Market Manager

Brookshire Grocery Company (BGC) is dedicated to building a community where employees can thrive. The Market Manager is responsible for managing department sales and profits, leading personnel, maintaining product quality, and ensuring compliance with food safety practices.

Responsibilities:

• Carries out management responsibilities including interviewing, hiring, training and developing partners; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance, rewarding and disciplining partners; and scheduling, addressing complaints, and resolving problems
• Reviews historical data to predict future sales from ads and promotions. Manages inventory using item management processes to ensure satisfactory in-stock levels. Reviews profit and loss, sales, shrink, and labor data; provides verbal or written summary to upper management regarding any related issues
• Responsible for maintaining and improving sales performance, financial results, public relations, product quality, and work standards
• Checks inventory on trucks, unloads products, and ensures accuracy of inventory, product ordering, and associated paperwork
• Cuts, weighs, packages, and labels product. Uses non-precision and precision tools and/or instruments to cut or saw unfinished meat products into desired sizes, shapes, and/or weights
• Enforces quality control and food safety standards and ensures dated products are stocked and rotated properly. Makes fine judgements about aroma, texture, and color to inspect prepared foods for quality
• Ensures that coolers and freezers are organized according to Company guidelines. Adheres to all governmental product origin labeling
• Conducts on-the-job training, instructing in use of tools and equipment, and demonstrating procedures
• Promotes product sales through use of suggestive selling initiatives
• Ensures maintenance of stock conditions on market and seafood display racks and shelves
• Provides friendly and customer service-oriented attitude by greeting customers, answering questions, and responding to customer complaints
• Maintains clean, safe and sanitary working and shopping environment by adhering to Company safety procedures

Requirements:

• Minimum of 18 years of age required
• Partners must be 21 years of age or older to drive for Company business in accordance with the BGC Business Driver Policy
• High school Diploma or GED required and two or more years of related experience; or an equivalent combination of experience and/or higher education required
• Food Handler certification required
• Manager Food Safety certification required
• Advanced knowledge of market department operations
• Advanced knowledge of scheduling software systems
• Advanced knowledge of in-store ordering machine and inventory management processes
• Ability to lead and motivate others
• Ability to read and operate digital equipment, meters, dials, and/or calibrated scales
• Ability to safely operate and maintain department equipment
• Ability to operate a manual or electric pallet jack
• Ability to safely operate hazardous tools and equipment such as a bailer, etc
• Ability to safely work with sharp objects such as saws, meat grinder, knives, box cutters, etc
• Ability to use non-precision and precision hand tools
• Ability to work well with fellow partners and promote a team environment
• Ability to effectively communicate (in written and verbal form) with customers and partners
• Ability to work flexible schedules including nights, weekends and holidays
• Must be attentive to potential hazards and remedy or place appropriate warning signs or devices around or near the hazard as soon as is reasonably possible
• Must report any potential hazards that cannot be immediately remedied to a supervisor
• Prerequisite experience as a meatcutter, apprentice, and/or manager trainee preferred