Meat Manager

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Promotes excellent customer relations by instilling positive customer focused behavior with associates.
• Smiles and greets customers, answers questions, and resolves customer concerns promptly in a polite and professional manner.
• Focuses on continuous improvement in all areas of the department and makes changes to ensure progress.
• Takes customer orders over the phone or in person at the store with a pleasant and positive attitude.
• Determines what the customer is looking for in terms of size and appearance.
• Creates finished products in a timely fashion.
• Cuts and trims product.
• Develops and implements localized merchandising plans, sets up and creates displays for new or seasonal items to drive sales.
• Maintains communication with other departments and the store manager to devise cross‑merchandising plans to meet financial objectives.
• Monitors competitor activity concerning merchandising, pricing, quality, and comparison signage.
• Schedules all Meat associates, oversees and participates in training, rewards and recognizes performance and delegates work assignments to effectively utilize talents and abilities while maximizing profits for the department.
• Participates in associate annual performance reviews and new‑hire interviews.
• Uses the Learning Management System (LMS) for current and new associates.
• Manages inventory levels and reviews orders to ensure product quantities meet customer demand.
• Maintains backroom organization and product storage within company guidelines.
• Oversees shelf replenishment to ensure product availability for customers, prioritizing weekly specials and high‑velocity items.
• Utilizes cutting list for accuracy and variety of product.
• Checks and verifies all department deliveries and invoices to ensure accurate billing.
• Might help unload merchandise and transport to the sales floor or storage area.
• Enforces and follows department practices regarding receiving, dating and restocking to ensure product rotation.
• Monitors product quality and freshness.
• Breaks down deliveries.
• Controls department expenses by improving operations and efficiencies, controlling labor costs and reducing losses due to damages, spoiled product and shrink.
• Ensures associates correctly follow company recipes for prepared products.
• Removes and records out‑of‑code products to maintain freshness.
• Completes required product logs.
• Keeps meat department cases well stocked and appealing to meet customer demand.
• Sets up displays and rotates product as needed.
• Handles product that is spoiled, damaged or close to expiration as detailed by company procedures and standards.
• Removes product that is not saleable to ensure quality.
• May grind and cut certain meats and poultry.
• Weighs and wraps merchandise at customer request and applies stickers showing correct price and weight.
• Maintains necessary logs to track freshness and quality.
• Adheres to all food and personal safety codes when handling product or utilizing kitchen tools.
• Maintains backroom and receiving area security and organization by promoting 5S procedures.
• Responsible for general sanitation in the department.
• Follows cleaning schedules and department guidelines to ensure that work areas, equipment, counters, display cases, etc. are well maintained, clean and meet all health and OSHA requirements.
• Disposes of trash properly.
• Empties bone cans.
• Might assist with baling cardboard or other related duties if properly trained (training provided).
• Ensures smooth function of department and store by cooperating with co‑workers and superiors.
• Continuously improves job performance.
• Utilizes all company provided Personal Protected Equipment (PPE) including but not limited to cut‑resistant gloves, safety cutters, company‑sponsored footwear, etc.
• May also be called upon to assist in other departments.

Supervises associates within the department and may assume total leadership of the building in the absence of store management. The specific number of associates under supervision depends upon store size and presence of store management.

• High School diploma or general education degree (GED) required.
• Associate or bachelor's…