Assistant Meat Manager

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Customer Service & Sales
• Provide friendly, professional, and knowledgeable customer service.
• Assist customers with product selection, preparation questions, and special requests.
• Ensure service cases and displays are full, fresh, clean, and visually appealing.
• Promote featured items, seasonal products, and department specials.
• Address customer concerns and escalate issues when appropriate.
• Meat Department Operations
• Assist with daily preparation, cutting, wrapping, packaging, labeling, and merchandising of meat products.
• Maintain department standards for product quality, freshness, presentation, and availability.
• Monitor service cases, self-service cases, coolers, freezers, and backroom inventory.
• Ensure proper product rotation and remove outdated or damaged merchandise.
• Assist with opening and closing procedures and overall department readiness.
• Food Safety, Sanitation & Compliance
• Follow established food safety, sanitation, and workplace safety requirements.
• Maintain clean and sanitary cutting areas, preparation surfaces, equipment, coolers, freezers, and display cases.
• Ensure products are properly stored, labeled, dated, and rotated.
• Monitor appropriate product and storage temperatures.
• Ensure knives, slicers, saws, grinders, wrapping equipment, and other department tools are used safely and properly.
• Inventory & Shrink Control
• Assist with ordering, receiving, stocking, and rotating meat products and supplies.
• Maintain appropriate inventory levels based on sales and production needs.
• Help control shrink through proper ordering, production, rotation, and product handling.
• Verify incoming deliveries for accuracy, quality, and condition.
• Assist with department inventory counts and other inventory-control procedures.
• Team Leadership & Training
• Assist with assigning daily responsibilities and providing direction to Meat Department associates.
• Train associates on customer service, product handling, food safety, sanitation, equipment safety, and department procedures.
• Monitor workflow and completion of assigned responsibilities.
• Provide coaching and direction when operational or service opportunities are identified.
• Support cross-training and associate development to maintain appropriate department coverage.
• Administrative & Department Support
• Assist the Meat Manager with daily department planning and execution.
• Complete and maintain required department records and documentation.
• Communicate product, inventory, staffing, equipment, and operational concerns to department and store leadership.
• Support department merchandising, promotional changes, and price integrity.
• Assist with monitoring department sales, labor, shrink, and productivity.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• We also provide a variety of benefits including:
• Competitive wages paid weekly
• · Access to up to 50% of your earned wages before payday, via our partnership with Stream
• Associate discounts
• Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates (Medical, Dental, 401k and more!)
• Time off (vacation, holidays, sick pay). For eligibility requirements please visit myACI Benefits
• Leaders invested in your training, career growth and development
• An inclusive work environment with talented colleagues who reflect the communities we serve
• Our Values – Click below to view video: ACI Values
• A copy of the full job description can be made available to you.