Assistant Meat Manager

Ridley's Family Markets, Inc.; Gunnison (CO); On-site; USD 22,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Ridley's Family Markets, Inc. is seeking a Meat Department team member with strong customer service and meat-cutting experience. The role involves ensuring accurate pricing, proper merchandising, and maintaining inventory while delivering friendly service to guests.

You will collaborate with store leadership to meet sales goals, uphold safety standards, and train peers on meat production techniques. This is a full-time on-site position in Colorado.

Qualifications

• Must have previous meat experience.
• Basic math skills including money, weight, measurement, and percentages.
• Understand gross projections, weekly summaries, and inventory reports.
• Must be 18+ years old; 21+ to sell tobacco/alcohol where applicable.
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.

Responsibilities

• Exhibit and develop maximum customer relations through friendly and courteous behavior.
• Promote a high level of morale within department and store with honest communication.
• Maintain good working relationships with other department managers to improve storewide sales.
• Assist in planning, organization, and direction of Meat Department activities.
• Cost out all materials to determine proper retail prices.
• Teach fundamentals of meat production including cutting, slicing, wrapping, and finishing.
• Assist in controlling department labor and inventory within budgets and guidelines.
• Conduct receiving, storing, pricing and merchandising of meat products.
• Maintain department records.

Skills

Customer service

Communication skills

Basic math

Tools

Pallet jack

Forklift

Knives & cutting equipment

Job description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty with accuracy and maintain a high level of productivity. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Possible ‘Reasonable Accommodations’ will be researched to determine if any are available to enable individuals with disabilities to perform any essential job duties.

1. Exhibit and develop maximum customer relations through friendly and courteous behavior.
2. Promote a high level of morale within department and store, utilizing friendly but professional methods of honest and open communication.
3. Maintain good working relationships with other department managers with the objective of improving sales storewide.
4. At all times remember that our success will be dependent upon our ability to work together.
5. Comply with all company policies, programs and directives as specified in the Code of Conduct.
6. Provide professional examples for other store team members to follow.
7. Assist in the planning, organization, and direction of the activities of the Meat Department.
8. Know and have the ability to cost out all material to determine proper retails.
9. Possess sufficient knowledge and ability to teach others all fundamentals of meat production. This will include cutting, slicing, scaling, wrapping, and finishing.
10. Assist in maintaining effective control of department labor and inventory in line with established budgets and guidelines.
11. Assist in maintaining effective department security in compliance with company policy and directives.
12. Maintain an awareness of competitive activity within the store marketing areas at all times as it relates to the Meat Department. Also, maintain awareness and concern for the company's interest and investment at all times through the regular practice of sound, honest judgment.
13. Conduct the receiving, storing, pricing and merchandising of all meat products.
14. Maintain adequate and appropriate department records at all times.

Requirements

CERTIFICATES/LICENSES:

City, county, state, and/or federal certifications may be required including food handlers.

COMMUNICATION:

• Ability to write, speak, hear, and understand the spoken to respond promptly to pages, requests, team members and guests.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance manuals.

COMPUTER:

Basic Computer Skill Preferred.

EQUIPMENT:

Required to use or operate pallet jack, forklift, box cutters, ordering machine, computer, two-wheeler, etc. Including knives and cutting equipment.

EXPERIENCE

Must have previous meat experience.

MATH:

• Basic math skills required. Basic math skills using units of money, weight, measurement, volume addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and percentages required.
• An understanding of gross projections, transmittals, weekly summaries, invoices, transfers, labor goals, inventory, and other paperwork as assigned by store management is required.

MINIMUM AGE:

• 18 years of age.
• 21 years of age required to sell tobacco products and/or alcohol.

REASON ABILITY:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form or when helping resolve a team member or guest concern. Ability to lift up to 50lbs. or more.