Deli & Food Service Ops Specialist- Kings and Balducci’s

Why choose us?

Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Join us for an exciting opportunity at Albertsons Companies, where innovation and customer service go hand-in-hand!

At Albertsons Companies, we are looking for someone who’s not just seeking a job, but someone who wants to make an impact. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to lead, innovate, and contribute to the growth of a company that values great service and lasting customer relationships. This position offers the chance to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that’s constantly evolving.

The Mid-Atlantic Division (Kings and Balducci's) has an opening for a Deli Ops Specialist- Food Service, The Operations Specialist monitors, enforces, and supports execution of the division merchandising plan for their department in assigned stores. Train, coach, oversee and develop store teams within department. This position is a field role with over 80% travel throughout the division. This person will support locations in the north and south. (CT, NY) and (MD and VA).

There is some flexible with the location. You can live in NY/NJ, Baltimore or Washington, DC.

Albertson's Companies Inc. has always been a people-oriented business, and thoughtful people practices remain a core element of our company's philosophy. As friendly, enthusiastic people who enjoy offering customers an exceptional shopping experience, we provide world-class customer service each and every day.

What you bring to the table:

A Day in the Life:

• Drives sales through plan-o-gram compliance, time of day standards, execution of variety & merchandising standards
• Perform resets as needed
• Trains and hold stores to standards on all new programs and or item implementation
• Communicate daily with counterparts including. District manager, department sales manager, store management, and department managers
• Reinforces our service standards and priorities on all store visits
• Travels to assigned stores working with the Department Manager and staff to share merchandising plans for departments to meet sales, gross and labor targets.
• Works with and counsel’s department Managers and Store Directors in all aspects of product merchandising and customer service.
• Visits stores and evaluates overall department presentation, cleanliness, compliance and program execution to company policy and procedures.
• Measurers store level performance through department sales, gross profit and labor percent.
• Execute plans measured through store visits, reviewing results of plans, and observing store department conditions.
• Determines success of training programs by reviewing and assessing evaluations.
• Provide work guidance to store associates in areas such as product knowledge, sales and marketing techniques, understanding of profit and loss and compliance with company policies.
• Trains department managers basics of the business and managing their department.
• Provides input to Store Director on Store Department Manager performance.

Qualifications:

• College degree or equivalent work experience.
• 5 years as a field supervisor in deli or food service in grocery retail with a strong understanding across assigned department
• Must possess previous Department Manager and Store Director experience. Take this out the one above is core priority
• Possess good written and verbal communication skills and deal effectively with a wide variety of people both in person and over the phone.
• Possess marketing orientation, good analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Possess math skills to complete straightforward analysis.
• Possess strong leadership skills with the ability to lead and motivate others without directly supervising.

Travel Requirements: Division-wide travel, up to 80%.

What you bring to the table:

• - complex systems do not intimidate you.
• You enjoy working collaboratively with cross-functional partners to drive actions & results.
• You take pride in the work you do, with every detail, whether big or small
• You can interpret, analyze and effect change through data, reports, and documents to develop solutions that affect positive and accountable results.
• You are fluent in MS Office, especially Excel (V-Lookups, Pivot tables, and writing formulas)
• Working on a fast-paced team is exciting to you.
• You can be dependent on meeting deadlines.

Making a huge impact on your customers and the company matters

We also provide a variety of benefits including:

• Competitive wages paid weekly
• Access to up to 50% of your earned wages before payday, via our partnership with Stream

• Associate discounts
• Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates (Medical, Dental, 401k and more!)
• Time off (vacation, holidays, sick pay). For eligibility requirements please visit myACI Benefits
• Leaders invested in your training, career growth and development
• An inclusive work environment with talented colleagues who reflect the communities we serve

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