Perishable Operation Manager Restaurant Depot Orange

Responsible for receiving product and ensures that aisles/freezers and refrigerators are stocked, labeled, clean and delivered product is packed out, and proper customer service is provided. Essential functions: - Ensuring proper customer service and working to develop relationships with large customers. - Supervising Assistant Deli Manager, Deli Supervisors and Stockers to assure that shelves are stocked and merchandise is rotated. - Developing schedules, monitoring performance, and recommending the proper discipline as appropriate. - Training employees in job responsibilities and safe operating procedures - Interviews candidates and recommends for hires. - Disciplines employees when necessary and recommends terminations. - Ensuring that employees are performing the proper inspections to meet HACCP regulations as well as conducting periodic HACCP audits. - Reviewing inventory for product rotation on a daily basis to prevent shrinkage and damages. - Ensuring that shelf pricing is correct and reflects the most recent pricing and market conditions. - Supervising the receiving of all deli products and ensuring that the proper paperwork is completed. - Maintaining accurate computer inventory levels by having physical inventories performed on a regular basis and adjustments made. - Maintaining refrigerated equipment and making sure maintenance contracts and schedules are followed. - Supervising the ordering of deli products from vendors on a regular basis to assure we have competitive pricing and minimal shrink due to spoilage and not have too much inventory on hand. - Make sure all the employees in the department can work the equipment such as Toledo scale and Dennison label machine. - Coordinating that the pallets stored in the racks have the proper block and date tags. - Following program to maintain the cleanliness of the area by a regular maintenance schedule of scrubbing, and pulling out pallets and cleaning underneath. - Ensuring that excess inventory not slotted on floor is stacked in overhead racks in close proximity to where it is sold or stored in freezers/refrigerators. - Assuring that trash is removed from floor and properly handled. - Make sure that low stock/out of stock information is communicated to the Inventory Controller after carefully checking the system and rack for product. - Maintaining that all signage is correct and that the flyers prices are reflected on the product. - Coordinating proper merchandising of aisles (logical adjacencies, proper holding power, space allocation) and creatively merchandising and setting up impulse areas for merchandising. - Performing additional duties, responsibilities, and projects as assigned. - Performing weekly self audits on the perishable department.