Meat Lead

Position Summary

As a Meat 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 Meat and work collaboratively with other team leaders to ensure the total club meets the member’s expectations.

Be a Team Leader - Supervises the team within the meat department to deliver on the business plan and contribute to the overall success of the club by 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 - Maintains an in‑depth knowledge of business on the floor, backroom operations, product updates and product specifications by ensuring the meat department meets company and regulatory standards for quality, inventory, production, equipment usage, safety, sanitation, and compliance. Shares knowledge and prioritizes training for the team to understand the item specifications and utilize the approved equipment for high‑volume products, engaging with members and sharing passion of the product to help them make the right protein selection.

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 adopts new tools encouraging others to use them.

Be an Owner - Drives the business results ensuring commitment to operational excellence, maintaining a neat, clean and safe work area in the meat department. Utilizes digital tools for forecasting, planning and production, facilitates the product inventory and ordering process, ensures appropriate staffing levels and accurate audit and compliance standards, ensuring meat and seafood equipment and storage systems are in working order, producing and displaying merchandise according to the merchandise layout plan.

Be a Talent Ambassador - Teaches and trains the team by identifying training needs, providing and developing necessary skills to deliver high‑quality products, encouraging career growth for team members and sourcing new talent internally and externally to work on the team. Develops, communicates and implements processes and practices to meet business needs by collaborating with managers, coworkers, customers and other business partners, analyzing information from multiple sources, monitoring progress and results, and identifying improvement opportunities.

Demonstrates, promotes and supports compliance with company policies, procedures and standards of ethics and integrity.

Works as a team, builds strong and trusting relationships, communicates with impact, energy and positivity to motivate and influence. Strengthens the team by helping develop and mentor others, recognizing others’ contributions and accomplishments.

Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self‑aware, honest, fair and transparent. 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 team's ability to deliver on our purpose for all stakeholders. Demonstrates curiosity, desire to learn, takes calculated risks and demonstrates courage and resilience.

Drives continuous improvements, is open to and uses new technologies and skills, and supports others through change.

• Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage
• Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company‑paid life insurance
• Paid time off benefits include PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. PTO and/or PPTO can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
• Other benefits include short‑term and long‑term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

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