Grocery Department Manager

At Honeoye Falls and Mendon Meadows Marketplace, our team provides customers with quality products and services in a friendly and courteous manner, ensuring repeat visits to our stores.

Get to know us:

Honeoye Falls Marketplace and Mendon Meadows has been a family run business for over 30 years. Our company motto is we CARE (Community, Accountability, Respect, Engagement). We continue to grow by implementing our core company values alongside our team daily. One of our keys to great success is hiring excellent employees who we believe have the skills and potential to be successful.

Summary of Responsibilities

The grocery department manager is responsible for providing customers with quality items in a friendly and courteous manner, while ensuring safety standards and sanitation requirements are met. The grocery manager is also responsible for supervising staff within the department, ordering products to match the expected sales projections, and maintaining department profitability. Demonstrates the company's core values of community, accountability, respect, and engagement while instilling the values in all grocery department employees.

Essential Duties

Reliability- Regular and predictable attendance

Maintaining a thorough knowledge of all of the products and their location, and ensures staff has a thorough knowledge as well.

Ensures proper training occurs with grocery/frozen/dairy employees

Delegates responsibilities effectively and follows up with employee completion

Communicates effectively with all employees and customers in a friendly and welcoming way

Coaches and encourages employees to do the most efficient productive work, leading by example, and communicating appropriately.

Creates a weekly schedule, and is flexible to the needs of employees, balancing that with the needs of the store

Takes inventory quarterly and orders needed supplies and products weekly

Ensures labor laws and store policies are followed at all times

Orders turn products for the department on a weekly basis

Manages the merchandising of the Grocery & HBC GM end displays

Manages vendor personnel and relationship

Fills & faces all DSD products on non-service days

Stocks, load, turn sale items to maintain shelf and display stock

Communicates in advance pre-book item ship dates and retails with Scanning Dept.

Works with scanning department to ensure pricing accuracy on all products within the department

Ensures quality product is available based on customer demand

Department organization to include back room, coolers, and freezers

Faces, organizes, and trains others while paying special attention to product dates

Maintains knowledge of food trends through formal employer or wholesaler sponsored programs as well as through trade journal publications and other important media products

Diligently maintains merchandising standards consistent with the competitive environment

Ensures that the bailer and compactor are used properly, and emptied when needed

Completes beer ad for Honeoye Falls and Mendon Meadows

Maintains a positive work environment while spreading our core values

Skills and Abilities

Based on the essential duties and responsibilities of the position, the grocery manager should have a number of skills and abilities:

Strong customer service skills

Previous center store management required

Specialty foods experience recommended

The ability to effectively communicate with customers and employees alike

The ability to encourage a team atmosphere

The ability to effectively prioritize responsibilities and meet assigned deadlines

The ability to adapt to frequent changes

Flexibility and ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast paced environment

Supervisory experience including training, evaluating and providing direction

Flexibility with hours, working in other departments, and at times helping at our sister store

Sound organizational, records management, and time management skills

Education, Experience, and Other Requirements

Based on the responsibilities of the position, it is preferred that the grocery manager possess the following:

Bachelor's degree preferred.

3 years of experience in a grocery department management role

Experience working in multiple departments or cross-functional teams preferred

Strong organizational and time-management skills

Reliably commute, or planning to relocate before beginning employment preferred

Physical and Environmental

The grocery department manager position is located within a retail grocery environment and may experience both hot and cold temperatures throughout the working day. Physical requirements include:

Regularly lifting up to 75 pounds

Fumes from cleaning agents, and from other departments

Manual dexterity to use equipment within the department

Various temperature environments both cold and hot

Honeoye Falls Marketplace and Mendon Meadows is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide opportunities to people without discrimination due to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, status as a parent, national origin, age, disability (physical or mental), family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, or any other applicable federal, state or local protected statuses.

These protections extend to all of our management practices including recruitment and hiring practices, appraisal systems, promotions, training, and career development programs. Honeoye Falls Marketplace and Mendon Meadows will make reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants with disabilities, and for religious observances and practices.