Meat Department Manager

Company: Whole Foods Market
Location: Boston
Posted on: November 1, 2024

Job Description:

Job SummaryWe are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Meat Team Leader to join our team at Whole Foods Market. As a Meat Team Leader, you will be responsible for providing overall leadership to the Meat team, ensuring the highest standards of retail execution, and fostering a positive environment of outstanding teamwork and mutual respect.Key Responsibilities

• Leadership and Team Management: Holds ATLs, supervisors, and team members accountable for delivering outstanding customer service, makes hiring and separation decisions in partnership with store leadership, and monitors and achieves sales, purchasing, and labor targets.
• Operations and Logistics: Projects annual sales and expenses, prepares operating budgets, manages ordering and inventory to achieve targeted contribution to profit margin, and establishes and maintains collaborative and productive working relationships with departmental and store leadership.
• Customer Service and Experience: Maintains awareness of customer flows and needs, directs team members as necessary to satisfy and delight customers, responds promptly to customer needs and questions, and communicates and models WFM vision and goals.
• Team Development and Safety: Selects, trains, develops, mentors, motivates, and counsels team members in a manner that sustains a high-performance team and minimizes turnover, communicates and maintains team member safety and security standards, and provides timely, thorough, and thoughtful performance evaluations.Requirements
  • Education and Experience: 24+ months retail experience, including 12+ months of team leadership experience.
  • Skills and Certifications: Advanced knowledge of products, buying, pricing, merchandising, and inventory management, food safety certification, certified meat journeyman or equivalent training, excellent interpersonal, motivational, team building, and customer relationship skills, and proficiency with email, Microsoft Office, and operations-related applications.Working ConditionsThe Meat Team Leader will work in a fast-paced retail environment, lifting up to 50 pounds, standing/walking for 6-8 hours in an 8-hour workday, and working a flexible schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.

Keywords: Whole Foods Market, Portland , Meat Department Manager, Executive , Boston, Maine