Grocery Team Lead

Job Summary of Grocery Team Lead:

At Meijer, we’re a family company committed to serving people and strengthening communities. When you join our team, you’ll have opportunities to grow, lead, and make an impact. In this role, you’ll oversee daily operations, guide and support team members, and set the standard for outstanding customer experiences. You’ll help the department meet its goals while inspiring others to contribute to a winning team culture.

Benefits of Grocery Team Lead:

• Weekly pay
• Scheduling flexibility
• Paid parental leave
• Paid education assistance
• Team member discount
• Programs aimed at fostering advancement opportunities and boosting career evolution

Responsibilities of Grocery Team Lead:

• Engaging peers to provide the best possible shopping experience for our customers including an exceptional checkout experience.
• Communicating with team members and assigning daily work tasks.
• Mentoring and coaching other team members to ensure customer service and sales goals are exceeded and the area is maintained to Meijer standards and team members have completed required trainings.
• Supports training new team members/cross-training high potential talent, providing peer coaching on job responsibilities/standards to positively impact team member productivity.
• Working with leadership on department schedule writing to focus on team member engagement, improving customer service, store sales and profitability.
• Ensuring freshness of products by closely monitoring execution of rotation and dating policies.
• Guiding the team in compliance with food safety standards and regulations and working in a safe manner aligning to 200% accountability.
• Leading team members to ensure ordering, receiving, stocking, pricing, and product display are completed, where applicable.
• Actively creating an environment that supports the Meijer culture, including 
• May be required to act in Lead capacity in other departments throughout the store
• This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position. You may perform other duties as assigned or required.
• valuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
• Operating a register and cash handling when needed.
• Operating powered equipment, where applicable.
• Participating in period end inventories, where applicable, to help achieve goals.

Qualifications of Grocery Team Lead:

• Demonstrating a strong commitment to customer service through active engagement that promotes approachability towards customers and team members.
• Proactively begins discussions with customers and coworkers.
• Outstanding verbal and textual interaction
• Preferred qualifications include prior experience in retail or related customer service roles
• Creative thinking skills
• Having the power to impact the thoughts or behavior of individuals is known as the capability to influence them
• The capacity to swiftly develop a strong bond and instill customer assurance to encourage recurrent transactions
• Capacity to raise, transport, thrust, drag, flex, and rotate items during product handling
• Experience executing plans
• Encouraging a beneficial influence to foster a robust team environment.
• Committed to creating an inclusive space that ensures all members of the team and vendors are appreciated and encouraged.