MEAT/ASST DEPT LEADER

Fred Meyer; Fairbanks (AK); On-site; USD 12,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Fred Meyer is seeking a Meat Department team member in Alaska to deliver outstanding customer service, maintain safe and clean conditions, and meet department sales and QA goals. You will monitor all Meat department duties and participate in promotions, training, and scheduling to handle customer volume.

The role emphasizes communicating store goals to associates, ensuring product quality, and maintaining safety and regulatory compliance in a dynamic retail environment.

Qualifications

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Current food handlers permit after hire.
• Ability to handle stressful situations.
• Knowledge of basic math (counting, addition, subtraction).

Responsibilities

• Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service.
• Establish and maintain a safe, clean department environment.
• Achieve department sales and profit goals and QA standards.
• Monitor all Meat department duties and activities.
• Communicate company goals and promote trust among associates.
• Develop scheduling to manage customer volume and assist management with budgeting.
• Inspect products for quality and freshness and take action as needed.
• Inform customers about specials and samples to encourage discovery of new items.
• Plan and implement department promotions and coordinate with store management.
• Train and develop associates and participate in performance appraisals.
• Ensure proper temperatures and maintain temperature logs.
• Adhere to laws and company guidelines and report safety risks.

Skills

Excellent communication

Food handlers permit

Stress management

Basic math

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service. Establish and maintain a safe, clean environment that encourages our customers to return. Achieve sales and profit goals established for the department and control all established quality assurance standards. Monitor all functions, duties and activities related to the Meat department. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.

Minimum

• Excellent oral/written communication skills
• Current food handlers permit once employed
• Ability to handle stressful situations
• Knowledge of basic math (counting, addition, subtraction)

Desired

• High School Diploma or GED
• Any meat/retail experience
• Any management experience
• Second language (speaking, reading and/or writing)- Promote trust and respect among associates, with a positive attitude
• Communicate company, department, and job specific information to associates
• Establish department performance goals and empower associates to meet or exceed targets through teamwork
• Develop adequate scheduling to manage customer volume
• Train and develop associates on their job performance and participate in the performance appraisal process
• Create an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important and appreciated by answering questions regarding products sold within the department and throughout the store; respond to questions, make suggestions, and locate products
• Inform customers of produce specials and offer product samples to help customers discover new items
• Review/inspect products for quality and freshness and take appropriate action
• Develop and implement a department business plan to achieve desired results
• Create and execute sales promotions in partnership with store management
• Inform and educate department associates about current, upcoming and special in-store promotions, especially promotions that affect the department
• Prepare and submit seasonal critiques for the sales and merchandising supervisor
• Implement the period promotional plan for the department
• Assist management in preparing the store/department budget, expense control, profit and loss reviews, and take appropriate action on all financial reports
• Schedule daily, weekly and monthly price changes by updating shelf tags and promotional signs
• Plan and organize the inventory process, maintain an awareness of inventory/stocking conditions, note any discrepancies, train department associates on inventory/stocking and Computer Assisted Ordering (CAO)
• Ensure proper temperatures in cases and coolers are maintained and temperature logs are maintained
• Reinforce safety programs by complying with safety procedures, identifying unsafe conditions, practicing preventive maintenance by properly inspecting equipment, notifying store management of any items in need of repair and of customer or employee accidents
• Report all safety risk, or issues, and illegal activity, including robbery, theft or fraud
• Adhere to all local, state and federal laws, and company guidelines
• Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation