Meat Manager - Assistant-Baton Rouge, LA

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, 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.
• Assists with planning daily operations, monitor production process following company procedures and

profitability.

• Trims, cuts, wraps, trays and displays meat. Builds meat and seafood displays, rotates and discards outdated or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 meat cooler, freezer and butcher block.

• Ability to follow and maintain department standards and requirements in handling quick sales items.
• Assists with ensuring trim specifications and cutting standards are followed. Ensures temperatures

are maintained in all phases of meat preparation, display and storage. Schedules, supervises, trains
and assigns duties to department employees.

• Specific knowledge of duties performed by all department employees
• Understands opening and closing department procedures.
• Trains employees on store policies, sales and record keeping procedures.
• 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.
• Assists with preparing sales and inventory reports. Physical inventory taken every 4 weeks.
• Controls shrink and cost.
• Assists with controlling inventory to ensure adequate product quantity, quality and freshness and

maintains inventory levels according to division directives. Stocks and rotates product. Maintains and
organizes meat cooler.

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

jack, hand truck, scissors, knives, grinder, saw, saw blades safety cutters and cuber.

• Assists with accurately completing, maintaining and monitoring 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 guidelines
and follows proper packaging techniques. Processes administrative paperwork and maintains accurate
department records.

• Ensures that proper temperature levels for product are maintained. Ensures proper signing of products

to include accurate pricing and Country of Origin Labeling (COOL). Complies with retail labeling laws,
federal and state regulations, Company and code dating policies.

• Complies with all workplace safety rules and regulations.