Produce Manager - Cleburne, TX

Duties And Responsibilities

• Maintains an atmosphere of enthusiastic customer awareness with an emphasis on providing
  
  

fast and friendly Customer Service.

• Assists customers by making product suggestions.
• Engages in suggestive selling and other sales techniques via telephone, in-store intercom
  
  

announcements and one-on-one customer interaction.

• Answers and responds to incoming calls appropriately. Receive and appropriately resolves
  
  

customer complaints and reports to Store Director as needed.

• Plans daily operation, monitors production process following company procedures and profitability.
• Trims, cuts, wraps, trays, displays and waters produce. Builds produce displays, rotates and discards outdated
  
  

or spoiled product. Ensures cleanliness of work area and department.

• Implements effective promotional and seasonal displays. May be responsible for the operation and
  
  

maintenance of the Salad Bar (where applicable) and Fresh-Made.

• Ability to follow and maintain department standards and requirements such as Fresh Made and
  
  

product freshness.

• Monitors employee’ productivity and evaluates overall performance.
• Schedules employees to ensure adequate coverage and service levels.
• Specific knowledge of duties performed by all department employees. Including but not limited to
  
  

opening and closing duties.

• Schedule, supervise, train and assign duties to department employees.
• Train employees in store policies, sales and record keeping procedures.
• Identifies and trains employees with high potential for advancement opportunities.
• Working knowledge of company policies and guidelines as outlined in the Albertsons/Tom Thumb
  
  

Employee Handbook.

• Responsible for insuring proper code dating for all products within the department are being enforced.
• Initiates personnel actions such as pre-employment interviews, transfers, promotions, and disciplinary
  
  

actions.

• Prepare sales and inventory reports. Physical inventory taken every 4 weeks.
• Controls inventory to ensures adequate product quantity, quality and freshness and maintains
  
  

inventory levels according to division directives. Stocks and rotates product. Maintains and

organizes produce cooler.

• Controls shrink and cost.
• Implements correct product preparation techniques. Uses and operates related equipment such as pallet
  
  

jack, hand truck, scissors, knives, safety cutters and Sterilox machine.

• Performs receiving duties including breaking down loads, verifying orders using invoices, inspecting
  
  

quality, reporting shortage, stocking and rotating product.