Deli Evening Shift Supervisor

La-Montanita-Food-Cooperative; Santa Fe (NM); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

La Montañita Food Cooperative in Santa Fe, NM is seeking a Deli Shift Supervisor to lead daily deli operations, ensuring customers receive welcoming, helpful service while maintaining safety and cleanliness standards.

The role involves processing, stocking, and merchandising deli products, enforcing freshness, sanitation, and regulatory guidelines, and supporting a positive team environment.

Qualifications

• Customer service focused with the ability to greet and assist customers.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to teach and mentor others.
• Food safety certification or ability to obtain within 1 month.
• Commitment to safety, PPE, and wellness guidelines.
• Ability to adapt to changing work environment.
• Reliable and able to work with a diverse team.
• Strong multitasking and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Oversee deli operations including processing, packaging, labeling, and merchandising.
• Maintain deli cleanliness, safety, and appearance to customers.
• Assist with inventories, stocking, and rotation of deli items.
• Ensure products meet freshness and sanitary standards.
• Provide friendly, professional customer service and answer questions.

Skills

Customer service

Communication skills

Teaching ability

Food safety certification

Safety compliance

Team player

Integrity and confidentiality

Multitasking

Job description

Description

The Deli Shift Supervisor is first and foremost responsible for customer relations and satisfaction. The Deli Shift Supervisor is also responsible for ensuring the department maintains its cleanliness, safety and appeal to customers (may also assist other departments in these areas on occasions). Duties include all deli processing (cutting, packaging and merchandising), sanitation, safety, and stocking procedures on all products while removing expired products from displays. Most importantly, the Deli Shift Supervisor will make all customers feel welcomed by acknowledging or greeting each customer and providing genuine, helpful, and respectful customer service.

SOME FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Orders, receives, and merchandises deli products following proper guidelines for merchandising, rotation, sanitation, pricing, mechanizing, and quality standards.
• Maintains a working knowledge of all deli products as well as non-deli items throughout the store to respond to customers to ensure they get the products they want and need.
• Adequately accepts, orders, receives, prepares, packages, labels, displays, stocks, replenishes floor stock and inventories merchandise.
• Follows department procedures for processing known loss, invoices discrepancies, special orders, and transfers.
• Helps customers make product selections by answering questions and providing information about all deli items.
• Ensures accurate and sanitary product processing, packaging, labeling, dating, and pricing according to department procedures.
• Creates and maintains an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important, and appreciated by answering questions regarding products sold within the department and throughout the store by providing excellent customer service.
• Assists in inventory counts, storewide cleaning, and other projects as needed.
• Reinforces safety within the store by complying with safety procedures and identify unsafe conditions and notify store management or addressing the concern if appropriate.
• Ensures federal, state, local and La Montañita Food Cooperative regulations and standards for product freshness, safety, refrigeration, sanitation and weights and measures are being adhered to and met.
• Maintains presentation and quality standards in the department.
• Follows proper procedures for opening and closing.
• Maintains and updates as needed ServSafe® certification.
• Under the direction of the department team leader, coordinates, evaluates, and ensures completion of daily tasks of department clerks to the standards and expectations.
• Notifies the department management promptly of department team member performance concerns or potential policy violations.
• Monitors and ensures that staff keep work areas neat, clean and orderly.
• Contacts department management and Store Support for assistance as needed.
• Serves and acts a role model, provides, and ensures customers receive prompt, friendly and courteous service in a professional manner.

Requirements

ATTRIBUTES AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Customer service skills (able to complete the full customer service cycle).
• Effective communication skills
• Capable of teaching others positively and constructively.
• Food safety certification. If not currently certified, able to obtain certification within 1 month.
• Ability to adhere and follow safety, regulatory and wellness guidelines. Safety Conscious and adhering to required PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) is required.
• Good interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
• Able to act with integrity, ethically, professionalism, and confidentiality.
• Able to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner.
• Able to deal and adapt to changes in the work environment, industry with a calm professional demeanor.
• Dependable, reliable and self-motivated.
• Able to work with a diverse group of people.
• Strong team player, friendly and patient.
• Excellent ability to prioritize and multi-task with attention to detail.