(USA) Meat Lead

## Position Summary... As a Meat Department Lead you will drive sales in your area and supervise your team of hourly associates to deliver to our members more of what they love, for less. You will model expertise in Meat and work collaboratively with other team leaders to ensure the total club meets the member’s expectations. ## What you'll do... Be a Team Leader Supervises the team within the meat department to deliver on the business plan and contribute to the overall success of the club by communicating the goals of the department executing company programs adhering to policies and being an advocate for the member the associate and the company working collaboratively with other team leaders to ensure the total club is meeting the members expectations Be an Expert Maintains an indepth knowledge of business on the floor backroom operations product updates and product specifications by ensuring the meat department meets company and regulatory standards for quality inventory production equipment usage safety sanitation and compliance sharing knowledge and prioritizes training for the team to understand the item specifications and utilize the approved equipment for high volume products engaging with the members and shares passion of the product to help them make the right protein selection Be a Techie Leverages digital tools to plan for and drive sales improve the shopping experience and elevate associate engagement Utilizes hand held technology to make immediate business decisions related to production training and product quality and adopting new tools and encouraging others to use them Be an Owner Drives the business results ensuring commitment to operational excellence maintaining a neat clean and safe work area in the meat department utilizing Digital Tools for forecasting planning and production facilitating the product inventory and ordering process ensuring appropriate staffing levels and accurate audit and compliance standards ensuring meat and seafood equipment and storage systems in working order producing and displaying merchandise according to the merchandise layout plan Be a Talent Ambassador Teaches and trains the team by identifying training needs providing and developing necessary skills to deliver high quality products to the members encouraging career growth for team members and sourcing new talent internally and externally to work on the team Develops communicates and implements processes and practices to meet business needs by collaborating with managers coworkers customers and other business partners analyzing and applying information from multiple sources monitoring progress and results and identifying and addressing improvement opportunities Demonstrates promotes and supports compliance with company policies procedures and standards of ethics and integrity by explaining guiding and demonstrating how to apply these in executing business processes and practices implementing related action plans using the Open Door Policy: and assisting management with correcting ethical and compliance issues and problems Leads and participates in teams by using and sharing resources information and tools determining customer needs and business priorities coordinating and executing work assignments providing advice feedback and support to ensure timelines and work quality are achieved and modeling and helping others with how to adapt to change or new challenges Respect the Individual: Embraces differences in people cultures ideas and experiences creates a workplace where associates feel seen supported and connected through a culture of belonging creates opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform helps to attract the best talent Respect the Individual: Works as a team builds strong and trusting relationships communicates with impact energy and positivity to motivate and influence Respect the Individual: Strengthens the team by helping developing and mentoring others recognizes others contributions and accomplishm…