Meat Manager

Job Details

Position : Meat Manager

Department: Meat

Reports To: Store Director/Meat Supervisor

Flsa Status: Non-Exempt – 40 hours

Direct and manage all functions and activities of Meat Department to achieve sales and profit goals.

Essentail JobFunctions:

• Prepare a weekly schedule based on projected sales, volume and workload.
• Work out localized merchandising plans for the department as directed by the Store Director and Department supervisor.
• Follow approved Meat Department plans for effective space management based on movement, consumer demand and profitability.
• Order merchandise and control inventory to minimize out-of-stock and overstocks, and to maximize sales.
• Follow approved procedures for receiving product, price marking and restocking cases to ensure quality protection, accuracy and product rotation.
• Control department expense by ordering supplies as needed.
• Take action to control shrinkage and pilferage losses by following recommended product allocations.
• Effectively supervise, train, schedule, and conduct annual performance reviews on all Meat Department personnel.
• Follow planned program of maintenance on cases, coolers refrigeration and meat department personnel.
• Ensure a favorable department image with customers through a clean, attractive and friendly department.
• Maintain and submit required records, reports, and bi-weekly inventory.
• Observe local conditions and competitive activity relating to the Meat Department.
• Maintain good communications and competitive activity relating to the Meat Department.
• Ensure compliance with state and local health regulations.
• Ensure compliance with local, state, and government weights and measures, and labeling laws.
• Greeting all customers and be observant of your shoppers and case conditions.
• Must ensure that all employees follow proper “lock out/tag out” procedure while repairing or cleaning mechanical or electrical equipment.
• Receive, weigh, and breakdown meat and related products.
• Cut and trim all merchandise as directed by company standards.
• Abide by all company policies as stated in the Employee Handbook.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Requird:

• High school education minimum requirement.
• Ability to read and write properly to tag merchandise, order and maintain inventory and to ensure proper rotations of product.
• Above average analytical skills are necessary to study and interpret various reports to keep the department profitable.
• Must have at least two years experience as a meat cutter.
• Must have excellent oral and written communications skills for dealing with customers, employees and vendors.
• Must have dexterity in hands to enable the cutting and trimming of the meats.
• Ability to lift up to seventy (70) pounds at least forty percent (40%) of the time.