Curbside Pickup Department Lead

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• Weekly pay

• Scheduling flexibility

• Paid parental leave

• Paid education assistance

• Team member discount

• Development programs for advancement and career growth

Please review the job profile below and apply today!

Provides clear direction for Curbside Pickup operations, ensuring efficient processes, accurate order fulfillment, and a safe, organized work area. Leads and empowers team members through daily workflow planning, coaching, and hands‑on support. Models an exceptional customer experience by delivering fast, friendly, and accurate service. Drives department performance by helping achieve pickup goals and motivating peers to maintain a consistent, winning strategy.

What you’ll be doing:

• Engages team members to deliver an outstanding Curbside Pickup experience, ensuring fast, accurate, and friendly service for every customer interaction.

• Communicates daily priorities and assigns work tasks to support efficient order picking, staging, and handoff.

• Mentors and coaches team members to exceed service, accuracy, and productivity goals while maintaining all Meijer standards. Ensures required trainings are completed on time.

• Supports onboarding and cross‑training of new and high‑potential team members, providing peer coaching that strengthens skill development and overall department performance.

• Collaborates with leadership on schedule planning to improve team engagement, customer satisfaction, and department efficiency.

• Ensures product freshness by monitoring rotation, dating, and quality checks for all items selected for pickup orders.

• Guides the team in food safety compliance and models safe work practices aligned with Meijer’s 200% accountability standards.

• Leads execution of ordering, receiving, stocking, and pricing tasks where applicable to support accurate inventory and product availability for online orders.

• Promotes a positive, inclusive culture that reflects Meijer’s commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

• Operates registers and performs cash‑handling duties when needed to support front‑end operations.

• Operates powered equipment as required for staging, stocking, or order fulfillment tasks.

• Participates in period‑end inventories to help the store achieve accuracy and shrink goals.

• Provides support in other departments as needed and may act in a Lead capacity across the store.

• Performs additional responsibilities as assigned to support overall store operations.

What You Bring with You (Qualifications):

• Passion for customer service with total engagement that conveys approachability to customers and fellow team members.

• Initiates interactions with customers and peers.

• Excellent verbal and written communication

• Retail or other customer service experience preferred

• Creative thinking skills

• Ability to influence others

• Ability to quickly build rapport and gain customer confidence to create repeat business

• Ability to lift, carry, push, pull, bend and twist while handling product

• Experience executing plans

• Positive influence to create a strong team environment.

• A commitment to fostering an inclusive environment where all team members and vendors feel valued and supported.

We opened our doors more than 90 years ago with the goal of helping people provide for themselves and their family. Today we’re a multi-billion dollar retailer with more than 70,000 employees across six states. Our Midwest geography includes corporate offices in Grand Rapids, Michigan, plus manufacturing facilities, distribution centers and over 270 stores across Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin.

Meijer is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are committed to treating all persons with dignity and respect. Meijer's policy is to not discriminate because of any applicant or team member's race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, age, physical or mental disability, uniformed service or veteran status, or any other lawfully-protected classification. If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of your application, please click here to submit your request . Submissions that are not seeking help to complete the application due to a disability will not be responded to.