Deli Manager

Deli Manager

Location: Clifton, NJ - with training in various locations

FLSA Status: Exempt

FT - Salary Range: $73,000-$85,000

Job Summary:

Responsible for overall sales and profitability of the Deli Department. Sales range from $5 - $7 million based on store location.

Key Responsibilities:

• Utilize "The Round-Up" to make informed and insightful decisions

• Review daily sales
• Product knowledge
• Organize and conduct one idea trips
• Identify and develop new products and trends
• Merchandising of product through signs, packaging, show & sell
• Ordering product
• Set retail pricing
• Ensure the highest of quality standards for all products
• Maintain price book and make any necessary changes
• Ensure proper labeled/dated product
• Review all "top 20's" and "hit list" year round
• Production planning
• Ensure recipes are consistent
• Work with demo manager and provide high sales and gross profit items for demos
• Equipment knowledge and maintenance
• Attend all department bash meetings and strategy meetings and accomplish all agreed goals
• Holiday planning/strategies
• Review returns and customer comments and act on them
• Handle customer complaints
• Comply with all health code regulations
• Comply with all safety procedures
• Hire, coach, develop, and motivate the Deli Team
• Labor management
• Communication meetings
• Performance reviews- Annual and Chats

Gross Profit

• Conduct monthly price surveys/review competitors' ads and react as needed to remain competitive
• Find and react to "buy-ins" for profitability
• Control inventory levels to ensure turnover and less waste
• Evaluate merchandising opportunities daily to maximize GP
• Review open-key to ensure proper ringing and speedy customer service

Labor

• Review daily punches
• Weekly scheduling of Team Members
• React to sales trends vs. labor

Expenses

• Review all monthly financial results and look for opportunities.
• Conduct monthly inventory
• Waste control
• Monitor transfers between departments and stores

Education and Experience:

• HS Diploma plus 5-10 years' experience; Associates Degree preferred.
• Above average math and computer skills
• Great negotiating and purchasing skills
• Merchandising ability
• Ability to delegate, prioritize and juggle many tasks
• Great communication skills
• Organizational skills

Personal Characteristics:

• Good people relations (with team members, vendors, and customers)
• Firm but fair
• Ahead of the curve on trends
• Results-oriented
• Sales-driven
• Problem solver

Working Conditions:

• Time split between office work and in production area.

• Temperature is colder than room temperature due to product being highly perishable.
• Occasional standing, walking and lifting.

Satisfy:

• Greet customers with a friendly smile and positive attitude, ensuring that each customer feels welcome and appreciated.

Teamwork:

• Collaborate with team members to ensure the smooth operation of the store, offering assistance and support where needed.

Excellence:

• Improve and maintain the efficiency of the store in order to reach success.

Wow:

• Create a memorable shopping experience for our customers
• Be a positive ambassador for the store, representing our S.T.E.W. values in all interactions with customers and team members. You are the biggest WOW!

Why you'll love working here!

Family Oriented: We respect the personal balance between work and family with career opportunity and growth- over 80% of our managers have been promoted from within.

Benefits: High value, high quality Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage, 401 K plan for FT & PT team members, family & personal time, life insurance, and more!

Environment: Have you seen the Avocado Girls? Chiquita Banana? Or the singing Parrot?

 Pay Day: We're thrilled to offer our employees Dayforce Wallet - a new way to get paid. Say bye-bye to pay day and hello to pay your way. Get your pay as soon as you earn it, at no cost to you - It's your money, why should you have to wait? Request your pay as you earn it.  

We take pride in the power of diversity, inclusion, and being socially responsible to the communities which we live and do business

For more information on working at Stew Leonard's click on the link below!

http://www.stewleonards.com/work-at-stews/