Grocery Department Manager

Grocery 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• Shrink any product that is out of date or unsellable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