Cheese Shop / Murray's Cheese Master

About This Role

Create a unique customer cheese experience by embodying food passion, cheese knowledge, and interactive service. Lead a team and drive sales through merchandising and product promotion, maintaining Murray's Cheese standards.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain the Murray’s Cheese experience: interactive customer service, ongoing product education, effective cross-selling, merchandising, pushing and promoting designated products
• Maintain knowledgeable, efficient, friendly staff fully trained in Murray’s operations and products
• Ensure all Kroger and Murray’s policies, operating standards, and procedures are communicated effectively, maintained, and followed at all times
• Ensure that staff adheres to all Food Safety, Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point, and Sanitation Procedures
• Place orders and maintain inventory
• Responsible for setting up weekly in store selling events
• Contribute to store goals for increasing sales and improving profit
• Effectively control shrink and waste by following Murray’s and Kroger’s Best Practices
• Control labor expenses through appropriate scheduling
• Meet and/or exceed budgetary goals for the Murray’s Cheese Shop
• Supervise and coach direct reports on the performance of their duties; complete performance reviews and provide feedback to direct reports

Requirements

• Management experience or Food Retail experience or two year Culinary Degree
• Willing to taste cheese daily
• Supportive of cheese business initiatives
• Able to inspire, motivate and train staff while ensuring successful completion of all tasks
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to multi-task
• Proficient with Microsoft Excel and Word
• Strong desire to learn, enthusiasm for the product, and an interest and willingness to try new and innovative approaches

Qualifications

• Two-year Culinary Degree
• Management experience or Food Retail experience

Nice to Have

• Past work record reflects dependability and integrity
• Prior food handling
• Supervisory skills

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits