Prepared Food Lead

Overview

Position Summary... As a Prepared Foods and Café Department Lead you will drive sales in your area and supervise your team of hourly associates who create and serve meals to our members - giving them more of what they love, for less. You will model expertise in Prepared Foods and Café and work collaboratively with other team leaders to ensure the total club meets the member’s expectations.

• Be a Team Leader:
  Supervise the team within all prepared foods departments (for example caf, rotisserie, and prepared foods) by facilitating rotations through different fresh areas and managing members eeds to deliver on the business plan and contribute to the overall success of your club. Communicate the goals of the department, execute company programs, adhere to policies, and advocate for the member, the associate, and the company.
• Be an Expert:
  Maintain in-depth knowledge of business on the floor and backroom operations by ensuring the prepared foods area meets company and regulatory standards for quality, inventory, production, sanitation, equipment usage, safety, and compliance. Manage seasonality in terms of production, understand new products, recipes, processes and production specifications, prioritizing time between areas. Collaborate with associates and third parties to ensure the team has resources to do their job effectively, sharing knowledge and training the team.
• Be a Techie:
  Leverage digital tools to plan for and drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement. Utilize handheld technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, training, and product quality, and adopt new tools and encourage others to use them.
• Be an Owner:
  Drive the business results with a commitment to operational excellence, plan for profitability, maintain a neat, clean, and safe work area in the prepared foods area, ensure appropriate staffing levels and accurate audit and compliance standards, and produce/display merchandise according to the merchandise layout plan. Engage with other departments and third-party business partners to ensure operational continuity.
• Be a Talent Ambassador:
  Teach and train the team by identifying training needs, developing necessary skills to deliver high quality products, encouraging career growth for team members, and sourcing new talent internally and externally. Develops, communicates, and implements processes and practices to meet business needs by collaborating with managers, coworkers, customers, and other business partners, analyzing and applying information from multiple sources, monitoring progress and results, and identifying improvement opportunities.
• Demonstrates, promotes, and supports compliance with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity by explaining and applying these in executing business processes and practices, and by assisting management with correcting ethical and compliance issues and problems.
• Leads and participates in teams by using and sharing resources, information, and tools; determining customer needs and business priorities; coordinating and executing work assignments; providing advice, feedback, and support to ensure timelines and work quality are achieved; and modeling and helping others adapt to change or new challenges.
• Respect the Individual:
  Embrace differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences; create a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging; create opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform; help attract the best talent.
• Act with Integrity:
  Maintain and promote the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance; model Walmart values to support and foster our culture; hold oneself and others accountable; support Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around us.
• Serve Our Customers and Members:
  Deliver results while putting the customer first; make decisions based on reliable information; balance short- and long-term priorities and consider how your work impacts the team’s ability to…