About the Role
The Dairy/Frozen Manager is responsible for the successful operation and profitability of the dairy/frozen department, including training, directing, and monitoring all department staff. Department Managers are responsible for their department's success and are required to fulfill Manager on Duty (MOD) duties on a scheduled basis.
Responsibilities
- Provide world-class customer service as a top priority.
- Exemplify integrity, responsibility, and excellence, adhering to all policies.
- Create inviting, full, and shopable departments.
- Order for the dairy/frozen department (including deli and meat) and maintain accurate inventory levels.
- Manage margin, COGS, and overall department profitability, minimizing shrink and maximizing effective purchasing.
- Ensure all in-stock products and conditions meet company standards.
- Offer and follow up on special orders.
- Merchandise shelves, endcaps, and dynamic displays.
- Manage and participate in tagging, facing, rotating, cleaning, markdowns, stocking, and backstock.
- Train and monitor department personnel, assigning and following up on tasks.
- Work with other department managers to cross-train staff.
- Conduct active and passive demos.
- Assist in interviewing and hiring for department needs.
- Work with the store manager to address performance and/or disciplinary issues within the department.
- Open and close the store, including DSR and the closing cash process.
- Handle register functions including backup cashiering, managing customer returns, addressing customer complaints, and covering register shift changes.
- Maintain the safety and security of customers and employees.
- Manage business disruptions such as loiterers, solicitation, emergency weather situations, and bathroom misuse.
- Answer customer questions per company standards and policies.
- Continually increase product knowledge.
- Utilize SAP and inventory management software, run and analyze reports on BEx, and use other IS programs.
- Work a schedule based on store needs, including evenings, weekends, and holidays.
- Be 'hands-on' and do whatever it takes to get the job done and make the company thrive.
Requirements
- High School diploma, GED or equivalent preferred.
- Ability to obtain forklift certification.
- 1-2 years of retail experience in a grocery or retail environment preferred; natural foods background is a plus.
- 1-2 years of experience supervising others preferred.
- Ability to pass food safety training courses and/or certifications as required by law and maintain compliance.
- Ability to manage changing priorities and stay focused on the task at hand.
- Sense of urgency in task completion.
- Excellent customer service skills.
- Highly organized with great attention to detail.
- Ability to take direction and follow through.
- Must be cashier trained and able to count currency.
- Proficient in MS Word, Excel and Outlook.
- Must have the ability to constantly lift or carry up to 10 lbs., frequently lift or carry 11-20 lbs., and occasionally lift or carry 21-50 lbs.
- Must have the ability to occasionally lift or carry 51-100 lbs. with a team lift.
- Must have the ability to frequently push or pull up to 15 lbs. and occasionally push or pull 16-100 lbs.
- Must be able to occasionally use the computer for data entry and mouse use.
- Must be able to constantly walk, stand, use fine motor manipulations, grip, bend, twist, turn, and reach outward.
- Must be able to frequently reach above chest.
- Must be able to occasionally sit, squat, kneel, and climb as needed.
- Must be able to frequently work with sharp tools and equipment, dust, fumes, and congested worksite.
- Must be able to occasionally work with noise, cold, heat, wet, humid, outside, heights, and contact stress.
Skills
- Inventory management
- Customer service
- Merchandising
- Training
- Supervision
- MS Word
- MS Excel
- MS Outlook
- SAP
Location
- Onsite
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 1-2 years of retail experience
- 1-2 years of supervisory experience
Education Level
- High School diploma, GED or equivalent preferred
Salary/Compensations
- USD $21.00/Hr.
Benefits
- Birthday Bonus Pay
- Vitamin Bucks (up to $2,080 earned as store credit annually)
- Holiday Pay for 5 Holidays – Stores Closed
- Paid Time Off (sick days and vacation) that Increases with Tenure
- Paid Nutrition Education
- good4u Crew Member Discount
- {N}power Program
- Regular, Scheduled Pay Increases
- Advancement Opportunities and Career Development
- Health and Wellness Program
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Employee Referral Program
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (Full-Time)
- Paid Parental Leave (Full-Time)
- Paid Medical Leave (Full-Time)
- Company Paid Short-Term Disability Insurance (Full-Time)
- Company Paid Life Insurance (Full-Time)
- Voluntary Benefits Including Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Long-Term Disability Insurance, Term Life Insurance (Full-Time)
- Retirement Savings Plan (401k) with discretionary Company Match (Full-Time)
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA) (Full-Time)
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with Company Match (Full-Time)
About the Company
- At the heart of Natural Grocers' commitment to our community and crew is this belief: All people should be empowered to experience health and wellbeing!
- We cannot be true to this conviction without honoring diversity and cultivating inclusion throughout every aspect of our organization.
- At Natural Grocers, we honor our differences, embrace diversity, and cultivate inclusion because both individual and societal health are rooted in these principles.
- Our Crew is diverse not only in gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, abilities, and age but also in cultural backgrounds, thoughts, and ideas.
- Celebrating our diversity refreshes, expands, and shapes our perspective, energizing our mission of equitable access to health and wellness for all.
- We welcome everyone who would like to join us in this mission, with gratitude for the unique life experience each person brings to the table.
- We’re committed to nurturing an ecosystem of diversity and inclusion in which our Crew can continue to thrive.
Equal Opportunity
- All people should be empowered to experience health and wellbeing!
- We cannot be true to this conviction without honoring diversity and cultivating inclusion throughout every aspect of our organization.
- At Natural Grocers, we honor our differences, embrace diversity, and cultivate inclusion because both individual and societal health are rooted in these principles.
- Our Crew is diverse not only in gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, abilities, and age but also in cultural backgrounds, thoughts, and ideas.
- Celebrating our diversity refreshes, expands, and shapes our perspective, energizing our mission of equitable access to health and wellness for all.
- We welcome everyone who would like to join us in this mission, with gratitude for the unique life experience each person brings to the table.
- We’re committed to nurturing an ecosystem of diversity and inclusion in which our Crew can continue to thrive.
