Meat Lead Fresh Meat

Meat Department Lead

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, supervise 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. Work collaboratively with other team leaders to ensure the total club is meeting the members' expectations.

Be an expert, maintain an in-depth 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. Share knowledge and prioritize training for the team to understand the item specifications and utilize the approved equipment for high-volume products. Engage with the members and share passion of the product to help them make the right protein selection.

Be a techie, leverage digital tools to plan for and drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement. Utilize handheld technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, training, and product quality and adopt new tools and encourage others to use them.

Be an owner, drive 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. Ensure meat and seafood equipment and storage systems in working order, producing and displaying merchandise according to the merchandise layout plan.

Be a talent ambassador, teach and train 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. Develop, communicate, and implement 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.

Demonstrate, promote, and support 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. Lead and participate 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 accomplishments.

Act with integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, models the Walmart values to support and foster our culture, holds oneself and others accountable, supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around us. Act with integrity: Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent.

Serve our customers and members: Delivers results while putting the customer first. Serve our customers and members: Makes decisions based on reliable information, balances short and long-term priorities, and considers how own work impacts the team's ability to deliver on our purpose for all stakeholders. Strive for excellence: Displays curiosity and a desire to learn, takes calculated risks, and demonstrates courage and resilience. Strive for excellence: Drives continuous improvements, is open to and uses new technologies and skills, and supports others through change.

At Sam's Club, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet!

Health benefits include medical, vision, and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.

Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

Live Better U is a company paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart at https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J.

The hourly wage range for this position is $24.00 to $32.00*

*The actual hourly rate will equal or exceed the required minimum wage applicable to the job location.

Additional compensation in the form of premiums may be paid in amounts ranging from $0.35 per hour to $3.00 per hour in specific circumstances. Premiums may be based on schedule, facility, season, or specific work performed. Multiple premiums may apply if applicable criteria are met.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: 6 months experience in a meat production department or 6 months experience supervising a team. I acknowledge that the position for which I am applying requires me to successfully complete all job required trainings and assessments within a prescribed time period if I receive the position. Must be 18 years of age or older.

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications: Meat processing, including boneless and bone-in products, Supervising Associates Food Handler Certification (Food Safety) - Certification.

Primary Location

2325 W Hwy I 20, Grand Prairie, TX 75052-3927, United States of America

Sam's Club is an Equal Opportunity Employer- By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, abilities, ideas, and opinions- while being welcoming of all people.