Backroom Manager

Backroom Manager

At Hy-Vee, our people are our strength. We promise "a helpful smile in every aisle" and those smiles can only come from a workforce that is fully engaged and committed to supporting our customers and each other. Provides prompt, efficient and friendly customer service. Receives product, verifies invoices, delivers product to the appropriate department in a prompt, efficient, friendly and safe manner.

Core Competencies : Partnerships, Growth mindset, Results oriented, Customer focused, Professionalism

Reporting Relations : Accountable and reports to District Store Director, Store Manager, Assistant Manager of Store Operations, Perishables, and Health Wellness Home, Service Managers.

Positions that report to you : None

Primary Duties and Responsibilities :

• Provides prompt, efficient and friendly customer service by exhibiting caring, concern and patience in all customer interactions and treating customers as the most important people in the store.
• Smiles and greets customers in a friendly manner, whether the encounter takes place in the employee's designated department or elsewhere in the store.
• Makes an effort to learn customers' names and to address them by name whenever possible.
• Assists customers by escorting them to the products they are looking for, securing products that are out of reach, loading or unloading heavy items, making note of and passing along customer suggestions or requests, and performing other tasks in every way possible to enhance the shopping experience.
• Answers the telephone promptly and provides friendly, helpful service to customers who call.
• Works with co-workers as a team to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant work environment.
• Works with company's subsidiaries to receive product.
• Ensures receipts and takes to accounting in a timely manner.
• Plans, prepares, and adjusts work schedules and assigns employees to specific duties and follows up to ensure duties are properly completed in a timely manner.
• Unloads products from truck and ensures placement in a non-intrusive area.
• Uses forklifts to unload trucks and place in backroom.
• Delivers items to the appropriate department.
• Checks invoices for accuracy and signs vendor paper work.
• Receives all vendor orders.
• Protects cold food chain and integrity of product.
• Coordinates the receipt and lock up of controlled items, e.g. (liquor, cigarettes, pharmacy inventory).
• Works with returned items, writes up items with drivers, ensures the signed receipts are returned to the accounting office in a timely manner.
• Maintains area for sale items to ensure convenience for the management team (displays, etc.)
• Maintains a clean and orderly backroom.
• Ensures cardboard and trash areas are clean daily.
• Aware of store's needs, specifically in the grocery department.
• Keep training certifications current, i.e. forklift certifications.
• Works with the internal customers in a timely and efficient manner.
• Works in a safe and efficient manner to reduce product damage and spoilage.
• Works for the store department to do small equipment repairs.
• Maintains cleanliness outside of store to the dock area, and behind the store.
• Maintains strict adherence to department and company guidelines related to personal hygiene and dress.
• Adheres to company policies and individual store guidelines.
• Reports to work when scheduled and on time.

Secondary Duties and Responsibilities :

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Worker Characteristics :

Education and Experience :

Supervisory Responsibilities (Direct Reports) : Responsible for managing the backroom duties and employees.

Physical Requirements :

Working Conditions : This position is continually exposed to dirt. There is frequent exposure to temperature extremes, dampness, equipment movement hazards and cleaning chemicals / solvents.

Equipment Used to Perform Job : Electric pallet jack, hand pallet jack, RPM, intercom system, forklift, telephone, and two-wheeler.

Contacts : Has daily contact with internal customers, suppliers / vendors, and the general public.

The anticipated hourly starting wage for this position is $18.00 to $22.50 depending on experience. For information on company benefits visit Benefits | Hy-Vee.

Are you ready to smile, apply today. Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a pre employment drug screen.