Dairy Department Leader

About This Role

This role involves leading the dairy department, ensuring an outstanding customer experience, achieving sales and profit goals, and maintaining a safe and clean environment.

Responsibilities

• Promote trust and respect among associates with a positive attitude
• Communicate company, department, and job specific information to associates
• Establish performance goals for department and empower associates to meet or exceed goals through teamwork
• Develop adequate scheduling to manage customer volume throughout hours of operation
• Train and develop associates on performance of their job and participate in the performance appraisal process
• Adhere to all local, state and federal laws, food safety regulations and company guidelines
• Create an environment that enables customers to feel welcome and appreciated by answering questions and making suggestions based on product knowledge
• Offer product samples to help customers discover new items or products
• Inform customers of dairy specials
• Develop and implement a department business plan to achieve desired results

Requirements

• Must be 18 or older
• Ability to handle stressful situations
• Effective communication skills
• Knowledge of basic math (counting, addition, subtraction)

Nice to Have

• High school education or equivalent preferred
• Management experience preferred
• Dairy experience
• Retail experience
• Second language (verbal, reading and/or writing)

Benefits