Job Description
Department: FRYS Grocery
Position Type: Employee
Position Reports To: Store Management
Position Supervises: N/A
Pay Level:
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Position Summary:
Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service. Establish and maintain a safe and clean environment that encourages our customers to return. Achieve sales and profit goals established for the department, and monitor and control all established quality assurance standards. Direct andsupervise all functions, duties and activities for the department. Support the day-to-day functions of the Grocery operations. Embrace the Customer 1 st strategy and encourage associates to deliver excellent customer service. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety of others.
Essential Job Functions:
Promote trust and respect among associates
* Communicate company, department, and job specific information to associates
* Collaborate with associates and promote teamwork to help achieve company/store goals
* Establish performance goals for department and empower associates to meet or exceed targets
* Assist in developing adequate scheduling to manage customer volume throughout hours of operation
* Train and develop associates on performance of their job and participate in the performance appraisal process
* Adhere to all local, state and federal laws, and company guidelines
* Gain and maintain knowledge of products sold within the department and be able to respond to questions and make suggestions about products
* Display a positive attitude
* Assist in developing and implementing a department business plan to achieve desired results
* Inform and educate department associates about current, upcoming and special in-store promotions, especially promotions that affect the Grocery department
* Implement the period promotional plan for the department
* Stay current with present, future, seasonal and special ads
* Monitor and control expenses for the department
* Maintain an awareness of inventory/stocking conditions; note any discrepancies in inventory
* Schedule daily, weekly and monthly price changes by updating shelf tags and promotional signs
* Assist in planning, organizing and supervising the inventory process
* Train department associates on inventory/stocking and Computer Assisted Ordering
* Adhere to all food safety regulations and guidelines
* Ensure proper temperatures in cases and coolers are maintained and temperature logs are maintained
* Reinforce safety programs by complying with safety procedures and identify unsafe conditions and notify store management
* Practice preventive maintenance by properly inspecting equipment and notify appropriate department or store manager of any items in need of repair
* Notify management of customer or employee accidents
* Report all safety risks or issues, and illegal activity, including: robbery, theft or fraud
* Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation
Minimum Position Qualifications:
* High school education or equivalent
* Effective communication skills
* Knowledge of basic math
* Ability to handle stressful situations
Desired Previous Job Experience
* Management experience preferred
* Retail experience
* Second language (speaking, reading and/or writing)
Leadership Behaviors: Achieves Results through Teamwork, Coaches and Develops Others, Communicates Effectively and Candidly, Executes with Excellence, Leads Change and Innovation, Leads through Positive Influence, Provides Clear and Strategic Direction, Puts the Customer First. For more information on the Kroger Leadership Behavior model, click here.
Education Level: High School Diploma/GED Desired
Required Certifications/Licenses: None
Shift(s): [[mfield4]]
Regions: West
States: Arizona
Keywords: Phoenix, Scottsdale, Fountain Hills
Cincinnati, OH
The Kroger Co. operates as a retailer in the United States. The company operates supermarkets, multi-department stores, marketplace stores, and price impact warehouse stores. Its combination food and drug stores offer natural food and organic sections, pharmacies, general merchandise, pet centers, fresh seafood, and organic produce; and multi-department stores provide apparel, home fashion and furnishings, outdoor living, electronics, automotive products, and toys.
The company’s marketplace stores offer full-service grocery, pharmacy, health and beauty care departments, and perishable goods, as well as general merchandise, including apparel, home goods, and toys; and price impact warehouse stores provides grocery, and health and beauty care items, as well as meat, dairy, baked goods, and fresh produce items.
It also manufactures and processes food products for sale in its supermarkets; and sells fuel through 1,537 fuel centers. As of March 7, 2019, the company operated 2,764 retail food stores under various banner names, as well as an online retail store. The Kroger Co. was founded in 1883 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.