Grocery Department Manager
FLSA Classification: Non-Exempt
Reports To: Store Manager and Assistant Manager
General Purpose: The Grocery Manager is an essential role that ensures that the Grocery, Dairy, Frozen Foods, and Beer/Wine departments are professionally managed to give customers a positive shopping experience.
Work Schedule: 50+ hours per week, weekend work required.
Why Work for Us: Langenstein’s has recently celebrated its 100th anniversary. We know that to achieve this, we have had an amazing team of people working for us. We offer competitive wages, 401(k), and medical insurance. We are closed for 5 major holidays and our stores are not open late because we understand the importance of family time.
Responsibilities & Duties:
Customer service
Supervise and manage all areas of grocery department
Initiate and or make recommendations regarding the hiring, firing, discipline, promotion, and evaluation of department personnel
Train and maintain training with grocery department associates
Develop a weekly labor schedule for grocery department
Constantly look for ways to improve grocery department
Implement grocery processes, procedures, and/or changes to address improvement opportunities
Shrink any product that is out of date or unsellable
Complete daily walk-through of the department to determine to-do lists for department staff
Assists management team in meeting sales, stock loss, labor hour allocation objectives and margin goals
Monitor temperature of cases, shelves, and storage areas and report any failures to the Store Manager
Assist with controlling costs, managing labor costs, and reducing losses due to shrink, damage, and pilferage
Inventory control
Order products and supplies
Ensure the stockroom is clean, organized, and safety measures are being followed
Ensure shelves are stocked with sellable merchandise and no expired products
Promptly handles resets according to schedule, including deleted and new merchandise
Monitor all grocery department vendors to ensure proper adherence to the store’s guidelines
Merchandising and display grocery department products
Be observant of security problems and develop methods of prevention
Use bailer, pallet jacks and forklifts in compliance with company safety policy
Understand and practice store safety rules and notify the store manager of any potential hazard immediately
Ensure that all federal, state and company regulations and standards for product freshness, food safety, weights and measures, store safety, employee safety, refrigeration, and sanitation are met.
Compute the retail price from cost, complete price changed—PLU file and scale system maintenance, supervise the manual price marking/labeling of merchandise without a UPA code
Communicate with the store manager on problems, recommendations for change, effectiveness of plans and merchandising decisions.
Complete competition price check on commodities/items weekly
Conduct department meetings to review merchandising, sales planning, and operational problems, keeping associates informed about matters that concern them on the job
Perform miscellaneous tasks assigned by the Store Manager, substituting for absent team members, and performing any additional tasks necessary to provide products and services to customers during peak periods of business
Required Education / Experience:
High school diploma or equivalent
4+ years of experience in a grocery store management role
Ability to effectively communicate and establish working relationships with other departments and personnel.
Basic mathematical skills required (add, subtract, multiply, and divide)
Experience, understanding, and knowledge of operations in a food service business/industry
Excellent judgement, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities
Understanding of merchandising labels, order codes, numbers, reports, printed paper invoices and order forms
Must be able to work independently and have experience in team leadership
Excellent work ethic