Fresh Foods Department Manager
€2.3k/mo+ 5% employee discount
Mid
Lyon, France
In Person
RetailRetail Store Management
About the job
Requirements
- The candidate should be autonomous, organized, and bold.
- The candidate must comply with applicable hygiene, quality, safety, labeling, pricing, customer-information, and misleading-advertising regulations.
- The candidate must maintain compliance with working-time regulations and applicable collective-agreement provisions.
Responsibilities
- Manage supply, presentation, and activity of the fresh-food department and organize and lead its team.
- Develop and take responsibility for the department's customer-relationship approach.
- Welcome, inform, guide, and advise customers using an appropriate commercial approach.
- Handle customer disputes and propose solutions to management.
- Propose and plan department promotions after management approval.
- Contribute to achieving department objectives, identify variances, implement corrective actions, and monitor results.
- Calculate promotional commitments.
- Validate or place replenishment orders and deal with approved suppliers.
- Verify deliveries and follow up on supplier disputes and nonconformity reports.
- Propose deleting or creating products to management.
- Manage department stock and consumables and organize and control inventories.
- Implement measures to prevent shrinkage and reduce food waste.
- Maintain the department, including presentation, upkeep, and maintenance.
- Set up and monitor department signage, point-of-sale advertising, and point-of-sale information.
- Monitor merchandising plans and product displays.
- Set retail prices in accordance with store pricing policy and monitor price schedules and promotional leaflets.
- Ensure the product assortment reflects seasonality.
- Rotate products between the stockroom, cold rooms, and department, and maintain orderly storage.
- Conduct competitor price surveys, document findings, and implement approved corrective actions.
- Support a positive social climate and quality work, and report difficulties to management.
- Organize, monitor, and control team work to ensure strong customer service; address performance issues and propose disciplinary sanctions when necessary.
- Prepare and monitor team working-hour and vacation schedules and submit them to management for approval.
- Monitor and control attendance, working time, and breaks.
- Lead the team by integrating new employees, organizing information, motivation, and training meetings, conducting team evaluations, and identifying training needs with management.
- Provide rotating coverage at the point of sale.
- Monitor legislative developments within the role's scope, bring the point of sale into compliance after consulting management, and inform employees.
- Enforce hygiene and quality rules, including product withdrawal based on use-by or minimum-durability dates, traceability, and cold-chain compliance.
- Enforce safety rules, including clear aisles, personal protective equipment, and proper functioning of department tools and equipment.
- Enforce regulations concerning signage, labeling, customer information, prices, and misleading advertising.
- Be able to place orders.
About the company
Groupement Les Mousquetaires runs a network of retail banners across four countries, including Intermarché (fresh groceries), Bricomarché (home improvement), and Roady (auto services). Stores are owned by thousands of local partners who participate in management, so customers shop for products and services through locally run outlets. The group distinguishes itself by a cooperative-style governance that links store owners with the communities served, enabling locally adapted assortments and close proximity. Its goal is to maximize proximity to communities and create opportunities for customers, partners, and employees through a multi-banner, locally driven business model.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Alcanena, Portugal
Founded
1969
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- September 2026 Auchan deal adds 167 supermarkets, accelerating reach toward 20% share.
- June 2025 Colruyt acquisition brings 81 stores and 44 fuel stations.
- La Farlède pilot cut checkout errors from 3% to under 1%.
What critics are saying
- September 2026 inflation warnings from Thierry Cotillard signal brutal pricing pressure through winter 2026.
- The 2026 Auchan conversion spans seven waves, risking execution delays and staff churn.
- Failed Colruyt and Auchan integrations hand traffic to Carrefour and E.Leclerc, crushing 2028 ambitions.
What makes Groupement Les Mousquetaires unique
- Independent-merchant ownership keeps Intermarché, Netto, and Bricomarché locally entrepreneurial.
- September 2026 Auchan franchise conversion proves Mousquetaires can absorb 167 stores quickly.
- Diebold Nixdorf's 2025 AI rollout shows operational discipline against shrink.
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Benefits
- Parental Leave
- Health Insurance
- Paid Vacation
- Employee Discount