Description

FOR OUR EMPLOYEES:

Competitive Salary and Paid Time Off

Tuition Reimbursement

Store discount of 20% to 25%

Up to $96 per month in store credit

100% match, up to 5%, for 401K

Affordable Medical, Dental & Vision insurance for all employees who 20 hour/week

AND MORE!

Summary and Mission: As part of our guest-oriented team, you’ll help us create an experience that makes our community as excited for honest food as we are. When you work at the Boise Co-Op, you’re helping us create a healthier community. You’re working alongside an enthusiastically dedicated team that brings their passion and pride to all that they do.

What we are looking for: You might be a great match if you: get excited about working in a fun and energetic environment, love providing world-class customer service, have a passion for wine and enjoy sharing your expertise with others. You aren’t looking for a Monday through Friday job where you are at a computer all day long. You are a communicator who thrives on interaction with others.

Full-time employment requires open availability.

Part-time employment requires open weekend availability.

Responsibilities:

• Assist department manager with category management, negotiate with suppliers for favorable prices, terms, quality, and delivery
• Help ensure sufficient stock, attractive, accurate point-of-sale signage and eye-catching product displays in meat, fish, and poultry cases
• Partner with leadership regarding food and beverage business development and operations, focused on a strategy to optimize the Co-op’s strategic position within our community
• Enforce department procedures to ensure safe food handling, preparation, sanitation, and security procedures
• Train staff in all aspects of the department, including customer service, ordering, and pricing, stocking, storage, rotation, displays, safe work habits, receiving and handling freight and invoices
• Maximize merchandising opportunities by building engaging, well-planned, product sets/displays that draw in consumers
• Ensure that all products are accurately labeled for description, ingredients, and price
• Maintain a working knowledge of the menu, vendors, products, market availability, and delivery schedules
• Ensure that food in display units, coolers, work areas, storage areas, and floors are in a clean and orderly condition and meet all Health Department requirements
• Demonstrate and support our core values and actively works to educate other team members

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Background in culinary arts, meat, and seafood and/or restaurant management required
• History of supervising and motivating staff, working collaboratively, and effectively delegating responsibility
• Experience planning, developing, and implementing systems, procedures, and policies
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to manage communications, learn quickly, and build relationships with all levels of the organization
• Ability to handle multiple demands, work under pressure, and meet deadlines
• Maintain regular and consistent attendance and punctuality, with or without reasonable accommodation
• Ability to communicate standards, expectations, policy changes and product knowledge to staff
• Work effectively as part of a team and develop positive relationships with team by addressing individual motivation, needs, and concerns

Physical Demands and Working Environment: The conditions herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

Environment: Work is performed primarily in a grocery store setting with extensive public contact and frequent interruptions.

Physical: Primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in an office setting; to stand or sit for prolonged periods of time; to occasionally stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, reach, and twist; to lift, carry, push, and/or pull light to moderate amounts of weight; to operate office equipment requiring repetitive hand movement and fine coordination including use of a computer keyboard; and to verbally communicate to exchange information.

It is the policy of Boise Co-Op that qualified individuals with disabilities not be discriminated against because of their disabilities in regard to job application procedures, hiring, and other terms and conditions of employment. It is further the policy of Boise Co-Op to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in all aspects of the employment process. Boise Co-Op is prepared to modify or adjust the job application process or the job or work environment to make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of the applicant or employee to enable the applicant or employee to be considered for the position he or she desires, to perform the essential functions of the position in question, or to enjoy equal benefits and privileges of employment as are enjoyed by other similarly situated employees without disabilities, unless the accommodation will impose an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact the HR Department by phone (208)472-4500 or in person at 888 W Fort Street, Boise ID 83702.

Boise Co-op is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status or any other protected category under applicable state/federal law.