Produce Lead

Overview

As a Produce Department Lead you will drive sales in your area and supervise your team of hourly associates to deliver to our members more of what they love, for less. You will model expertise in Produce and work collaboratively with other team leaders to ensure the total club meets the member’s expectations.

• Be a Team Leader. Supervises the team in Produce and Floral area to deliver on the business plan and contribute to the overall success of the club.
• Communicates the goals of the department, executing company programs, adhering to policies, and being an advocate for the member, the associate, and the company.
• Works collaboratively with other team leaders to ensure the total club is meeting the members expectations.
• Be an Expert. Maintains an in-depth knowledge of business on the floor and backroom operations, ensuring the produce area meets company standards for quality, inventory, production, sanitation, equipment usage, safety, and compliance.
• Manages seasonality in terms of item volume, product knowledge, processes, and prioritizing time between areas.
• Collaborates with associates, ensuring the team has resources to do their job effectively, sharing knowledge and training the team.
• Be a Techie. Leverages digital tools to plan for and drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement. Utilizes handheld technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, training, and product quality, and adopts new tools and encourages others to use them.
• Be an Owner. Drives the business results, ensuring commitment to operational excellence, planning for profitability, maintaining a neat, clean, and safe work area for the team and members. Maintains adequate staffing levels, accurate audit and compliance standards, producing and displaying merchandise according to the merchandise layout plan and modeling a commitment to member service.
• Be a Talent Ambassador. Teaches and trains the team to be highly effective, identifies potential and desire in others, provides and develops necessary skills to deliver high quality products to the members, and encourages career growth for all associates; sources new talent internally and externally to join the team.
• Develops, communicates, and implements processes and practices to meet business needs by collaborating with managers, coworkers, customers, and other business partners; analyzes and applies information from multiple sources; monitors progress and results; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities.
• Demonstrates, promotes, and supports compliance with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity by explaining, guiding, and demonstrating how to apply these in executing business processes and practices; implements related action plans using the Open Door Policy; assists 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; modeling and helping others adapt to change or new challenges.
• Respects the individual by embracing differences, creating a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging; creates opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform; works as a team and builds strong, trusting relationships; communicates with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence.
• Acts with integrity by maintaining the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance; models Walmart values; holds oneself and others accountable; supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around us.
• Serves our customers and members by delivering results while putting the customer first; makes decisions based on reliable information; balances short- and long-term priorities and considers how your work impacts the team’s ability to deliver on our purpose…