Meat Department Associate: Fresh Display & Customer Service

Whole Foods Market; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 29,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Whole Benefits

Job summary

Whole Foods Market is seeking team members for the Santa Clara meat department to support counter service, stocking, and sanitation. The role emphasizes friendly, efficient customer interactions, adherence to SOPs, and flexibility to perform duties across the department.

Responsibilities include maintaining displays, stocking, cleaning, and assisting with sampling programs while ensuring accuracy of pricing and compliance with health and safety rules.

Qualifications

• Ability to sell proactively.
• Ability to learn basic knowledge of all products carried in department.
• Ability to visually examine products for quality and freshness.
• Proactively reads labels and familiarizes oneself on various products.
• Assists with periodic inventory checks.

Responsibilities

• Ensures a fresh and appealing display by checking quality, keeping cases and shelves clean and well stocked, rotating and removing out-of-date products, filling ice tables, and performing other duties as assigned.
• Maintains back stock in good order.
• Assists with sampling program, keeping sample areas full, clean and appealing.
• Cleans cases, glass, signs, uprights, coolers, smokers, floors, and drains as required.
• Arrives to work station on time, appropriately groomed, dressed and ready to work; works all scheduled shifts and attends required trainings and meetings.
• Provides excellent customer service, addresses needs of customers in a timely and effective manner and models suggestive selling techniques; answers phones and pages promptly and courteously.
• Maximizes sales potential through effective and proper procedures for prepping, storing, rotating, stocking, and merchandising product.
• Follows and complies, or ensures compliance, with established procedures, including Weights and Measures, health and sanitation, and safe work practices.
• Maintains, or ensures maintenance of, a clean and sanitary working and shopping environment; maintains equipment in accordance with WFM cleanliness and safety standards.
• Performs opening, mid, and closing duties as assigned; ensures accuracy of signs and pricing.
• Immediately reports safety hazards and violations.
• Performs other duties as assigned by store, regional, or national leadership.

Skills

Customer service

Food safety awareness

Sales skills

Teamwork

Time management

Job description

Whole Foods Market is seeking team members for the Santa Clara meat department to support counter service, stocking, and sanitation. The role emphasizes friendly, efficient customer interactions, adherence to SOPs, and flexibility to perform duties across the department.

Responsibilities include maintaining displays, stocking, cleaning, and assisting with sampling programs while ensuring accuracy of pricing and compliance with health and safety rules.