Produce Coordinator

Wegmans Food Markets; Collegeville (PA); On-site; USD 21,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off (PTO)

Overtime pay

Health care benefits

401(k) match with retirement plan

Scholarship program

LiveWell Employee & Family program

Job summary

Wegmans Food Markets in Collegeville, PA is seeking a Produce Department Coordinator to lead a team across the department and ensure excellent customer service while stocking fresh, high-quality items. You will coordinate daily tasks, display items creatively, and support department operations to meet customer needs.

Ideal candidates have customer service experience in food retail, with possible managerial or supervisory background and experience with inventory control and ordering.

Qualifications

• Customer service experience in food service, grocery or retail is required.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate activities of team members to keep tasks prioritized and the department running smoothly.
• Engage with customers to provide exceptional service and help locate items.
• Grow product knowledge and share trends and seasonality with the team.
• Ensure proper product presentation, signage, and freshness.
• Assist in ordering and inventory processes to control stock and shrink.
• Maintain a well-merchandised department with accurate logs and safety compliance.

Skills

Customer service

Job description

As a produce department coordinator, you will work with a team across all areas of the department to deliver incredible customer service and stock fresh, high quality items for our customers. You will assist with the coordination of daily tasks to ensure produce items are stocked, displayed creatively and readily available for our customers.

What will I do?

• Assist in coordinating the activities of team members, ensure tasks are prioritized and completed efficiently, and department runs smoothly, educate team members on products and processes in the department, understand how to look up and track financial measures
• Proactively approach and engage with customers like friends to provide incredible service, build meaningful relationships, suggest the perfect products, help locate items, efficiently and accurately fulfill orders
• Expand personal knowledge of relevant products, share passion and knowledge about unique, new, and seasonal offerings, and understand how trends, seasons and holidays affect department financials
• Understand how products look/smell at peak of perfection, ensure use of production guides, job aids, core recipes, and techniques to provide a consistent and quality outcome
• Assist in ordering and inventory processes, utilizing order guides to help control inventory and shrink
• Maintain department appearance by unloading deliveries, stocking product, displaying proper signage, ensuring displays are well-merchandised, rotating for freshness, checking for and shrinking outdated product
• Ensure team members properly use equipment and handle products, keep accurate logs, follow department job aids and food safety, human safety and 5S guidelines, and comply with Wegmans Policies and federal and state laws

Required Qualifications

• Customer service experience, preferably in a food service, grocery or retail setting

Preferred Qualifications

• Managerial/supervisory experience
• Experience working on a farm
• Experience ordering products and controlling inventory

At Wegmans, we've always believed we can achieve our goals only if we first fulfill the needs of our people. Putting our people first and offering competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits and a wide range of meaningful perks is just the beginning of what defines a rewarding career at Wegmans.

Comprehensive benefits*

• Paid time off (PTO) to help you balance your personal and work life
• Higher premium pay rates for working overtime, on Sundays, or on a recognized holiday
• Health care benefits that provide a high level of coverage at a low cost to you
• Retirement plan with a 401(k) match
• A generous scholarship program to help employees meet their educational goals
• LiveWell Employee & Family program to support your emotional, work-life and financial wellness

Our employees have put us high on Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list every year since it was first produced in 1998. Discover what it means to work for a mission-driven, values-based company where YOU make the difference.

• Certain eligibility requirements must be satisfied, and offerings may differ based upon area or the company and/or position.