Department Manager Meat-Rowlett, TX

Job Description

Job Description

JOB TITLE : Meat Manager

REPORTS TO : Store Director

SALARY OR HOURLY : Hourly

LOCATION : 1925

DEPARTMENT : Meat

DATE : January 2017

JOB CODE(S)

ALBERTSONS : 11034

RANDALLS / TOM THUMB : 12718

PURPOSE :

Exemplifies and ensures strong customer service in all areas of the job. Provide a superior quality product that exceeds the customers' expectations. Working knowledge of the department functions, and maintains adequate amount of fresh inventory. Meat Managers are primarily responsible for keeping and maintaining a fresh inventory, processes administrative paperwork and maintains accurate department records.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Maintains an atmosphere of enthusiastic customer awareness with an emphasis on providing fastand friendly Customer Service.
• Assists customers by making product suggestions, filling special orders and food preparation suggestions.
• Engages in suggestive selling and other sales techniques via telephone, in-store intercom and one-on-one customer interaction.
• Plans daily operation, monitors production process following company procedures and profitability.
• Trims, cuts, wraps, trays and displays meat. Builds meat and seafood displays, rotates and discards outdated orspoiled product. Ensures cleanliness of work area and department.
• Implements effective promotional and seasonal displays. May be responsible for the operation andmaintenance of meat cooler, freezer and butcher block.
• Ability to follow and maintain department standards and requirements in handling quick sales items.
• Runs cutting tests on meat products to monitor profitability.
• Ensures trim specifications and cutting standards are followed. Ensures temperatures aremaintained in all phases of meat preparation, display and storage. Schedules, supervises, trainsand assigns duties to department employees.
• 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. Oversees and assists with alldepartment duties such as : cutting, grinding and wrapping fresh meat products.
• Understands opening and closing department procedures.
• Trains employees on 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 EmployeeHandbook.
• 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 ensure adequate product quantity, quality and freshness and maintains inventorylevels according to division directives. Stocks and rotates product. Maintains and organizes meat cooler.
• Controls shrink and cost.
• Implements correct product preparation techniques.
• Uses and operates equipment such as pallet jack, hand truck, scissors, knives, safety cutters, grinder, saws,saw blades and cuber
• Accurately completes, maintains and monitors daily log sheet, Production Chart, Meat Grinding Log,Sales and Labor and other required paperwork and logs.
• Performs receiving duties including breaking down loads, verifying orders using invoices, inspecting quality,reporting shortages, stocking and rotating product. Adheres to product temperature and storage guidelinesand follows proper packaging techniques. Processes administrative paperwork and maintains accuratedepartment records.

Meat Manager

January 2017

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WORK ENVIRONMENT

Disclaimer :

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this job classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and skills required of personnel so classified.