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Albertsons

Runs supermarket chains across the United States

Seafood Manager

MerchandisingPosted on Nov 11
Full-timeFerndale, WA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Two years of department operations experience, or equivalent education, sufficient to understand the nature of every position within the department.
  • Knowledge of fundamental management concepts, practices, and procedures related to food service, merchandising, and retail operations.
  • Ability to learn the department's products, including willingness to taste and evaluate seafood, chef express, beef, pork, and poultry products.
  • Ability to follow instructions and procedures for proper handling of knives and other cutting equipment.
  • Ability to follow instructions and procedures while applying effective time-management skills.
  • Ability to comprehend, interpret, and analyze instructions, correspondence, government regulations, financial reports, legal documents, packing lists, manifests, pick sheets and fulfillment orders, inventory count sheets, and movement and volume reports.
  • Proven success mentoring, motivating, and leading a team.
  • Math skills for following recipes, calculating gross margins, markups, and percentages, analyzing variance, completing reports, budgeting labor and sales, completing sales transactions, and calculating discounts.
  • Ability to use Microsoft Office.
  • Ability to interact professionally and courteously with guests, crew members, store management, corporate sales managers, and leadership, including answering telephone calls and using the in-store intercom system.
  • Ability to work with cleaning chemicals and detergents to clean and sanitize tools without an allergic reaction.
  • Ability to work around food ingredients, produce, and spices without an allergic reaction.
  • Must be at least 18 years old due to equipment use and work environment.
  • Must maintain a current State Food Handler's Permit.
  • Must join a labor union.
  • Ability to routinely lift 25–50 pounds and perform standing, walking, bending, twisting, reaching, fingering, pushing, pulling, and sitting.

Responsibilities

  • Provide direct leadership to seafood department crew members, including planning and assigning work, conducting performance evaluations and coaching sessions, administering discipline when needed, providing training and development opportunities, rewarding crew members, addressing complaints, and resolving problems.
  • Participate in training and mentoring seafood department crew members to demonstrate, educate, and sell fresh seafood, service meat, and chef express products.
  • Manage the training process for new seafood crew members through their probationary period, including onboarding activities and department-specific training videos on the in-house learning management system; submit required documentation to Human Resources, including Fresh Sheets and New Hire Training Guides.
  • Conduct daily team huddles during each shift to communicate sales goals and reinforce guest-service expectations.
  • Write and place orders for ingredients, products, and supplies; check in deliveries and date, stock, and organize dry storage, freezers, and coolers.
  • Prepare seafood, service meat, and chef express products for sale by filleting, wrapping, and pricing them according to department and company policies and procedures.
  • Write daily plans and weekly work schedules that anticipate business needs.
  • Ensure seafood programs and corporate promotions are executed at store level by working with the Seafood Sales Manager on product selection and mix.
  • Control and maintain inventory using first-in, first-out principles to achieve consistent margin.
  • Rotate merchandise and maintain displays to ensure products meet the freshness guarantee.
  • Coordinate validation, item authorization, sign making, and seafood department point-of-sale maintenance.
  • Ensure all displays are properly stocked.
  • Maintain accurate records for damaged or spoiled merchandise according to company policies and procedures.
  • Comply with food and workplace safety rules and regulations.
  • Maintain safety, cleanliness, and sanitation of the work area and equipment.
  • Develop product knowledge across departments to answer guest questions and provide information about merchandise.
  • Stay updated on weekly specials, coupons, and company promotions.
  • Cultivate a team-oriented work environment that supports collaboration and cooperation.
  • Work weekends, holidays, and shifts as required by a store open seven days a week.

About the Company

Albertsons

Runs supermarket chains across the United States

Albertsons runs supermarket chains across the United States, selling groceries, fresh food and household goods under regional banners such as Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, ACME and Shaw's. Instead of one national brand, it keeps local store names that shoppers have used for decades and stocks its own labels such as Signature Select and O Organics next to national brands. Customers shop in stores or through its apps and websites for curbside pickup and home delivery, with digital coupons and rewards tied to the Albertsons for U loyalty program. It earns money mainly from retail sales in stores and online, plus fuel and advertising sold to consumer brands. Albertsons was founded in 1939 and is based in Boise, Idaho.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Boise, ID
Founded
1939

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