Ambassador:
Teach and train the team by identifying training needs, providing and developing necessary skills, encouraging career growth for team members, and sourcing new talent internally and externally to work on the team. Develop, communicate, and implement processes and practices to meet business needs by collaborating with managers, coworkers, customers, and other business partners; analyze and apply information from multiple sources, monitor progress and results, and identify and address improvement opportunities.

Demonstrate, promote and support compliance with company policies, procedures and standards of ethics and integrity, explaining and demonstrating how to apply these in executing business processes and practices. Lead and participate 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 how to adapt to change or new challenges.

Respect the Individual:
Embrace differences in people, cultures, ideas and experiences, create a workplace where associates feel seen, supported and connected through a culture of belonging, and create opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform, helping to attract the best talent; work as a team, build strong and trusting relationships, communicate with impact, energy and positivity to motivate and influence, strengthen the team by helping develop and mentor others, recognize others’ contributions and accomplishments.

Act with Integrity:
Maintain and promote the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; model Walmart values to support and foster our culture; hold oneself and others accountable; support Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members and the world around us; act in a selfless manner…