With the Meat and Seafood Manager, you are an ambassador of the department and setting an example for excellence as you assist in the management of all relevant functions and activities.
- Coordinating the ordering of seafood items with the Meat and Seafood Manager
- Greeting guests and proactively assisting them in a friendly manner with accurate and timely information
- Making recommendations and accommodating requests
- Managing order guides/ordering deadlines/reducing shrink/damage
- Properly receiving/stocking of goods that follow rotation standards when replenishing product levels
- Engage, motivate, coach, and train team members “on-the-job” as well as through The Fresh Market’s internal training platform to provide excellent guest service in a safe and secure manner
- Consistently provide excellent guest service, which includes:
- Engaging with our guests to learn their wants and needs so that you can help them create their meal solution
- Maintaining knowledge of products and weekly ad items throughout the store and working across departments to assist guests
- Create a hospitable shopping experience by merchandising and stocking our products and specialty items throughout the day, while also making sure nearby guests are assisted
- Gather shopping carts from the parking lot and assist in general housekeeping duties throughout the store
- Present self in a professional manner, including adhering to uniform standards
- Flexibility and ability to travel on a regular basis (approximately 40%).
- Manages a program comprising a complex portfolio of development and construction projects, along with existing store remodel projects.
- Clearly defines and documents program scope, terms of delivery, and business objectives.
- Organizes and manages program teams consisting of various skill sets to include architecture, engineering, consultants, contractors and landlord teams.
- Validates appropriate resourcing to deliver program requirements.
- Manages internal and external relationships as they relate to programs including roles, level of involvement, and expectations.
- Effectively monitors resource, cost loading, and spend-out for entire portfolio.
- Manages portfolio expenditures against approved CAPEX.
- Provides guidance to internal/external teams.
- Validates scoping and costing efforts and ensures an achievable schedule for portfolio projects.
- Manages risk by routinely identifying, assessing, and developing mitigation plans for events that could impact the success of the program.
- Develops specific program metrics and milestone reporting that allows for full transparency and visibility.
- Develops and manages execution of program communication plans which ensure that information related to progress, and issues are being communicated with the program teams, stakeholders, steering committees, and sponsors. This includes presentations as needed/required to Real Estate Committee and company leadership.
- Practices accountability with regular reporting to internal teams and summary reporting for the leadership team.
- Assist in annual, quarterly, period, and weekly sales and margin forecasting, post-analysis, and budget planning.
- Prepare analysis to forecast demand planning for existing and proposed promotional plans; including: 1 and 3 day sales, weekly and monthly ad items, holiday sales, and contract items.
- Assist in the process of reviewing store layouts, planogram assignments, and overall space to sales metrics to optimize space allocations across assigned category.
- Assist the Category Managers in creating and uploading distributions for ad items, seasonal products, and holiday assortments.
- Assist assigned categories by creating, maintaining, reviewing, and analyzing daily, weekly, period, and quarterly reports in MicroStrategy.
- Pull supplier reporting and top-to-top data to support merchandising prior to their supplier meetings.
- Assist the Category Managers in the category review pre-analysis and post-analysis reviews.
- Develop monthly shrink analysis and suggest actions to be taken.
- Maintain inventory balance analysis store by store for assigned categories.
- Maintain all CGO related data.
- Support assigned categories with ad hoc reporting as requests are made regarding categories, items, seasonal buys, distributors, and store operations.
- Responsible for developing a SKU level demand plan by analyzing sales trends, promotional activity, vendor agreements, and presentation minimums.
- Collaboration with distributors to increase service levels.
- Negotiate product costs and vendor funds for goods for sale.
- Negotiate costs on goods not for resale (packaging and supplies).
- Product procurement and allocation.
- Develop in-store inventory level targets by category.
- Responsible for cost accuracy in the database.
- Collaborate with Retail Category Management/Own Brands on the forecast for new items, product transitions, and the phasing out of discontinued products.
