Section Lead - Perishables - Redfern

Harris Farm; Sydney; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Harris Farm Markets is seeking a Store Leader to support the Store Manager, lead front-line teams and ensure exceptional customer experiences in a fast-paced fresh-food environment. You will roster departments, manage back-office tasks, and uphold safety and quality standards across the store.

The role requires retail leadership experience, a hands-on approach, and strong communication skills to build trust and engagement with staff and customers. Harris Farm welcomes diverse talent.

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams in a fresh food or supermarket setting.
• Customer-focused, hands-on leadership style.
• Strong communication and engagement skills.
• Confident managing performance, change and priorities.
• Commercial mindset with drive for continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead and motivate teams to deliver outstanding service.
• Drive sales, margin, stock control and labour performance.
• Coach and develop team members and future leaders.
• Ensure WHS, food safety and company standards compliance.
• Maintain high visual, quality and presentation standards.
• Run the store in the manager's absence.

Skills

Retail leadership

Customer focus

Communication

Performance management

Operational prioritization

Job description

At Harris Farm Markets, our stores are driven by passionate leaders who care deeply about people, product and customer experience. We’re looking for retail leaders to help lead high-performing teams in a fast-paced, fresh-food environment.

About us

Join a growing fresh food retail business known for delivering quality, value and an exceptional customer experience. At Harris Farm Markets, everything we do is driven by our purpose for the Greater Goodness, for our customers, our community, our planet, and each other.

As a proud family owned Australian business, you’ll be part of something bigger where your work truly matters.

Here, you will:

• Do meaningful work that contributes to something bigger
• Grow your career in more directions than one
• Build real connections with people who feel like family
• Be valued for who you are, every day

We reward our people fairly and offer benefits that genuinely matter because great people deserve great things.

We are currently searching for our next superstar Store Leaders!

You support the Store Manager by owning the admin and compliance for the store. You roster most departments, keep the back-office ticking, and make sure the store runs smoothly so your Store Manager can lead from the front. You're the person everyone comes to when something needs sorting.

Responsibilities

• Leading and motivating teams to deliver outstanding service
• Driving sales, margin, stock control and labour performance
• Coaching and developing team members and future leaders
• Ensuring compliance with WHS, food safety and company standards
• Maintaining high visual, quality and presentation standards
• Running the store in the absence of the store manager

About you

We are looking for someone who loves food, with previous experience working in a fresh food retail business.Additionally, we are looking for someone with:

• Experience in retail leadership (supermarket, fresh food or specialty retail highly regarded)
• Customer-focused, hands-on and lead from the front
• Strong communicators who build trust and engagement
• Confident managing performance, change and operational priorities
• Commercially minded with a passion for continuous improvement

Why you should apply

• If you like variety and love to be physically active
• Work with a highly successful business
• Value a career path

At Harris Farm, we welcome everyone, from all walks of life and all abilities.