Produce Department Manager Trainee
Core
Partner with the Department Manager to ensure the produce department runs smoothly, maintaining product freshness, managing the sales floor, and training employees.
Role type
Assistant Department Manager (Produce)
Builds
Fresh produce sales and customer experience in a retail grocery store
Domain
Grocery retail / Fresh produce
Deliverable
product features
Required skills
Produce knowledge, team leadership, inventory management, customer service, problem-solving, math skills (fractions, decimals, percentages), sanitation compliance
Preferred skills
Food safety training, over one year of similar experience
Technologies
Pallet jacks, forklifts, cardboard balers, compactors
Responsibilities
Greet customers and assist with produce needs, ensure product freshness and proper refrigeration, coordinate salad bar and juice bar operations, unload deliveries and verify invoices, train new employees, resolve customer and vendor issues, assume management duties in the manager's absence, stock aisles and manage cooler inventory
Seniority
Entry-level management / Trainee