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:
Supervise 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. Work collaboratively with other team leaders to ensure the total club is meeting the members’ expectations.

Be an Expert:
Maintain an in‑depth knowledge of business on the floor, back‑room operations, product updates and specifications by ensuring the meat department meets company and regulatory standards for quality, inventory, production, equipment usage, safety, sanitation, and compliance. Share knowledge and prioritize training for the team to understand item specifications and utilize approved equipment for high‑volume products. Engage with the members and share passion for the product to help them make the right protein selection.

Be a Techie:
Leverage digital tools to plan for and drive sales, improve the shopping experience and elevate associate engagement. Utilize handheld technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, training, and product quality, adopting new tools and encouraging others to use them. Be an Owner:
Drive the business results ensuring commitment to operational excellence, maintaining a neat, clean and safe work area in the meat department, utilizing digital tools for forecasting, planning and production, facilitating the product inventory and ordering process, ensuring 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:
Teach and train the team by identifying training needs, providing and developing necessary skills to deliver high‑quality products to the members, 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, analyzing and applying information from multiple sources, monitoring progress and results and identifying and addressing improvement opportunities.

Demonstrate, promote and support 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. 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 quality are achieved, and modeling and helping others 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 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, hold oneself and others accountable, support Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company, and make a…