Meat Lead

Sam's Club; Lenexa (KS); On-site; USD 32,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Stock purchase program

Paid time off (PTO)

Life insurance

Job summary

Sam's Club is seeking a Meat Department Lead in Lenexa, KS to supervise the meat team, drive department sales, and uphold quality and compliance standards. You will lead day-to-day operations, train associates, and collaborate with other leaders to deliver a great member experience in-store.

The role emphasizes leadership in meat products, effective use of digital tools, and accountability for staffing, inventory, and safety to ensure the club meets member expectations.

Qualifications

• 6 months experience in a meat production department or 6 months experience supervising a team.
• Must be 18 years of age or older

Responsibilities

• Supervise the meat department team to meet the business plan and support club goals.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of meat products, specifications, and regulatory standards.
• Leverage handheld and digital tools to plan, forecast, train and drive sales.
• Ensure proper staffing levels, inventory accuracy, and safe, clean department operations.
• Coach and mentor team members to deliver high-quality products and excellent member service.

Skills

Leadership

Team supervision

Customer focus

Job description

Position Summary

As a Meat Department Lead you will drive sales in your area and supervise your team of hourly associates to deliver to our members more of what they love, for less. You will model expertise in Meat and work collaboratively with other team leaders to ensure the total club meets the member’s expectations.

What you’ll do

Be a Team Leader: Supervises the team within the meat department to deliver on the business plan and contribute to the overall success of the club by communicating the goals of the department, executing company programs, adhering to policies and being an advocate for the member, the associate and the company working collaboratively with other team leaders to ensure the total club is meeting the members expectations.

Be an Expert: Maintains an in-depth knowledge of business on the floor, backroom operations, product updates and product specifications by ensuring the meat department meets company and regulatory standards for quality, inventory production, equipment usage, safety, sanitation and compliance. Sharing knowledge and prioritizes training for the team to understand the item specifications and utilize the approved equipment for high-volume products, engaging with the members and shares passion of the product to help them make the right protein selection.

Be a Techie: Leverages digital tools to plan for and drive sales, improve the shopping experience and elevate associate engagement. Utilizes handheld technology to make immediate business decisions related to production training and product quality and adopting new tools and encouraging others to use them.

Be an Owner: Drives the business results, ensuring commitment to operational excellence, maintaining a neat, clean and safe work area in the meat department, utilizing digital tools for forecasting, planning and production, facilitating the product inventory and ordering process, ensuring appropriate staffing levels and accurate audit and compliance standards, ensuring meat and seafood equipment and storage systems in working order, producing and displaying merchandise according to the merchandise layout plan.

Be a Talent Ambassador: Teaches and trains the team by identifying training needs, providing and developing necessary skills to deliver high quality products to the members, encouraging career growth for team members and sourcing new talent internally and externally to work on the team. Develops, communicates and implements processes and practices to meet business needs by collaborating with managers, coworkers, customers and other business partners, analyzing and applying information from multiple sources, monitoring progress and results and identifying and addressing improvement opportunities. Demonstrates, promotes and supports compliance with company policies, procedures and standards of ethics and integrity by explaining guiding and demonstrating how to apply these in executing business processes and practices, implementing related action plans using the Open Door Policy, and assisting management with correcting ethical and compliance issues and problems. Leads and participates in teams by using and sharing resources, information and tools, determining customer needs and business priorities, coordinating and executing work assignments, providing advice, feedback and support to ensure timelines and work quality are achieved and modeling and helping others with how to adapt to change or new challenges.

Respect the Individual: Embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas and experiences, creates a workplace where associates feel seen, supported and connected through a culture of belonging, creates opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform, helps to attract the best talent.

Respect the Individual: Works as a team, builds strong and trusting relationships, communicates with impact, energy and positivity to motivate and influence.

Respect the Individual: Strengthens the team by helping develop and mentor others, recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.

Act with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance, models the Walmart values to support and foster our culture, holds oneself and others accountable, supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members and the world around us.

Act with Integrity: Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair and transparent.

Serve our Customers and Members: Delivers results while putting the customer first.

Serve our Customers and Members: Makes decisions based on reliable information, balances short and long-term priorities and considers how own work impacts the team’s ability to deliver on our purpose for all stakeholders.

Strive for Excellence: Displays curiosity and a desire to learn, takes calculated risks and demonstrates courage and resilience.

Strive for Excellence: Drives continuous improvements, is open to and uses new technologies and skills and supports others through change.

At Sam's Club, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet!

• Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage
• Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance
• Paid time off benefits include PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.
• Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

Live Better U is a company-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart at https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J.

The hourly wage range for this position is $23.00 to $31.00*

• The actual hourly rate will equal or exceed the required minimum wage applicable to the job location.

Additional compensation in the form of premiums may be paid in amounts ranging from $0.35 per hour to $3.00 per hour in specific circumstances. Premiums may be based on schedule, facility, season, or specific work performed. Multiple premiums may apply if applicable criteria are met.

Minimum Qualifications

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications: 6 months experience in a meat production department or 6 months experience supervising a team.

I acknowledge that the position for which I am applying requires me to successfully complete all job required trainings and assessments within a prescribed time period if I receive the position.

Must be 18 years of age or older

Preferred Qualifications

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Meat processing, including boneless and bone-in products, Supervising Associates

Food Handler Certification (Food Safety) - Certification

Primary Location: 12200 W 95TH ST, LENEXA, KS 66215-3806, United States of America

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.