Fresh Manager

BJ's Wholesale Club was the first retailer to introduce the warehouse club concept in the northeastern United States. Today, we’re a multibillion dollar operation with more than 200 clubs in 17 states from Maine to Florida.

While our Members know us for helping them save up to 25% off grocery prices every day, our Team Members love us for providing a supportive and engaging workplace that’s committed to developing great talent.

If you’re a motivated and enthusiastic person who enjoys working collaboratively and is committed to providing great service for our Members, we want to hear from you. BJ’s offers a fast-paced, team environment with great training opportunities and competitive salary and benefits packages to help you succeed.

 Responsibilities

• Ensures operational efficiencies, processes, and productivity standards are executed with 100% adherence to established SOP within the bakery, deli, produce, and prepared food departments. Utilize Player Lync to assist with training and merchandising planning.
• Maintain relationships with 3^rd party vendors
• With the club management team, responsible for achieving financial targets including sales, profit, and performance. Reviews budgets, plans and P&L to ensure achievement of key targets relative to sales, perishable penetration, profits, and performance.
• Manages all fresh department team members and holds department meetings to update team members on club policies and procedures
• Provides leadership and direction, and manages day-to-day operations, of Fresh departments (produce, deli, bakery, and prepared foods) within the club. May be required to perform daily hands-on tasks to validate and train newly hired team members.
• Escalates issues as appropriate to Home Office or Club Manager as needed.
• Responsible for the effective communication of departmental activities and Home Office initiatives to club Team Members, club management and club support teams.
• Maintains deep knowledge of club policies and procedures within the department and across all areas of the club. Provides leadership and direction to deli clerks, bakery clerks, produce clerks and prepared foods team members within the club.
• Directly manages and assesses Team Member performance, provides actionable feedback and coaches, teaches, and develops talent. Assists in hiring, training and performance management of all deli, bakery, produce and prepared food team members. Ensuring departments are properly staffed.
• Evaluates departmental performance using company reporting programs and achieves sales targets while effectively managing waste. Drives daily utilization and adherence to production tools and reports.
• Leads deli, bakery, produce and prepared food team members to validate and ensure that all sanitation, food safety and safety policies and procedures are in place and being effectively executed.
• Reviews forecasting, ordering, and replenishment of fresh product and supplies. Manages monthly inventory process and evaluates results.
• Validates that team members are following proper processes and items are weighed and priced accurately.
• Ensures that all products are fresh and meet company quality standards. Maintains the proper rotation of received goods.
• Receives and inspects fresh shipments. Ensures fresh freezers and coolers are neat and organized. All fresh shelves and display cases are stocked.
• Responsible for the execution of all deli, bakery, produce, and prepared food related merchandising directives and sales initiatives.
• Continually monitors member service levels, answers member questions, recommends fresh items, and ensures an outstanding service experience is delivered to all Members.
• Responsible for the proper maintenance and working order of the equipment, furniture, and fixtures within the fresh departments. Responsible for ensuring that equipment outages are properly escalated and addressed.
• Monitors BJ’s MY WORK to ensure that all Home Office tasks, and product liabilities are actioned within compliance and in a timely manner. Reviews and understands the fresh notes and tools. 
• Maintains all club policies and procedures.
• Performs other duties as assigned, including working in other departments as needed
• Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of this job.

BJ's Wholesale Club is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for all qualified team members and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, ancestry, national origin, physical and/or mental disability, genetic information, atypical cellular or blood trait, marital and/or familial status, pregnancy, gender identity and expression, military or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.