Produce Lead - Community-Focused Retail Leader

Meijer; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; 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 Stores are building a neighborhood grocery model focused on community, service, and local products. This role leads teams across departments to deliver an exceptional customer experience and strong store performance.

Join a family-oriented company with a commitment to career growth, education assistance, and competitive benefits as you drive operations and community engagement in Grand Rapids, MI.

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.

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

Team leadership

Sales and merchandising

Communication

Job description

Meijer Market Format Stores are building a neighborhood grocery model focused on community, service, and local products. This role leads teams across departments to deliver an exceptional customer experience and strong store performance.

Join a family-oriented company with a commitment to career growth, education assistance, and competitive benefits as you drive operations and community engagement in Grand Rapids, MI.