Produce Manager

Albertsons Companies; North Bend (WA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Albertsons Companies in North Bend, WA seeks a Produce Department Supervisor to lead daily operations, maintain product quality, and ensure exceptional customer service. You will oversee staffing, scheduling, and training, while upholding safety and sanitation standards.

The role requires hands-on supervision, inventory control, and the ability to implement promotional displays and control shrink. Strong communication and leadership are essential to drive sales and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Requires strong communication and leadership abilities.
• Demonstrated ability to manage people and resolve conflicts.
• Knowledge of employment laws and workplace practices is preferred.
• Understanding of produce department policies, labeling and safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Champions customer service programs and resolves customer complaints to meet division goals.
• Supervises day-to-day functions of the Produce Department to meet customer service, sales and profit objectives.
• Directs hiring, training, scheduling and performance management of produce staff.
• Conducts daily inspections for freshness, quality, sanitation and safety compliance.
• Assists with producing duties such as receiving, cleaning, trimming, displaying and stocking.

Skills

Communication skills

Leadership

People management

Interpersonal skills

Customer service

Team supervision

Inventory control

Job description

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities :

• Champions Company and Division customer service programs to meet or exceed Division customer service goals. Handles customer relations in a positive manner, including effective resolution of customer complaints. Promotes Albertson's philosophy of personalized service in the produce department.


• Supervising the day to day functions of the produce department to achieve customer service, and sales and profit objectives.


• Supervises, motives, directs, trains and in the hiring of produce personnel. Monitors associate performance and recommends personnel actions such as hiring, firing, layoff and disciplinary actions. Schedules personnel to ensure adequate coverage and service levels and to meet department budgetary objectives.


• Conducts daily inspections of all produce sections and initiates corrective measures to ensure compliance with product freshness and quality. Rotates products, discards outdated or spoiled product and maintains in stock conditions, sanitation and safety requirements.


• Assists with all produce duties such as: receiving, cleaning, trimming, cutting, watering and displaying.


• Implements effective promotional and seasonal displays. Controls shrink and expenses. Accurately completes and monitors daily log sheet, purchase report, and sales and labor and other required paperwork and logs. Maintains records on ad items movement.


• Orders, checks, receives and controls inventory to ensure adequate proper inventory level, product quality, eye appeal and freshness. Checks for and prevent the sale of out-dated or spoiled products. Takes periodic inventories, processes administrative paperwork and maintains accurate department records. Maintains and organizes Produce Department work area and cooler.


• Ensures produce quality, freshness and quantity standards are met.


• Ensures proper merchandising of product by understanding and implementing schematics, merchandising of advertised items, proper signing procedures and monitoring product flow. Complies with retail labeling laws, federal and state regulations and Company policies. Complies with all federal, state and local health and food safety standards.


• Creates effective promotional and seasonal displays. Checks competitors for comparisons on prices, product variety and merchandising procedures.


• Assists customers by making product suggestions and engages in suggestive selling. Makes intercom announcements.


• Ensures cleanliness and sanitation of sales floor and work area, cooler, equipment, wet boxes and cases.


• Assists with answering and responding incoming calls appropriately. Receives and appropriately resolves customer complaints and reports to the Store Director as appropriate.


• Assists with implementing emergency procedures in the event of equipment and computer software malfunctions.


• Ensures that all associates are trained and instructed in the proper performance of work duties. Monitors associate performance and reports observations to the Store Director. Resolves associate complaints and reports to the Store Director as appropriate.


• Maintains confidentiality concerning associates, store sales and other Company information.


• Responsible for performing all job duties and responsibilities safely, accurately and with honesty and integrity.


• Other necessary and required duties.

Skills and Physical Requirements:

• Requires working knowledge of all job duties within the Produce Department including trimming, cutting, displaying, watering, building produce displays, rotating and discarding outdated or spoiled product.


• Requires strong communication skills, good leadership and interpersonal skills, the proven ability to manage people and the ability to maintain composure in dealing with customers and co-workers.


• Requires knowledge of employment laws and workplace practices.


• Requires a good understanding of overall company practices and Produce Department policies and procedures. Requires the ability to judge and react to business activity.


• Must have knowledge of produce variety, standards, perishability, food safety, food handling and sanitation procedures and department policies and procedures.


• Frequently reaches, lifts, stacks and maneuvers objects of varying dimensions and weights up to approximately 75 lbs. Bends, stoops and reaches frequently and occasionally climbs ladders. Pushes and pulls fully loaded hand trucks, six-wheel carts and pallet jacks. Performs repetitious arm movement to prepare and package products.


• Manual dexterity and good eye-hand coordination are necessary.


• Mental alertness is necessary to ensure safe and accurate completion of work activities. Requires knowledge of basic mathematics and weights and measures. Must have knowledge of produce variety, standards, perishability, food safety, food handling, sanitation, labeling and department policies and procedures.


• Operates computer software and electronic ordering devices to order products, plan sales, input inventory and schedul