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 - Supervises the team within all prepared foods departments (for example caf, rotisserie and prepared foods) by facilitating rotations through different fresh areas and managing members needs to deliver on the business plan and contribute to the overall success of your club; communicating the goals of the department; executing company programs; adhering to policies; and being an advocate for the member, the associate and the company.
• Be an Expert - Maintains an 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; manages seasonality in terms of production, understanding new products, recipes, processes and production specifications; prioritizing time between areas.
• 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 adopting new tools and encouraging 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 in the prepared foods area, ensuring appropriate staffing levels and accurate audit and compliance standards; producing and displaying merchandise according to the merchandise layout plan; engaging with other departments and third-party business partners for example maintenance personnel, suppliers, equipment vendors to ensure operational continuity.
• Be a Talent Ambassador - Teaches and trains the team by identifying training needs, providing and developing necessary skills to deliver high quality products to the members, encouraging career growth for team members and sourcing new talent internally and externally to work on the team; 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 and addressing 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; implementing related action plans using the Open Door Policy and assisting management with correcting ethical and compliance issues and problems.
• Leads and participates in teams - 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.
• Respect the Individual - Embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas and experiences; creates 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; builds strong, trusting relationships; communicates with impact, energy and positivity to motivate and influence; strengthens the team by helping develop and mentoring others;
  
  recognizes others contributions and accomplishments.
• Act with Integrity - Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models Walmart values to support and foster our culture; holds oneself and others accountable; supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative…