Produce Lead

Meijer; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 25,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly pay

Scheduling flexibility

Paid parental leave

Paid education assistance

Team member discount

Development programs for advancement

Job summary

Meijer Market Format is seeking a store leader to guide multiple departments, empower teams, and deliver exceptional customer experiences within a market-style retail setting. This role focuses on operations, scheduling, and community engagement to support growth and service standards.

The position emphasizes team development, inventory control, and driving key metrics while maintaining alignment with company values and community involvement.

Qualifications

• Passion for customer service.
• 2-3 years of retail experience preferred.
• Ability to demonstrate creative thinking.
• Ability to quickly build rapport and gain customer confidence.
• Ability to lift, carry, push, pull, bend, and twist while handling product.
• Experience writing and executing plans.
• Has proven track record of developing teams to achieve service, presentation, sales, and margin expectations.
• Experience in inventory control management, cycle, and period inventories.

Responsibilities

• Manage ordering, receiving, stocking, pricing and product displays.
• Source local products to create a farmer's market feel.
• Plan, write and communicate store schedules.
• Establish clear standards for daily and hourly market conditions.
• Drive key metrics for department including sales, margin, inventory, net profit, customer satisfaction and safety.
• Foster and drive open communication with team to ensure exchange of information to improve customer shopping experience and store financial performance.
• Develop store to be part of the community with products, events, community relationships through team member empowerment.
• Work flexibly to assume responsibilities for team members or assistant store managers when needed.
• Ensure freshness of product by closely monitoring execution to rotation and dating policy.
• Stay on top of competitive trends; investigate and analyze strengths/weaknesses of competition.

Skills

Customer service

Retail experience

Creative thinking

Rapport building

Physical ability

Planning

Team development

Inventory control

Job description

As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at a Market Format location, you're provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family - take care of your career and your community!

Market Format Rewards

• Weekly pay
• Scheduling flexibility
• Paid parental leave
• Paid education assistance
• Team member discount
• Development programs for advancement and career growth

Responsible for leading teams across multiple departments, empowering them to make the difference. Set a great example for those in your span of care, by simply creating an exceptional customer experience.

What You'll be Doing:

• Manage ordering, receiving, stocking, pricing and product displays.
• Source local products to create a farmer's market feel.
• Plan, write and communicate store schedules.
• Establish clear standards for daily and hourly market conditions.
• Drive key metrics for department including sales, margin, inventory, net profit, customer satisfaction and safety.
• Foster and drive open communication with team to ensure exchange of information to improve customer shopping experience and store financial performance.
• Develop store to be part of the community with products, events, community relationships through team member empowerment.
• Work flexibly to assume responsibilities for team members or assistant store managers when needed.
• Ensure freshness of product by closely monitoring execution to rotation and dating policy.
• Stay on top of competitive trends; investigate and analyze strengths/weaknesses of competition.
• What You Bring With You (Qualifications):
• Passion for customer service.
• 2 - 3 years of retail experience preferred.
• Ability to demonstrate creative thinking.
• Ability to quickly build rapport and gain customer confidence to create repeat business.
• Ability to lift, carry, push, pull, bend, and twist while handling product.
• Experience writing and executing plans.
• Has proven track record of developing teams to achieve service, presentation, sales, and margin expectations.
• Experience in inventory control management, cycle, and period inventories.

We are committed to offering competitive pay that reflects marker standards and ensures consistency within our organization. The pay range for this position is listed below.

$18.00 - $20.63

This position typically starts between the rate below. Pay increases generally occur through our regular merit review cycles. The actual rate offered will meet or surpass the legal wage requirement for the job's location.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, a 401(k) plan with employer match, disability leave, and paid time off (PTO). In addition to these core benefits, we are committed to supporting your overall well-being and career growth. Our offerings include a variety of programs designed to support your personal and professional development, such as paid parental leave, paid education assistance (including free education), a childcare subsidy, and more. We are dedicated to creating a work environment that promotes work-life balance, long-term health and financial security, and continuous professional development.

Meijer Market Format Stores are a new and exciting neighborhood grocery store model, created to listen and react to the communities they are embedded in. Our stores are focused on community first, genuine customer service, fresh produce, local products, and low prices every day. We are rooting ourselves in urban and suburban locations throughout the Midwest, and are operated independently from the rest of the Meijer Supercenter chain. This allows each store the autonomy to truly reflect the neighborhood, to source locally, and to evolve with the needs of the people who live and shop there.