Description

Kim's Convenience Stores is a rapidly growing convenience store chain, currently having 20 locations with two more opening soon. We are searching for friendly, energetic, and highly motivated candidates to join our team!

Ability for the Market Manager:

• Needs to have meat cutter experience 
• Lead others within the deli/bistro department, following and setting goals and objectives, acknowledging member performance, and holding the team accountable for their performance.
• Work quickly and efficiently, sometimes with little direction, to accomplish assigned duties.
• Read UPC codes, product labels, shelf signage, business forms, and posted company policies/procedures and write pertinent department documents.
• Learn a wide variety of deli sliced meat and cheese products, salads, prepared foods, sauces as well as packaged cheese, meat, and snack products.
• Be dexterous enough with hands and fingers to be able to run a register, fill and rotate products quickly and use necessary equipment, including knives, slicers and scales.
• Communicate openly and professionally through appropriate body language, facial expressions, and speech, also communicating in writing when necessary.
• Listen to and understand verbal and non-verbal communication of customers and fellow members.
• Stand for long periods of time, bend, and twist, and frequently lift and/or maneuver merchandise and supplies.
• Lift and maneuver up to 50 lbs.,
• Often work in walk-in refrigerated coolers, and at times near ovens and burners.
• Work with all sorts of meats, vegetables and fruits, spices, nuts, flavorings, sauces, and oils.
• Engaging with customers through smiles and greetings, offering product information, providing selling suggestions and active sampling, and always giving a genuine thank you
• Overseeing the preparation and serving/merchandising of deli/bistro food service items, which includes such items as, breakfast, lunch and dinner entrees, fried chicken and other fried foods, roasting chickens, pizzas, prepared salads, sandwiches, and other meal items for hot cases, salad cases, and steam tables.
• The merchandising, slicing, and weighing of prepared deli meats and cheeses.
• Displaying deli merchandise, such as pre-cut cheeses, packaged salads, and snack items, following del/bistro department and/or company merchandising guidelines.
• Attentively rotating deli/bistro items for sale, ensuring quality and safety and product shrink control.
• Meeting all county, city and company food safety and sanitation guidelines and policies.
• Receiving merchandise for sale and supplies, auditing invoices, breaking down orders, positioning cases of products in the deli storage area or in refrigerated walk-in coolers or frozen food walk-ins’ freezers.
• Maintaining a positive and friendly attitude towards customers and fellow team members.
• Processing cash register transactions, giving back change, and refunds.
• Using scale printer machine, ensuring weights and pricing are correct.
• Understanding the importance of monitoring product pricing, signage, and placement as well as the use of product shelf tags and shelf signage.
• Keeping clean, neat, and orderly sales counters, food prep areas, warehouse shelving and walk-in coolers and freezers.
• Working safely around sharp slicers, tools and hot ovens and burners.

Benefits of being the Market Manager:

• Growing company with upward mobility
• 401(k)
• Paid Vacation
• Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements for the Market Manager

• High school education or equivalent combination of education and background.
• Must have at least three years’ experience in the grocery or natural food industry.
• Knowledge of natural foods and the natural foods industry.
• Proven ability to develop and implement budgets and to adhere to cost and margin requirements.

Qualifications for the Market Manager

• Performs other duties as needed or assigned by management. Must be at least 18 years old.
• Excellent ability to manage, price and control inventory.
• Extensive point-of-sale experience.
• Ability to plan, develop, and implement systems to provide for efficient and productive operations.
• Highly organized with the ability to prioritize and perform well under pressure.
• Ability to work well with others in a co-operative environment where teamwork and constant communication are essential.
• Experience in supervising/managing, hiring, training, motivating, and evaluating a diverse staff.
• Commitment to superior customer service and to provide the highest quality shopping experience possible.
• Demonstrated ability to follow through on commitments.
• Ability to project an outgoing, friendly personality.
• Excellent communications skills, both in listening to and instructing others.
• Good character, integrity, self-reflective, flexibility, dependability.
• Ability to ascertain and anticipate store needs.
• Ability to work weekends.
• Experience with start-ups a plus.
• Maintaining a positive and friendly attitude towards customers and fellow team members.
• Taking customer orders, ensuring orders are completed on time and to the customer's satisfaction.