- Monitor the sales performance of new products and develop a history that can be used as a guide in future launches.
- Identify excess, inadequate, and/or obsolete inventory positions, providing recommendations to the retail category team.
- Reduce warehouse liability/salvage.
- Responsible for developing a SKU level demand plan by analyzing sales trends, promotional activity, vendor agreements, and presentation minimums.
- Collaboration with distributors to increase service levels.
- Negotiate product costs and vendor funds for goods for sale.
- Negotiate costs on goods not for resale (packaging and supplies).
- Product procurement and allocation.
- Develop in-store inventory level targets by category.
- Responsible for cost accuracy in the database.
- Collaborate with Retail Category Management/Own Brands on the forecast for new items, product transitions, and the phasing out of discontinued products.
- Monitor the sales performance of new products and develop a history that can be used as a guide in future launches.
- Identify excess, inadequate, and/or obsolete inventory positions, providing recommendations to the retail category team.
- Reduce warehouse liability/salvage.
- Consistently provide excellent guest service, which includes:
- Engaging with our guests to learn their wants and needs so that you can help them create their meal solution
- Maintaining knowledge of products and weekly ad items throughout the store and working across departments to assist guests
- Create a hospitable shopping experience by merchandising and stocking our products and specialty items throughout the day, while also making sure nearby guests are assisted
- Gather shopping carts from the parking lot and assist in general housekeeping duties throughout the store
- Present self in a professional manner, including adhering to uniform standards
- Consistently provide excellent guest service, which includes:
- Engaging with our guests to learn their wants and needs so that you can help them create their meal solution
- Maintaining knowledge of products and weekly ad items throughout the store and working across departments to assist guests
- Create a hospitable shopping experience by merchandising and stocking our products and specialty items throughout the day, while also making sure nearby guests are assisted
- Gather shopping carts from the parking lot and assist in general housekeeping duties throughout the store
- Properlyreceivingand stocking of goods that follow The Fresh Market standards
- Slice and prepare a variety of the department’s meat, cheeses, and convenient meal solutions throughout the day, while maintaining quality product levels
- Present self in a professional manner, including adhering to uniform standards
- Consistently provide excellent guest service, which includes:
- Engaging with our guests to learn their wants and needs so that you can help them create their meal solution
- Maintaining knowledge of products and weekly ad items throughout the store and working across departments to assist guests
- Create a hospitable shopping experience by merchandising and stocking our products and specialty items throughout the day, while also making sure nearby guests are assisted
- Gather shopping carts from the parking lot and assist in general housekeeping duties throughout the store
- Properlyreceivingand stocking of goods that follow The Fresh Market standards
- Slice and prepare a variety of the department’s meat, cheeses, and convenient meal solutions throughout the day, while maintaining quality product levels
- Present self in a professional manner, including adhering to uniform standards
- Set product assortment for your category based on brand standards and item performance.
- Develop pricing strategy to achieve department financial goals.
- Define the promotional strategy based on the role of your category.
- Determine merchandising minimums, by SKU, for your category.
- Optimize sales to space through the category review process.
- Define monthly shrink targets by category.
- Evaluate new item performance.
- Maintain schematic integrity with consistent review and updates.
- Review fixture plans for new store openings.
- Define and collaborate with cross-functional partners on marketing strategy to support category programs.
- Monitor trends in new products, consumer behavior, market share, and competition, to inform decisions and initiate and enable innovation.
- Finds and evaluates new vendors and approves new items/vendors for buys.
- Ensure quality standards are upheld.
- Greetguests and proactively assist themin a friendly manner with accurate and timelyservice recommendations and accommodating their special requests
- Managing order guides/ordering deadlines/reducing shrink/damage
- Properly receiving/stocking of goods that follow rotation standards when replenishing product levels
- Direct teams to handle, slice, and prepare specialty produce items, fruit and veggie platters/trays and Convenient Meal Solutions throughout the day, while maintaining quality product levels as indicated within TFM standards.
