Customer Service Mgr

Customer Service Manager

Fresco y Mas is committed to fostering a work environment where all associates can be authentic, feel valued, while reaching their full potential.

Job Purpose

Job Summary

Creates an outstanding customer experience while directing and supervising all functions, duties and activities of the front end. Ensures that all current customer service, cash control, labor control, expense and supply controls, asset protection, maintenance, physical safety, food safety, associate and customer engagement policies are being followed. This role will create a shopping and working environment that exemplifies the company's commitment to and vision of service, quality and neighborhood partnerships. This position will create a strong company bench by identifying and developing individuals' skills and abilities for future advancement. This role is responsible for hiring and training execution in the store. This is a working manager position that requires a balance of physical labor, delegation, team building and leadership, planning, and administrative work.

Key Performance Indicators

Overall Customer Satisfaction OSAT (Service)

Gauges the customer experience in each respective area of the business. Focus on Assortment, Cleanliness, Freshness, Staff Friendliness and Stock Availability.

Produce Scanning

Ensures the customers are correctly charged, the department is replenished properly and decreases the risk of shrink.

Items per Bag

Gauges the potential over spending of bags when not meeting the company goal.

Essential Responsibilities

Store Leadership

Leads and empowers teams to deliver a great shopping experience for our customers in alignment with the company's vision, goals, expectations, and policies while maintaining open communication channels for ideas, suggestions, and feedback. Values diversity and supports an inclusive environment by embracing the backgrounds and experiences of the team. Demonstrates and role models exceptional customer service exceeding customer expectations; ensures associates greet, assist, provide efficient service and thank customers in a prompt, courteous, friendly, and business-like manner in order to promote the company image as a service-oriented operation. Establishes and maintains a professional working relationship with customers, associates, schools, vendors, suppliers, and regulatory agencies.

Fiscal Leadership

Assists in managing the fiscal budget, in-stock, inventory, shrink, expenses including labor and supply management and cash control with a high level of integrity, urgency and responsibility within the best interests of the organization. Maximizes sales and profits by ensuring effective display and sales techniques, efficient ordering, scheduling and work planning. Analyzes P&L for business opportunities. Determines areas for improvement and communicates finds and plans of action with store manager.

Department Leadership

Participates actively as a coordinated, motivated management team. Trains and coaches team on all KPIs, customer service, product knowledge, suggestive selling, safety and sanitation. Uses initiative, ingenuity, creativity, and good judgment to act on opportunities and issues as they occur within the store location. Ensures all policies, programs and directives are communicated and executed in a positive and timely manner. Ensures store's operations are consistent with all aspects of federal, state, and the company's health, safety, and sanitation codes.

Associate Leadership

Responsible and accountable for the hiring and training execution in the store. Ensures that recruiting, interviewing and hiring the best-qualified applicants through pro-active and consistent recruitment techniques, within company established compensation guidelines. Responsible and accountable for ensuring new associates receive a proper on-boarding and completes new hire training as outlined by training best practices by following up with leaders and new hires. Exercises ability to coach, hold associates accountable, separate associates when necessary or effectively recommend the same. Ensures adherence to all state and federal employment laws and company policies and procedures.

Safety and Compliance

Adheres to all regulatory compliance requirements pertaining to food safety, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) & Country of Origin Labeling (COOL), and Department of Agriculture (DOA). Executes all product recalls and withdrawals in a timely manner while ensuring all items are secured and removed from customer access. Cultivates a culture of safety within the store. Ensures self and all associates are working safely and have received necessary safety training. Ensures Hazardous Assessments are posted for associate reference and that Personal Protective Equipment is available and utilized by all associates executing tasks within the department, as required. Ensures equipment is in good repair; reports and assists with remediation (ex. lock out/tag out of equipment) of safety hazards within the department.

Disclaimer

Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required Education

Course of Study

High School Diploma or Equivalent

Preferred Education

Course of Study

Bachelor's Degree

Business or related field

Language(s) Required

Language(s) Preferred

English

English and Spanish

Relevant Experience

Supervisory Experience

3 - 6 yrs minimum

1 - 5 yrs minimum

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required

Authorization to work in the United States or the ability to obtain the same.

Successful completion of pre-employment drug testing and background check.

Proficient with computer applications used in effectively operating the department.

Strong customer service skills.

Exceptional interpersonal, motivational and communication skills.

Possession of Food Safety Certification or the ability to obtain same within 180 days of placement.

High standard of integrity and reliability.

Environmental Factors

Retail - Location Management: Physical Demands: While performing the essential functions of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand or walk on various types of flooring, utilize manual dexterity, talk, see, hear, smell and perform repetitive movements with both hands and/or both feet. The employee is frequently required to reach at waist level or overhead, carry, push, or lift various loads up to the required weights listed. The employee is occasionally required to sit, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch and climb up to 30 ft. Working Conditions: While performing the essential functions of this position, the employee may be exposed to working in indoor, outdoor, cold, freezing, heated, and wet/humid working conditions. Safety Risk Factors: The employee is frequently required to twist back and/or neck, walk on a slippery or cluttered floor surface, work with hazardous equipment and be exposed to sharp objects. The employee is occasionally required to be exposed to loud noise, skin irritants, nuisance dust, fumes and sprays, hazardous cleaning solutions and other toxins. Overall Required Equipment: cleaning supplies and equipment, general office equipment, register, pricing gun, scales, scanner, various material handling equipment, such as racks, carts, pallet jacks, shopping carts, Department Specific Required Equipment: baler/compactor, barista equipment and mixers, floral equipment including helium tank, cutting implements, heat shrink dryer general hardware tools such as a ladder, pliers, wire cutters, general kitchen tools such as utensils, thermometer, Ice machine, shovel, powered cutting equipment, such as a slicers, saws, grinders, produce equipment including watering machine, pineapple corer, various knives, various ovens, stoves, rotisserie, fryers, steamers, proofer, wrapping equipment, Automatic meat wrapper, box cutter, lobster tanks Personal Protective Equipment: Goggles, Gloves, Cutting Gloves, Fryer Gloves, Oven Gloves, Back Brace Pulling Requirement: 250 lbs. Lifting Requirement: 70 lbs.

Travel Percent

Overnight

Occasional

No

Shift(s)

Varied shifts, to include morning, afternoon, evening and closing shifts. Includes a minimum of one (1) closing shift each week