Produce Team Manager

Company: Whole Foods Market
Location: Boston
Posted on: November 1, 2024

Job Description:

Produce Team Leader Job DescriptionJob Summary: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Produce Team Leader to join our team at Whole Foods Market. As a Produce Team Leader, you will be responsible for providing overall leadership to the Produce team, ensuring exceptional customer service, and driving sales growth.Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership and Team Management: Hold ATLs, supervisors, and team members accountable for delivering outstanding customer service, build a positive work environment, and make hiring and separation decisions.
• Operational Excellence: Monitor and achieve sales, purchasing, and labor targets, maintain proper product assortment, merchandising, and inventory control, and establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with department leaders and vendors.
• Customer Service: Foster a positive environment of outstanding teamwork, mutual respect, and exceptional morale, maintain awareness of customer flows and needs, and direct team members as necessary to satisfy and delight customers.
• Team Development: Select, train, develop, mentor, motivate, and counsel team members in a manner that sustains a high-performance team and minimizes turnover, provide timely, thorough, and thoughtful performance evaluations, and consistently communicate and model WFM vision and goals.Requirements:
  • Experience: 24+ months retail experience, including 12+ months of team leadership experience.
  • Skills: Advanced knowledge of products, buying, pricing, merchandising, and inventory management, excellent interpersonal, motivational, team building, and customer relationship skills, and proficiency with email, Microsoft Office, and operations-related applications.
  • Certifications: Food safety certification, if not currently certified, commit to completing certification within 6 months.Working Conditions:
    • Physical Requirements: Ability to lift 50 pounds, stand/walk 6-8 hours in an 8-hour workday, and work in a wet and cold environment.
    • Schedule: Ability to work a flexible schedule, including nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.Whole Foods Market is an Equal Opportunity Employer: We provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all team members and candidates, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, marital status, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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