Produce Lead: Local Sourcing & Community Focus

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

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.