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 executing company programs, adhering to policies, and being an advocate for the member, the associate, and the company. Works collaboratively with other team leaders to ensure the total club is meeting the members expectations.

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 handheld technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, training and product quality and adopting new tools and encouraging 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, producing and displaying merchandise according to the merchandise layout plan and modelling a commitment to member service.

Be a Talent Ambassador:
Teaches and 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 to work on the team, develops, communicates and implements processes and practices to meet business needs, analyzing and applying information from multiple sources, monitoring progress and results, and identifying and addressing 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 modelling and helping others with 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, create opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform, and help 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 developing and mentoring others, recognizing others contributions and accomplishments.

Act with Integrity:
Maintain and promote the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance, model the 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 with Integrity:
Act in a self‑less manner and is consistently…