MDD Produce Assistant Section Manager

• Assist department and section managers in store development, including facility, product, and team organization.

• Conduct on-site visits as needed to monitor store operations, inventory management, freshness checks, and sanitation management within the work area.

• Work with section managers to develop products and implement product revisions and discontinuations within the section. Ensure food safety, customer satisfaction, and cost control from the early stages.

• Build teams and establish operating procedures and instructions for existing stores and new business locations.

• Ensure product registration and product master management.

• Negotiate product development and product purchasing.

• Ensure inventory management and implement appropriate purchasing plans based on sales plans and sales volumes to prevent product stockouts.

• Perform other duties as directed by a supervisor or manager.

Requirements:

· Experience in sales at a store in one of Perishable departments (produce, fresh fish, or meat), including procurement duties, store numerical management, and sales guidance.

· Demonstrate knowledge of food safety and general facility safety practices and procedures

· Must be able to use job related equipment such as knives, wrappers, scales, compactors, garbage disposals, hand trucks and pallet jack.

· Comfortably connect with people and reach a level of hospitality that exceeds customers' expectation

· Has passion about food, thrive in a fast-paced environment and can still maintain a calm demeanor

· Able to approach every situation with a YES! attitude and seek to find a solution to all opportunities that arise.

· Must have mathematical skills which related to the job function