Variety Manager (61694)

Do you have a passion for food, love providing top level customer service and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment? Since our employees are also owners, they care deeply about providing high quality service to each and every customer. Our mission as an employee owned company is to offer quality food choices to the communities we serve, support local farmers and producers, and develop and reinvest in our employee owners. Apply today and begin your ownership journey!

VARIETY MANAGER

PURPOSE STATEMENT: To manage the Variety Department to achieve maximum sales and profit.

SIGNIFICANT JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. To greet customers, respond to customer questions/requests/complaints and explain store policies in a courteous manner.
2. To orient/train all new variety department employees and retrain employees when necessary.
3. To implement a weekly display plan for end-aisle merchandising and ad promotion.
4. To order all variety products, specialty foods and supplies so as to eliminate out-of-stocks while maintaining the desired variety turns.
5. To perform: 1) preparation for receipt of merchandise; 2) checking of each item in the totes; 3) sorting of totes according to aisle or location of product for stocking; 4) stocking of merchandise on shelf/peg/strip/rack according to plan-o-gram; 5) building of displays.
6. To safely use cleaning equipment and chemicals.
7. To perform: 1) loading of stocking carts; 2) transportation of totes to the sales floor on stocking carts; 3) matching of the case-strip to the shelf tag/stock; 4) sticker-price items with non-removable labels; 5) rotate stock; 6) place merchandise in the designated shelf/display position/area; 7) the "face/front" program for the front row of each display; 8) the immediate pick up/removal of all broken containers, packing materials/boxes from the sales floor or customers’ pathway.
8. To perform the safety procedures used in the operation of the baler, case cutter, pallet jack, and stocking cart.
9. To perform the counting and recording of individual items of merchandise for inventory.
10. To perform the manual price-marking/labeling of merchandise without a UPC code.
11. To supervise the movement of damaged/unsalable and "returnable" products from shelves to the backroom, sorting of the materials into bins and the return of damage to vendors.
12. To perform the changing of signs, tags and price markers.
13. To perform miscellaneous tasks assigned by the store manager, substituting for absent workers and performing any additional tasks necessary to provide products and services to customers.

QUALIFICATIONS:

REQUIRED:

1. Able to give/receive complex verbal instructions/descriptions to/from supervisors/co-workers/employees concerning store/department policy/procedures and use of equipment.
2. The ability to read and write English.  Able to read instructions, tote stickers, merchandise labels, warehouse order-codes, numbers, reports, printed paper and forms.
3. Make judgments concerning: the placement of merchandise on the shelf/display, pricing, employee scheduling, order of product/supplies, department conditions, hiring/supervision of employees, merchandising plans, department’s operational policies and procedures and the sales/promotion of merchandise.
4. Good interpersonal communications.

PREFERRED:

1. High school diploma or equivalent.
2. Prior Variety Department experience.
3. Prior experience in implementing HBC/GM planograms.

TASKS OF THE JOB – This position generally involves:

1. Mobility:

• Move while conducting training and orientation of HBC/GM Department personnel, approximately 50 yards.
• Move to supervise: the receiving of product, movement of product to the floor or storage area, opening/cutting of cases, inspect product for damage, sorting of cases/merchandise, building of displays on the shelf and at end-aisles, the allocation of space in HBC/GM categories, order merchandise and supplies, cleaning and maintenance, removal of trash/debris from the department, price-marking and signage throughout the department, maximum approximate 100 yards.
• Work on tile or concrete for a maximum of 8 hours in duration.

1. Lift and stack empty totes from floor to 72 inches overhead.
2. Lift a maximum of 45 lbs. from 6 inches to 48 inches.
3. Lift a maximum of 45 lbs. from 6 inches to 84 inches on to overhead/backroom storage rack.
4. Carry a maximum of 45 lbs. up to 15 feet.
5. Pick up/move/sort/open/"face/front" case/item/trash/from floor/shelf/ground/pallet/rack storage.
6. Attain merchandise/cases on the top of overhead/backroom storage shelves/rack, up to 84 inches from the floor.
7. Reach forward/down/up to 36 inches to attain merchandise on stocking cart or pallets, to place cases/items on shelving/displays, clean shelves/floor area or control maintenance/stocking equipment.
8. Reach up to place signs and banners in place.
9. Handle labels/signs/tags, case-cutter/utility knife and cardboard/packaging and debris.
10. Grasp and handle crushable/metal/paper/plastic store products.
11. Operate cash register keys and handle cash and coins.
12. Twist at the waist while cleaning, cutting/opening, sorting, stocking, loading/unloading, moving/removing merchandise, and stocking merchandise.
13. Climb on ladders, cases, shelving and stairs up to 10 feet in height.
14. Stock shelves 8 inches from the floor to 36 inches in height.
15. See cases, case-cutter edge, case strips, shelf location, product size/description/quality, customers, totes, shelf tags, labels on products, stocking carts, knives, packaging materials, debris on floor, aisle markers, and signs.
16. Perceive color difference on product and product labels.
17. Listen to customer, vendor and co-worker questions and responses.
18. Listen to the sound of baler/pallet jack/cleaning-equipment operation.
19. Use and respond to the intercom/phone system.
20. Read case labels/case strips, signs, tags, equipment and chemical-warning labels, shelf signs, numbers and aisle markers, department forms and reports.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Inside and outside work with extreme variations in heat/cold/dust/ humidity.