Assistant Deli & Meat Manager

For many people, it's the opportunity to work for an inclusive, local, values driven business that provides healthy, delicious, and sustainable foods to their community; it's also about people - the ability to work with a great team to create amazing customer experiences. Whatever your reason for joining us, know this, working with us makes a difference!

The Assistant Deli & Meat Manager position works directly with the Deli & Meat Manager, with a focus on Meat & Cheese, to maintain, grow, and run a successful team, ensuring excellent customer outcomes, effective team leadership, a positive and safe work environment, organized and efficient operations, a visually appealing space, sound financial outcomes and the production and packaging of high-quality foods.

Specific areas of accountability include customer service, onboarding and training, shift supervision, support of general operations, safety and sanitation, purchasing, merchandising, and financial duties.

This is a union position.

Location:

622 Selby Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55104

Schedule:

Sunday - Thursday. Current shifts available may vary and can include day, evening, weekend, and holiday hours to meet department needs. Flexibility required to meet business needs.

• Customer Service:
  Proven ability to provide excellent customer service and experience, utilizing feedback and knowledge to find solutions to customers' issues promptly and efficiently, maintaining a professional demeanor even in challenging situations; ability to seek feedback from customers to continuously improve the customer experience
• Food Service:
  Direct experience with food preparation including oversight of quality and safety
• Training and Development
  
  Skills:
  
  Ability to coordinate, and deliver effective training; skilled in explaining information in a clear and understandable manner, using various methods and resources to facilitate learning based on individual needs; ability to seek feedback and adjust strategies
• Communication:
  Proven interpersonal skills for effective and professional interactions with staff, managers, and other departments; ability to communicate departmental and organizational goals, policies, and changes clearly to staff, ensuring everyone is on the same page; effective communication of department needs and ideas to leadership
• Leadership
  
  Skills:
  
  Proven ability to contribute to a positive, inclusive, professional work environment; experienced in providing day to day direction, feedback, and coaching to staff; desire to grow as people leaders and support staff development
• Prioritization and Time Management:
  Proven ability to efficiently organize and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines and achieve department objectives ensuring alignment with organizational goals; ability to delegate effectively to departmental staff as appropriate
• Problem Solving and Decision Making:
  Ability to identify issues and develop timely solutions, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations, resolving customer concerns, and staffing issues effectively and calmly during challenging situations
• Adaptability and Resiliency:
  Proven ability to be flexible and adaptable, persevering when faced with obstacles to overcome challenges and achieve goals; ability to support team through changing circumstances and processes while fostering teamwork and positive morale
• Technical
  
  Skills:
  
  Basic to intermediate computer skills including web browsing and Microsoft Office and/or Office 365; basic math skills; ability to timely and accurately perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division

• Retail
  
  Experience:
  
  Experience working in a fast-paced grocery retail setting
• Industry Knowledge:
  Familiarity with natural foods industry, meat, seafood and cheese products strongly preferred
• Team Leadership:
  Supervisory experience including hiring, training, coaching, and providing feedback to support team development
• Financial Acumen:
  Demonstrated experience working within a budget, limiting costs, managing inventory, and achieving product margins to maximize revenue and contribute to financial goals; proven ability to achieve outcomes that support departmental goals
• Serv Safe Certification
• Microsoft Excel:
  Proficient in Microsoft Excel including ability to navigate spreadsheets and familiarity of basic functions, such as copy/paste, calculate sums

Our pay and benefits focus on meeting the financial, health, and wellness needs of our staff. They include:

• 20%…