Cheese Shop/Murray's Cheese

Kroger; Pinckney (MI); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Murray's Cheese Shop in Pinckney, MI is seeking a passionate team member to cut, wrap, and merchandise cheese and related items. You will engage customers with daily tastings and interactive demos, guiding them through product selections while supporting sales goals.

The ideal candidate has retail experience, strong customer service skills, and a genuine enthusiasm for cheese. Training and a dynamic, high-energy shop environment await.

Qualifications

• Retail experience essential.
• Interest in cheese and willingness to taste daily.
• Ability to communicate ideas to diverse audiences.
• Desire to learn and support initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Cut, wrap, and merchandise cheese and related grocery items.
• Active demoing within Murray's Cheese Shop, Deli and other areas.
• Proactive customer service: ongoing conversations and tasting with customers.
• Daily cheese tastings to develop product expertise; must be willing to taste cheese every day.
• Contribute to target sales and gross profit goals.
• Follow health, safety and sanitation guidelines for all products.
• Comply with Murray's operations manual and ensuring consistently fully stocked, fresh, signed, rotated product selection.
• Complete Murray's Basic Skills Training and Murray's Red Jacket Training.
• Create and maintain Murray's Boutique experience: education, service, effective cross-selling, merchandising, pushing and promoting designated products.

Skills

Retail experience

Customer service

Cheese knowledge

Enthusiasm for learning

Communication skills

Sales focus

Job description

Responsible for learning and supporting a full-service Murray's experience that will embody the food passion, cheese knowledge, interactive customer service, and industry leading merchandising that is uniquely Murray's Cheese. Work closely with in store Murray's Cheese Master to create an environment of outgoing, personal, theatrical cheese retailing within the store environment. Role model and demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety of others.

• Cut, wrap, and merchandise cheese and related grocery items.
• Active demoing within the Murray's Cheese Shop, Deli and other areas.
• Proactive customer service: ongoing conversations and tasting with customers.
• Daily cheese tastings to develop product expertise; must be willing to taste cheese every day.
• Contribute to target sales and gross profit goals.
• Follow health, safety and sanitation guidelines for all products.
• Comply with Murray's operations manual and ensuring consistently fully stocked, fresh, signed, rotated product selection.
• Complete Murray's Basic Skills Training and Murray's Red Jacket Training.
• Create and maintain Murray's Boutique experience: education, service, effective cross-selling, merchandising, pushing and promoting designated products.
• Must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Minimum

• A strong desire to learn, enthusiasm for the product, and an interest and willingness to try new and innovative approaches.
• Interest in, and openness to try, cheese daily
• Easily conveys ideas at the appropriate level based on audience
• Retail experience
• Super Foodie and supportive of cheese business initiatives
• Able to inspire, motivate customers while ensuring successful completion of all assigned tasks