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008 - Bashas' Produce Team Lead - San Carlos

San Carlos, AZ, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

Bashas' is a grocery store company, and they are seeking a Produce Team Lead to effectively direct and supervise all activities of the produce department. The role involves managing personnel, achieving sales goals, and ensuring customer satisfaction through effective merchandising and compliance with health regulations.

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Responsibilities

Directing produce department personnel, meeting department's goals and objectives

Engaging with customers through smiles and greetings, offering product information, providing selling suggestions and active sampling and always giving a genuine thank you

Communicating directly with the store director and produce specialist and director

Ordering produce merchandise and supplies necessary to maintain adequate stock levels

Merchandising fruits, vegetables, and produce products in accordance with produce merchandising standards

Building attractive displays of produce, while maintaining proper product inventory levels

Observing all store rules and company policies directing all team members to do the same

Communicating, executing and supporting all sales and merchandising initiatives

Serving as the leader of his/her department, a role model, coach, performance evaluator and trainer

Creating department budgets and tracking financial reports (e.g. profit/loss, sales and expenses)

Achieving department sales and profits goals; and controlling department labor, inventory, product out of stocks and shrink, sanitation, supplies, equipment, safety, and scheduling

Ensuring department compliance with heath department and weights and measures requirements

Maintaining a positive and friendly attitude towards customers and fellow team members

Unloading trailers, receiving merchandise verifying orders, breaking down produce loads, positioning cases of product in the produce warehouse or walk-in cooler

Understanding proper product trimming, rotation, culling, crisping and watering techniques and procedures, ensuring product attractiveness and shelf life

Understanding the importance of monitoring product pricing, signage, and placement and the proper use of product shelf tags and signage

Keeping clean neat and orderly work and storage areas, including a well swept produce department

Attentively stocking dated perishable products, rotating them as necessary to ensure quality and safety

Performs other duties as needed or assigned by management

Qualification

Produce merchandisingCustomer serviceTeam leadershipBasic business mathProduct knowledgeDexterityPhysical staminaEquipment operationCommunication skills

Required

Must be at least 18 years old

With both customers and team members, remain helpful, tactful and courteous

Work quickly and efficiently, sometimes with little direction, to accomplish assigned duties

Add, subtract, divide, multiply and perform other basic business math calculations

Read UPC codes, product labels, shelf signage, business forms, and posted company policies/procedures

Be knowledgeable of a wide variety general department product (grocery, frozen food, HBC, non-foods, liquor, DSD and dairy), including their locations in the store

Memorize product locations

Be dexterous enough with hands and fingers so as to be able to fill and rotate products quickly and use necessary equipment, including box cutters

Communicate openly and professionally through appropriate body language, facial expressions and speech, also communicating in writing when necessary

Listen to and understand verbal and non-verbal communication of customers and fellow members

Stand for long periods of time, bend and twist, and frequently lift and/or maneuver merchandise and supplies weighing 30 – 50lbs

Lift 50 and maneuver up to 100 lbs. while breaking down large and very heavy pallet loads of produce cases, boxes and bags

Operate manual and electric pallet jacks

Often work in walk-in refrigerated coolers

Company

Bashas'

Bashas’ – the family-owned grocer that operates Food City, AJ’s Fine Foods, Eddie’s Country Store, and both Bashas’ and Bashas’ Dine supermarkets – is an Arizona-based company founded by brothers Ike and Eddie Bashas, Sr.

Founded in 1932