Produce Dept. Team Lead: Merchandising & Operations

Whole Foods Market; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 31,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Whole Benefits

Job summary

Whole Foods Market in Berkeley seeks a Team Leader to assist the Team Leader in daily operations, drive profitability, merchandising, and labor control while developing Team Members. You will lead, mentor, and ensure adherence to health, safety, and SOPs across the store.

The role emphasizes customer service, vendor relations, and retail execution with a focus on maintaining high team morale. Qualified candidates have 18+ months retail experience with at least 6 months in a supervisory role,

Qualifications

• 18+ months retail Team Member experience
• 6+ months supervisory experience

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains creative store layout and product merchandising.
• Works with Team Leader to achieve sales, purchasing, and labor targets.
• Assists Team Leader in analysis of sales, reports and labor.
• Demonstrates advanced product knowledge and develops / maintains awareness of new products.
• Maintains good vendor relationships, develops new vendor relations, and ensures all paperwork is properly submitted for vendor processing.
• Works with Team Leader to resolve team concerns or issues.
• Functions as point person and departmental person in charge in absence of Team Leader
• Sets and achieves the highest standards of retail execution.
• Fosters and encourages a positive environment of outstanding teamwork, mutual respect, and exceptional morale.
• Maintains awareness of customer flows and needs and directs Team Members as necessary to satisfy and delight customers; responds promptly to customer needs and questions.
• Selects, trains, develops, mentors, motivates, and counsels Team Members in a manner that sustains a high-performance team and minimizes turnover.
• Provides timely, thorough, and thoughtful performance evaluations.
• Consistently communicates and models WFM vision and goals.

Skills

Leadership

Customer service

Coaching & mentoring

Inventory management

Communication

Analytical skills

Profitability awareness

Team development

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

POS systems

Job description

Whole Foods Market in Berkeley seeks a Team Leader to assist the Team Leader in daily operations, drive profitability, merchandising, and labor control while developing Team Members. You will lead, mentor, and ensure adherence to health, safety, and SOPs across the store.

The role emphasizes customer service, vendor relations, and retail execution with a focus on maintaining high team morale. Qualified candidates have 18+ months retail experience with at least 6 months in a supervisory role,