(USA) Prepared Food Lead

Position Summary: As a Prepared Foods and Café Department Lead you will drive sales in your area and supervise your team of hourly associates who create and serve meals to our members—giving them more of what they love, for less. You will model expertise in Prepared Foods and Café and work collaboratively with other team leaders to ensure the total club meets the members’ expectations. Responsibilities Be a Team Leader: supervise the team within all prepared foods departments, facilitating rotations through different fresh areas and managing members’ needs to deliver on the business plan and contribute to the overall success of your club. Be an Expert: maintain an in‑depth knowledge of business on the floor and backroom operations, ensuring the prepared foods area meets company and regulatory standards for quality, inventory, production, sanitation, equipment usage, safety, and compliance. Collaborate with associates and third parties: ensure the team has resources, share knowledge, and train the team. Be a Techie: leverage digital tools to plan for and drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement; utilize hand‑held technology for immediate business decisions related to production, training, and product quality. Be an Owner: drive business results, ensuring commitment to operational excellence, planning for profitability, maintaining a neat, clean, and safe work area, ensuring appropriate staffing levels and accurate audit and compliance standards, producing and displaying merchandise according to the merchandise layout plan. Be a Talent Ambassador: teach and train the team, identify training needs, provide and develop necessary skills, encourage career growth for team members, and source new talent internally and externally. Develop: communicate and implement processes and practices to meet business needs, collaborating with managers, coworkers, customers, and other business partners, monitoring progress and results, and identifying improvement opportunities. Demonstrate compliance: promote and support compliance with company policies, procedures, and ethical standards, assisting management with correcting ethical and compliance issues. Lead and participate in teams: use and share resources, information, and tools; determine customer needs and business priorities, coordinate and execute work assignments, and provide advice, feedback, and support to ensure timelines and work quality. Respect the Individual: embrace differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences, create a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging, and create opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform. Act with Integrity: maintain the highest standards of integrity and ethics, model the Walmart values, hold oneself and others accountable, and support Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company. Serve our Customers and Members: deliver results while putting the customer first, make decisions based on reliable information, balance short‑ and long‑term priorities, and consider how one’s work impacts the team’s ability to deliver on our purpose for all stakeholders. Strive for Excellence: display curiosity and a desire to learn, take calculated risks, and demonstrate courage and resilience; drive continuous improvements, be open to and use new technologies, and support others through change. Minimum Qualifications 6 months experience in a fresh production department or 6 months experience supervising a team. Must be 18 years of age or older. I acknowledge that the position for which I am applying requires me to successfully complete all job‑required trainings and assessments within a prescribed time period if I receive the position. Preferred Qualifications Experience supervising a team. Food Handler Certification (Food Safety). Compensation and Benefits The hourly wage range for this position is $21.00 to $29.00. The actual hourly rate will equal or exceed the required minimum wage applicable to the job location. Additional compensation in the form of premiums may be paid in amounts ranging from $0.35 per hour to $3.00 per hour in specific circumstances. Benefits include health coverage (medical, vision, and dental), financial benefits (401(k), stock purchase and company‑paid life insurance), paid time off (PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting), short‑term and long‑term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. Live Better U is a company‑paid education benefit program for full‑time and part‑time associates in Walmart and Sam’s Club facilities, covering tuition, books, and fees. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on job classification and length of employment. Company Policies Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug‑free workplace and have a no‑tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment. #J-18808-Ljbffr Walmart