- Engage, motivate, coach, and train team members “on-the-job” as well as through The Fresh Market’s internal training platform to provide excellent guest service in a safe and secure manner
With the Deli-CMS Manager, you are an ambassador of the department and setting an example for excellence as you assist in the management of all relevant functions and activities.
- Greeting guests and proactively assisting them in a friendly manner with accurate and timely information
- Making recommendations and accommodating requests
- Managing order guides/ordering deadlines/reducing shrink/damage
- Properly receiving/stocking of goods that follow rotation standards when replenishing product levels
- Direct teams to handle, slice and prepare a variety of the department’s meat, cheeses, and Convenient Meal Solutions (CMS) throughout the day
- Engage, motivate, coach, and train team members “on-the-job” as well as through The Fresh Market’s internal training platform to provide excellent guest service in a safe and secure manner
- Consistently provide excellent guest service, which includes:
- Engaging with our guests to learn their wants and needs so that you can help them create their meal solution
- Maintaining knowledge of products and weekly ad items throughout the store and working across departments to assist guests
- Create a hospitable shopping experience by merchandising and stocking our products and specialty items throughout the day, while also making sure nearby guests are assisted
- Gather shopping carts from the parking lot and assist in general housekeeping duties throughout the store
- Present self in a professional manner, including adhering to uniform standards
- Direct and manage a team of Property Managers, Lease Administrators and Real Estate Analysts to achieve departmental objectives. Train, coach, motivate and support the team in the completion of their duties.
- Property Management duties, including the oversight of the maintenance of the self-maintained properties and day-to-day care. This is to ensure that properties are well-maintained and meet relevant local codes (such as for safety).
- Because The Fresh Market has leases across the country, the Director will travel among the various properties to assess overall condition and any specific issues.
- Lease administration, including the tracking of key dates for lease renewals and the identification of locations where outstanding issues require follow-up.
- Review and approve all landlord lease documents that have been entered into the lease administration system
- Review and approve period/year-end financial reporting of prepaid and accrued rent, CAM and taxes, including entries relating to deferred rent and amortization of tenant allowances.
- Review the Lease Reconciliation Specialists audits of annual landlord reconciliations of budget to actual CAM and property tax charges for processing.
- Ensure all rent, CAM and property tax payments to landlords are made in accordance with lease terms.
- Review and approve one-off landlord invoices (primarily utility charges, miscellaneous repairs & maintenance).
- Review and approve gross sales reporting and percentage rent payments to landlords.
- Review and approve all aspects of the monthly landlord rent roll.
- Provide timely reports to Real Estate and Legal departments for upcoming lease extension/renewal deadlines.
- Landlord issue dispute resolution such as additional rent (CAM & property tax) charges.
- Review draft lease agreement sections pertaining to rent, additional rent and sales/percentage rent reporting and identify issues/propose amendments.
- Provide rental information to facilitate preparation of annual budgets to FP&A.
- Collaborate with Legal and Real Estate Departments to process, review and approve all invoices to landlords for tenant allowances including monitoring collections.
- Oversight of subtenant management, including, but not limited to, collection of rents, CAM, insurance & property tax; negotiate renewal rates.
With the Meat and Seafood Manager, you are an ambassador of the department and setting an example for excellence as you assist in the management of all relevant functions and activities.
- Coordinating the ordering of meat items with the Meat and Seafood Manager
- Handle, slice, expertly cut and trim a variety of the department’s prime and premium meat and seafood products, and items for our convenient meal solutions throughout the day, while also managing quality product levels as indicated within TFM standards
- Greeting guests and proactively assisting them in a friendly manner with accurate and timely information
- Making recommendations and accommodating requests
- Managing order guides/ordering deadlines/reducing shrink/damage
- Properly receiving/stocking of goods that follow rotation standards when replenishing product levels
- Engage, motivate, coach, and train team members “on-the-job” as well as through The Fresh Market’s internal training platform to provide excellent guest service in a safe and secure manner