Department Manager Produce

Safeway; Nome (AK); In loco; USD 45.000 - 65.000; Tempo pieno

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Albertson’s in Nome, AK is seeking a Produce Department Supervisor to lead daily operations, ensure product freshness, and deliver excellent customer service. You will oversee staff, manage inventory, and coordinate displays while maintaining safety and company policies. Strong leadership and attention to detail are essential for success in this role.

The position emphasizes promotional merchandising, cost controls, and accurate record-keeping within a fast-paced retail environment.

Mansioni

• Supervise daily Produce Dept to meet customer service, sales and profit goals.
• Direct and train produce personnel; monitor performance and recommend hiring/firing actions.
• Schedule staff to ensure adequate coverage and service levels.
• Perform daily inspections for freshness, quality, sanitation and safety.

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• Champions Company and Division customer service programs to meet or exceed Division customer service goals. Handles customer relations in a positive manner, including effective resolution of customer complaints. Promotes Albertson’s philosophy of personalized service in the produce department.
• Supervising the day to day functions of the produce department to achieve customer service, and sales and profit objectives.
• Supervises, motives, directs, trains and in the hiring of produce personnel. Monitors associate performance and recommends personnel actions such as hiring, firing, layoff and disciplinary actions. Schedules personnel to ensure adequate coverage and service levels and to meet department budgetary objectives.
• Conducts daily inspections of all produce sections and initiates corrective measures to ensure compliance with product freshness and quality. Rotates products, discards outdated or spoiled product and maintains in stock conditions, sanitation and safety requirements.
• Assists with all produce duties such as: receiving, cleaning, trimming, cutting, watering and displaying.
• Implements effective promotional and seasonal displays. Controls shrink and expenses. Accurately completes and monitors daily log sheet, purchase report, and sales and labor and other required paperwork and logs. Maintains records on ad items movement.
• Orders, checks, receives and controls inventory to ensure adequate proper inventory level, product quality, eye appeal and freshness. Checks for and prevent the sale of out-dated or spoiled products. Takes periodic inventories, processes administrative paperwork and maintains accurate department records. Maintains and organizes Produce Department work area and cooler.
• Ensures produce quality, freshness and quantity standards are met.
• Ensures proper merchandising of product by understanding and implementing schematics, merchandising of advertised items, proper signing procedures and monitoring product flow. Complies with retail labeling laws, federal and state regulations and Company policies. Complies with all federal, state and local health and food safety standards.
• Creates effective promotional and seasonal displays. Checks competitors for comparisons on prices, product variety and merchandising procedures.
• Assists customers by making product suggestions and engages in suggestive selling. Makes intercom announcements.
• Ensures cleanliness and sanitation of sales floor and work area, cooler, equipment, wet boxes and cases.
• Assists with answering and responding incoming calls appropriately. Receives and appropriately resolves customer complaints and reports to the Store Director as appropriate.
• Assists with implementing emergency procedures in the event of equipment and computer software malfunctions.
• Ensures that all associates are trained and instructed in the proper performance of work duties. Monitors associate performance and reports observations to the Store Director. Resolves associate complaints and reports to the Store Director as appropriate.
• Maintains confidentiality concerning associates, store sales and other Company information.
• Responsible for performing all job duties and responsibilities safely, accurately and with honesty and integrity.