Central Butcher Buyer

• Hours: Full-time
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• Industry: Food and Beverage
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Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

DATA ACCURACY:
- Control the accuracy of all of your departments inventory to meet and exceed key company metrics
- Perform regular department audits and oversee product compliance (price tag/signage accuracy, farming/growing/fishing practices and weights & measures regulations)
- Adhere to guidelines for receiving, inventory management, and ordering to ensure daily accuracy of data
- Oversee the collection and accuracy of your departments EOM inventory for all locations
- Manage accurate waste reporting within your department following company standards
- Manage multiple establishments inventory and physical workflows

VENDOR RELATIONS:
- Foster a healthy and supportive relationship with core vendors
- Continuously strive for the best pricing to improve gross margin and remain competitive
- Collaborate with your reps to bring in new and sustainable products following seasonality
- Set up monthly promotions to highlight seasonal products and to help remain competitive with other everyday grocery stores

MERCHANDISING:
- Ensure all locations’ merchandised displays are designed and set up according to our aesthetic and company brand guidelines
- Maximizes sales potential through effective and proper procedures for prepping, storing, rotating, stocking, and merchandising products
- Ensure products are routinely FIFOd and that employees are adhering to local food handling regulations as it relates to temperature control, dating, and storage per you departments
- Collaborate with the Buying & Merchandising Manager to constantly iterate and improve systems to allow for best in class receiving workflows
- Oversee department checklists and protocols on a daily basis
- Always seek to improve the customer’s experience on the floor (signage, rearranging product sets, featured products, items of the month, etc)
- Participate in quarterly comp shopping visits with the Buying & Merchandising Manager
- Monitoring displays and spot checking for spoilage

BUYING:
- Buying for multiple locations based on inventory, customer requests, and location specific product sets and aesthetics
- Source authentic, thoughtful, sustainable and ethically produced/sourced products that are within our brand
- Monthly checks of movement reports to identify slow vs fast movers
- Proactively buying holiday products before the holiday seasons
- Constantly focus on increasing the authenticity of the product and vendor selection
- Responsible for category management within your departments

ACCOUNTING / REPORTING:
- Daily review of department financials
- Weekly review of actual vs. goal metrics (revenue, gross margin, inventory accuracy, waste)
- Ensuring every vendor delivery has an invoice and PO to match

TEAM MANAGEMENT:
- Run weekly meetings with your team to go over numbers, any concerns, building a cohesive team and a great company culture
- Develop training guides for assistant buyers and department teams
- Product management in Revel
- PO creation
- Inventory management (Stocktakes, Rolling, Etc.)
- Buying guidelines
- On-boarding guides

COMPETENCIES:
- Excellent leadership skills
- Friendly, team-player
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent customer service
- Good work ethic
- High standard of cleanliness
- Must be at least 18 years or older

REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
- Minimum 2 years’ supervisory experience
- Experience with food preparation, service, and safety
- Experience with meat-cutting and butchery

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
- Must be able to lift 25 lbs
- Must be able to spend 6-8 hours per day on your feet
- Stooping, bending, lifting, standing for long periods of time, stretching, twisting, reaching, repetitive stocking motions, repetitive food prep motions.
- Must be able to lift and carry 50 lb cases of meat or other food products repeatedly.
- Handling of refrigerated product in a cold environment for extended periods of time.

-Experience with grocery retail

$25-28/hour + tips

Medical insurance, with employer contribution of up to 100%; Dental insurance, with 70% employer contribution; Vision insurance, with 50% employer contribution; Paid sick leave; Paid vacation - up to 2 weeks per year; Paid volunteer days; Pre-tax 401k savings account; Storewide employee discount of 20%; Daily staff meal; Pre-tax commuter benefits savings account; Regular review & raise cycles; Professional development and mentorship program

full-time

Luke’s Local requires all new hires to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. All new hires will be required to be vaccinated [1st dose] prior to their first day of scheduled work OR must request an accommodation under medical or religious exemptions.