Bashas' · 21 hours ago
067 - Bashas' Produce Team Lead - Flagstaff
Bashas' is a grocery store chain, and they are seeking a Produce Team Lead to oversee daily operations in the produce department. The role involves directing personnel, engaging with customers, and ensuring compliance with health standards while achieving sales and profit goals.
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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 team lead and produce specialist and director
Ordering produces 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
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
All other related duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Must be 18 years of age
Must be 21 years of age for any position that serves alcohol
Ability to safely work in a fast-paced environment
Excellent customer service skills
Experience in directing produce department personnel
Ability to engage with customers and provide product information
Experience in ordering merchandise and maintaining stock levels
Knowledge of merchandising fruits, vegetables, and produce products
Ability to build attractive displays of produce
Experience in tracking financial reports and creating department budgets
Knowledge of health department and weights and measures requirements
Ability to unload trailers and receive merchandise
Understanding of proper product trimming, rotation, culling, crisping, and watering techniques
Ability to monitor product pricing, signage, and placement
Ability to keep clean and orderly work and storage areas
Ability to stock dated perishable products and rotate them as necessary
Benefits
Competitive compensation, paid weekly
Retirement Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance for yourself and eligible dependents
Tuition Reimbursement for qualified courses
Scholarship opportunities for continued education
Store discount programs (10% off household groceries)
Fun work environment where you have the opportunity to nourish your community.
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.