(usa) Prepared Food Lead

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Beaumont, TX

This role is a Prepared Foods and Café Department Lead at Walmart's Sam's Club. The primary responsibilities include driving sales, supervising a team, managing inventory, ensuring quality and sanitation standards, leveraging digital tools for business decisions, and developing team members. The role focuses on operational excellence and customer service within a retail environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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
  2. Maintains an indepth 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 Collaborates with associates and third parties ensuring the team has resources to do their job effectively sharing knowledge and training the team
  3. Leverages digital tools to plan for and drive sales improve the shopping experience and elevate associate engagement Utilizes hand held technology to make immediate business decisions related to production training and product quality and adopting new tools and encouraging others to use them
  4. 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 thirdparty business partners for example maintenance personnel suppliers equipment vendors to ensure operational continuity
  5. 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

Skills

Required

  • Team leadership
  • Sales driving
  • Inventory management
  • Quality and sanitation standards
  • Digital tool utilization
  • Operational excellence
  • Staffing management
  • Merchandise display
  • Team training and development
  • Compliance with company policies and ethics

Nice to have

  • Collaboration with third parties
  • Adaptability to change
  • Customer service
  • Talent sourcing