Grocery Dept Leader: Merchandising & Team Growth

Whole Foods Market; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 29,687 - 48,216; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Whole Benefits

Store discount

Paid time off

Health & wellness support

Job summary

Whole Foods Market in Sunnyvale is seeking a Team Member to support daily operations, leadership, and merchandising. You will assist the Team Leader with sales targets, analyze reports, and develop product knowledge while fostering excellent teamwork.

Responsibilities include training Team Members, maintaining store standards, and ensuring health and safety regulations are followed. Flexible schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays is required.

Qualifications

• 18+ months retail Team Member experience and 6+ months of supervisory experience.

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains creative store layout and product merchandising.
• Works with Team Leader to achieve sales, purchasing, and labor targets.
• Assists Team Leader in analysis of sales, reports and labor.
• Demonstrates advanced product knowledge and develops / maintains awareness of new products.
• Maintains good vendor relationships, develops new vendor relations, and ensures all paperwork is properly submitted for vendor processing.
• Works with Team Leader to resolve team concerns or issues.
• Functions as point person and departmental person in charge in absence of Team Leader.
• Sets and achieves the highest standards of retail execution.
• Fosters and encourages a positive environment of outstanding teamwork, mutual respect, and exceptional morale.
• Maintains awareness of customer flows and needs and directs Team Members as necessary to satisfy and delight customers; responds promptly to customer needs and questions.
• Selects, trains, develops, mentors, motivates, and counsels Team Members in a manner that sustains a high-performance team and minimizes turnover.
• Provides timely, thorough, and thoughtful performance evaluations.
• Consistently communicates and models WFM vision and goals.

Skills

High energy

Growth mindset

Coaching

Interpersonal skills

Product knowledge

Leadership

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Whole Foods Market in Sunnyvale is seeking a Team Member to support daily operations, leadership, and merchandising. You will assist the Team Leader with sales targets, analyze reports, and develop product knowledge while fostering excellent teamwork.

Responsibilities include training Team Members, maintaining store standards, and ensuring health and safety regulations are followed. Flexible schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays is required.