Bakery Lead

Meijer is coming to Fishers, IN! Be part of the excitement and help launch our newest store. This Bakery Lead role combines leadership development with day‑to‑day impact. As a Department Lead, you'll help guide your department by supporting teammates, reinforcing standards, and delivering great customer experiences. If you enjoy mentoring others and keeping things running smoothly, this could be your next step. Great benefits that include team member discounts, weekly pay, and much more! What you'll be doing: Engaging peers to provide the best possible shopping experience for our customers including an exceptional checkout experience. Communicating with team members and assigning daily work tasks. Mentoring and coaching other team members to ensure customer service and sales goals are exceeded and the area is maintained to Meijer standards and team members have completed required trainings. Supports training new team members/cross‑training high‑potential talent, providing peer coaching on job responsibilities/standards to positively impact team member productivity. Working with leadership on department schedule writing to focus on team member engagement, improving customer service, store sales and profitability. Ensuring freshness of products by closely monitoring execution of rotation and dating policies. Guiding the team in compliance with food safety standards and regulations and working in a safe manner aligning to 200% accountability. Leading team members to ensure ordering, receiving, stocking, pricing, and product display are completed, where applicable. Actively creating an environment that supports the Meijer culture, including valuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Operating a register and cash handling when needed. Operating powered equipment, where applicable. Participating in period end inventories, where applicable, to help achieve goals. May be required to act in Lead capacity in other departments throughout the store. This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position. You may perform other duties as assigned or required. 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. 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 submit your request. #J-18808-Ljbffr Meijer