Deli Manager

• →Responsible for ensuring proper receiving, unloading, storage, and rotation of merchandise and building of displays.
• →Ensure all products to be rotated, including refrigerated, non-refrigerated, and freezer items.
• →Utilize fryers, ovens, and stoves to prepare various hot food items with quality standards.
• →Accurately cut, slice, weigh, and package deli products in alignment with company standards, quality expectations, and customer needs.
• →Accurately package hot food items based on customer requests, ensuring proper portioning and presentation.
• →Ensure department shelving and display units are maintained, cleaned, and organized.
• →Perform and manage all orders for the department and responsibly manage inventory levels.
• →Conduct an inventory of the department monthly. 
• →Manage inventory, pricing, and sales strategies to ensure the department meets or exceeds targeted profit margins.
• →Implement effective merchandising strategies to optimize product presentation while actively monitoring and reducing inventory shrinkage.
• →Maintain proper labeling of all department items, including proper listing of ingredients and Company code/date policies.
• →Observe temperatures of coolers, cases, and freezers and report failures to management promptly.
• →Follow and always help instill food safety practices and procedures.
• →Ensure compliance with established procedures, practices, sales, safety, and security according to A.G. Supermarkets, Inc. policies.
• →Strictly adhere to all safety, health, weight, and measure regulations.
• →Responsible for ensuring clean equipment, tables, floors, grinders, coolers, and production areas as required to exceed Food Safety requirements.
• →Recruit, hire, train, and discipline associates. employees.
• →Formulate a weekly schedule, including breaks and lunches for employees.
• →Perform annual reviews on employees within your department.
• →Visit competitor establishments periodically to gather insights on product offerings, pricing strategies, and merchandising ideas to inform and enhance departmental operations.
• →Ensure equipment is working correctly, including safety features, and report any safety hazards immediately
• →Perform other duties as assigned or required.

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Demonstrate strong organizational skills to prioritize tasks, manage multiple responsibilities, and maintain focus in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficient in computer systems including Microsoft Office for inventory management, sales tracking, and reporting, with strong math skills to forecast sales, and analyze P&L.
• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality when handling sensitive information.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with customers, employees, and management.
• Dedicated to providing exceptional customer service through prompt issue resolution and customer focused approach.

• ServSafe Certified or equivalent preferred.
• At least 1 year of experience in Deli or related fields preferred.

• Deli Personnel

Work is performed in a typical retail environment, requiring:

• Frequent lifting, pushing, carrying, and pulling of weights between 20–40 lbs., with occasional lifting over 40 lbs.
• Standing for extended periods (90% of the time) and walking (10%).
• Frequent kneeling, bending, and reaching above and below waist level.
• Hard tile/cement flooring with anti-fatigue mats.
• Working in various temperature-controlled environments, including:
• Freezers (extreme cold)
• Areas near ovens (extreme heat)
• Receiving areas with occasional humidity or wet flooring
• Required: Slip-resistant footwear, hair nets or hats, various cleaning supplies, and cutting gloves.
• Machines, Tools, and Equipment used: slicers, knives, wrappers, fryers, dishwashers, ovens, steamers, other baking utensils, and scales.

This job description does not include a complete listing of all the duties and functions of the position. Management reserves the right to assign other duties or projects as necessary.