Meat & Seafood Team Lead — Flexible Scheduling & Growth

Hulsing Enterprises, LLC; Roanoke (VA); On-site; USD 26,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision, and dental insurance

401k and retirement planning

Paid time off

Store discount

Flexible scheduling

Job summary

Earth Fare in Roanoke, VA is seeking an Assistant Meat and Seafood Team Leader to guide a dedicated team within the department. This role focuses on delivering exceptional customer service while maintaining product quality, safety, and display standards.

You will lead meat and seafood operations, supervise staff, and collaborate with store leadership to achieve financial goals, including gross profit, shrink, and labor efficiency.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of meat and seafood varieties and cuts.
• Understanding of food safety, sanitation, and proper storage/display of organic products.
• Proven experience managing shrink, sales, gross profit, and department overhead.
• Minimum of 2–3 years experience as a professional meat cutter or butcher.
• 2–3 years grocery retail experience in a meat department preferred.
• OSHA or ServSafe certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Communicate Earth Fare vision, SOPs, merchandising guidelines, and financial goals.
• Emphasize customer service, safety, and sanitation standards.
• Interview, select, train, and support team members.
• Serve as a key holder to support overall store operations.
• Supervise and participate in in-house meat cutting and seafood preparation.
• Maintain knowledge of meat and seafood varieties and cuts.
• Ensure proper presentation and display of meat and seafood products.
• Maintain high standards of quality control.
• Order and receive deliveries.
• Support scheduling and shift coverage.
• Review daily and weekly sales and movement reports.
• Monitor shrink reports and department communications.
• Conduct monthly department inventory.
• Identify opportunities to reduce expenses.
• Maintain an attractive sales floor following Earth Fare merchandising guidelines.

Skills

Meat & seafood knowledge

Customer service

Education

Grocery meat department experience preferred

Tools

Knives & cutting equipment

Job description

Earth Fare in Roanoke, VA is seeking an Assistant Meat and Seafood Team Leader to guide a dedicated team within the department. This role focuses on delivering exceptional customer service while maintaining product quality, safety, and display standards.

You will lead meat and seafood operations, supervise staff, and collaborate with store leadership to achieve financial goals, including gross profit, shrink, and labor efficiency.