Meat Manager Montgomery

Job Details:

Job Location:

301 FFL Piggly Wiggly Montgomery 1 Mobile Hwy AL - Montgomery, AL 36108, Position Type:
Full Time,

Position Title:

Meat Manager

The Meat Department Manager oversees the complete operational, financial, and regulatory execution of the Meat and Seafood department. This leadership role is responsible for driving sales and gross profit margins, managing inventory logistics, controlling shrink, scheduling labor, and ensuring strict compliance with USDA, OSHA, and local health department sanitation codes. The manager provides continuous coaching to market staff and steps in to perform custom meat-cutting duties as business dictates.

• Professional Conduct:
  Remain courteous, attentive, and professional with customers, vendors, and peers. Represent the company positively both on the clock and while wearing the uniform outside of work.
• Safety & Compliance:
  Follow all safety rules and procedures, ensuring the store and department remain in full compliance with safety regulations at all times.
• Attendance:
  Maintain dependable attendance and punctuality for every scheduled shift.

• Profitability Management:
  Analyze sales reports, track departmental expenses, and order inventory to maximize gross profit margins. Control operational shrinkage, waste, and pilferage to meet budgeted targets.
• Inventory Allocation:
  Manage, track, and audit physical inventory records to compute monthly gross margins. Balance supply chains to minimize out-of-stock and overstock situations, ensuring peak product freshness.
• Logistics & Receiving:
  Personally supervise or execute the unloading, receiving, and verification of incoming freight. Ensure products are instantly moved to refrigerated storage to maintain cold-chain compliance.

• Labor Scheduling:
  Build efficient labor schedules that align with peak shopping hours, sales targets, and wage budgets.
• Skills Training:
  Lead specialized trade skills training (e.g., proper cutting yields, merchandising, knife safety) and delegate tasks to maximize team efficiency.
• Performance Logs:
  Maintain accurate administrative records on associate performance, training milestones, and disciplinary history in coordination with store management.

• Display Standards:
  Plan and execute localized merchandising layouts to achieve sales goals. Monitor fresh meat cases daily to ensure perfect product rotation, accurate weighing, strict pricing compliance, and clear signage.
• Cross-Department
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Communicate with store leadership and other departments to design and support targeted marketing or seasonal sales plans.

• Standards Enforcement:
  Enforce safety, sanitation, and food handling standards mandated by state, federal, OSHA, and Weights and Measures regulations.
• Equipment Supervision:
  Ensure all department associates operate commercial machinery (e.g., band saws, grinders, slicers, cubers) safely and utilize mandatory Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) like steel-mesh cut-resistant gloves.
• Preventive Maintenance:
  Conduct inspections of all market equipment. Practice preventive care and immediately report any mechanical repair or structural issues to store management.

• Trade Support:
  Actively welcome and receive customer orders. Maintain the required technical skill set to perform standard trimming, boning, and cutting duties on the bench in the absence of available meat-cutting staff.

• Financial Literacy:
  Ability to interpret gross margin data, cutting tests, yield percentages, and basic profit and…