Bakery Deli Manager - Sedalia West

Bakery Deli Manager

At Woods Supermarket, the teammates’ role is more than just a job; it’s an opportunity. Teammates gain life experience that goes far beyond just serving great products in a friendly and fun environment. Woods Supermarket is an opportunity for people of all ages and backgrounds. We are looking for hard‑working, team‑oriented, friendly, and honest people. Perks of being a Woods Supermarket teammate include flexible hours, competitive pay, teammate discount, and a positive atmosphere!

Reports to: Store Manager

A Bakery Deli Manager is a friendly, enthusiastic person who enjoys serving and leading our Bakery Deli teammates. This role is responsible for a variety of complex tasks within the company. The Bakery Deli Manager supervises the day‑to‑day Bakery Deli activities, ensures overall performance, identifies staffing needs, manages schedules, and develops operational action plans while mentoring the team.

• Develop and achieve department budgets and targeted sales.
• Excel in guest service by developing a guest service program for all department teammates.
• Initiate recommendations regarding hiring, firing, discipline, promotion, and evaluation of department personnel.
• Conduct department meetings to review merchandising, sales planning, and operational problems while keeping teammates informed of matters that affect them.
• Train and retrain all department personnel as necessary.
• Develop a weekly labor schedule and budget for all department teammates for approval by the Store Manager.
• Develop weekly display plans for merchandising and ad promotions to:
  • Ensure displays are full
  • Emphasize color contrast
  • Rotate product
  • Group commodities
  • Set displays to the season
  • Allocate adequate space based on movement, capacity, and profitability
• Be observant of security problems and develop methods of prevention.
• Supervise:
• Preparation for receipt of merchandise
• Checking loads for quality, shortage, overage, and code dating of cases
• Sorting cases by quality
• Storage of inventory
• Verification of merchandise against the invoice
• Supervise:
• Cleaning of department floors, mirrors, bins, tables, cooler, shelves, production equipment, scales, cases, and racks
• Safe use of cleaning equipment and chemicals
• Training department team on the proper use of slicer, oven, fryers, and mixers
• Training department team on proper cleaning
• Understanding and following the Lock‑Out‑Tag‑Out policy
• Understanding the use of Temp Logs and 2‑hour holding temps
• Assuring safety of self, guests, and teammates by understanding and practicing store safety rules and notifying the Store Manager of any potential hazard immediately
• Supervising safety procedures for baler, case cutter, pallet jack, forklift, knife, garbage disposal, juicer, pineapple corer, scales, and wrapper (must be 18 years or older to operate pallet jack, forklift, and baler)
• Counting and recording individual items of merchandise for inventory
• Computing the retail price from cost, completing price changes, PLU file and scale system maintenance, and manual price labeling of merchandise without an UPC code
• Supervising movement of damaged, unusable, or returnable products from shelves to the backroom, returning damage to the warehouse for credit, and re‑processing product for sale or marking down price
• Supervising proper case opening and product stacking techniques to prevent damage to product
• Supervising changing of signs, light bulbs, tags, and price markers in the department
• Communicating with the Store Manager on problems, recommendations for change, and merchandising decisions
• Adhering to FIFO stocking rules, consistently rotating product on the sales floor
• Using correct channels to request credits on any less than perfect product, and recording invoice and credit information on an almost daily basis
• Supervising the checking of case and cooler temperatures four times daily
• Supervising the preparation, display, and packaging of all products in the deli department
• Performing miscellaneous tasks assigned by the Store Manager, substituting for absent teammates, and performing any additional tasks needed during peak periods

• Inside work with extreme variations…