Assistant Market Manager

Brookshire Grocery Company; Murphy (TX); On-site; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage

Paid time off

401(k) plan with company contributions

Exclusive employee discounts

Scholarships and educational support

Access to outdoor recreation areas

Job summary

A grocery retail chain in Texas seeks a market associate responsible for maintaining seafood and meat cases, ensuring freshness and quality. The role involves working with upper management to train team members, manage inventory, and promote customer engagement. Qualifications include a high school diploma, relevant experience in retail or meat cutting, and food safety certifications. The workplace offers a supportive environment with growth opportunities, ensuring all products are well-stocked and meet safety standards.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 18 years of age required.
• High school diploma or GED plus one or more years of related experience.
• Food Handler and Manager Food Safety certification required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure market and seafood cases are kept full and fresh.
• Train and develop partners alongside management.
• Maintain and improve sales performance.
• Ensure quality control and food safety standards.

Skills

Customer service skills

Food safety knowledge

Inventory management

Equipment operation

Communication skills

Teamwork

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Manual and electric pallet jack

Job description

At Brookshire Grocery Company (BGC), we’re not just about business—we’re about building a community where you can thrive. Based in Tyler, Texas, BGC is home to five unique banners—Brookshire's Grocery Company, Super 1 Foods, Spring Market, Fresh by Brookshire's, and Reasor's—operating over 215 stores across Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.

We’re all about creating a workplace where you can thrive. At BGC, you matter, your contributions are celebrated, and your future is unlimited. Whether you’re launching your career or ready to level up, you’ll find a supportive team, endless growth opportunities, and a chance to make an impact.

Here’s What Sets Us Apart

• Wellness that works for you: Comprehensive medical, vision, dental, and prescription coverage.
• Flexibility and freedom: Paid time off to relax, recharge, and enjoy life.
• Ownership that empowers: 401(k) plan to help you build a solid future that the Company contributes to.
• Savings for your lifestyle: Exclusive employee discounts on the things you need most.
• Investing in your dreams: Scholarships and educational support to fuel your growth.
• Adventure awaits: Access to a 205-acre outdoor recreation area for unwinding, connecting, and having fun.

When you join BGC, you’re not just starting a job—you’re becoming part of something bigger. We’re here to support your goals, inspire your journey, and celebrate your wins.

Job Summary

Ensures market and seafood cases are kept full, rotated, and fresh with prepackaged meats. Works with market personnel to cut, weigh, package, and label products as needed, and promotes customer service.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Works in conjunction with upper management to train and develop partners, schedule, plan, assign, and direct work.
• Supports upper management with the review of historical sales, ads and promotions data. Co‑manages inventory using item‑management processes to ensure satisfactory in‑stock levels. May review profit and loss, sales, shrink, and labor data with department manager.
• Independently responsible for maintaining and improving sales performance, financial results, public relations, product quality, and work standards.
• Checks inventory on trucks, unloads products, and ensures accuracy of inventory, product ordering, and associated paperwork.
• Cuts, weighs, packages, and labels product using non‑precision and precision tools to achieve desired sizes, shapes, and weights.
• Enforces quality control and food safety standards and ensures dated products are stocked and rotated properly. Makes fine judgements about aroma, texture, and color to inspect product for quality.
• Ensures that coolers and freezers are organized according to Company guidelines and adheres to all governmental product origin labeling.
• Promotes product sales through suggestive selling initiatives.
• Provides friendly, customer‑service‑oriented attitude by greeting customers, answering questions and taking orders by phone and in person.
• Maintains a clean, safe, and sanitary working and shopping environment by adhering to Company safety procedures.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Intermediate knowledge of market department operations.
• Intermediate knowledge of in‑store ordering machine and inventory management processes.
• Intermediate knowledge of scheduling software systems.
• Ability to read and operate digital equipment, meters, dials, and calibrated scales.
• Ability to safely operate and maintain department equipment.
• Ability to operate a manual or electric pallet jack.
• Ability to safely operate hazardous tools and equipment such as a bailer.
• Ability to safely work with sharp objects such as saws, meat grinders, knives, box cutters.
• Ability to use non‑precision and precision hand tools.
• Ability to work well with fellow partners and promote a team environment.
• Ability to effectively communicate (written and verbal) with customers and partners.
• Ability to work flexible schedules including nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Must be attentive to potential hazards, remedy them or place appropriate warning signs or devices, as soon as reasonably possible.
• Must report any potential hazards that cannot be immediately remedied to a supervisor.

Education, Experience And Qualifications

• Minimum of 18 years of age required.
• Partners must be 21 years of age or older to drive for Company business in accordance with the BGC Business Driver Policy.
• High school diploma or GED plus one or more years of related experience; or an equivalent combination of experience and/or higher education required. Preferable experience as a meatcutter, apprentice, and/or manager trainee.
• Food Handler certification required.
• Manager Food Safety certification required.

Physical Demands

• Continuously requires use of close vision, distance vision, depth perception, or the ability to focus.
• Continuously requires standing or walking.
• Frequently requires hands for reaching, touching, or handling.
• Frequently requires bending, kneeling, squatting, or stooping.
• Frequently requires pushing, pulling, maneuvering, or lifting objects up to 40 lbs.
• Frequently requires talking and hearing.
• Occasionally requires pushing, pulling, maneuvering, or lifting objects up to 75 lbs.
• Attendance at work is required.

Work Context And Environment

• Work is generally performed in a retail store.
• Frequently exposed to extreme cold conditions (non‑weather).
• Frequently exposed to wet, slippery, or damp conditions.
• Frequently exposed to equipment with sharp blades or edges.
• Frequently exposed to cleaning agents.
• Moderate to loud noise level.

Ready to find your place? BGC is “A Career Where You Belong.”

Brookshire Grocery Company strives to provide a safe, drug and alcohol‑free environment for its partners and customers. The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information or military status and any other trait protected by law.