Grocery Lead Team Member

As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!

Meijer Rewards

Weekly pay

Scheduling flexibility

Paid parental leave

Paid education assistance

Team member discount

Development programs for advancement and career growth

Please review the job profile below and apply today!

Provides direction related to operations, processes, and conditions of their area. Plans, guides, and empowers team members in the day-to-day operation of the department. Sets example for those in their department by modeling exceptional customer experience. Possesses the ability to help achieve department goals and influence their peers to create a continued winning strategy.

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What you’ll be doing:

Engaging peers to provide the best possible shopping experience for our customers including an exceptional checkout experience.

Communicating with team members and assigning daily work tasks.

Mentoring and coaching other team members to ensure customer service and sales goals are exceeded and the area is maintained to Meijer standards and team members have completed required trainings.

Supports training new team members/cross-training high potential talent, providing peer coaching on job responsibilities/standards to positively impact team member productivity.

Working with leadership on department schedule writing to focus on team member engagement, improving customer service, store sales and profitability.

Ensuring freshness of products by closely monitoring execution of rotation and dating policies.

Guiding the team in compliance with food safety standards and regulations and working in a safe manner aligning to 200% accountability.

Leading team members to ensure ordering, receiving, stocking, pricing, and product display are completed, where applicable.

Actively creating an environment that supports the Meijer culture, including valuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Operating a register and cash handling when needed.

Operating powered equipment, where applicable.

Participating in period end inventories, where applicable, to help achieve goals.

May be required to act in Lead capacity in other departments throughout the store

This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position. You may perform other duties as assigned or required.

What You Bring with You (Qualifications):

Passion for customer service with total engagement that conveys approachability to customers and fellow team members.

Initiates interactions with customers and peers.

Excellent verbal and written communication

Retail or other customer service experience preferred

Creative thinking skills

Ability to influence others

Ability to quickly build rapport and gain customer confidence to create repeat business

Ability to lift, carry, push, pull, bend and twist while handling product

Experience executing plans

Positive influence to create a strong team environment.

A commitment to fostering an inclusive environment where all team members and vendors feel valued and supported.

We opened our doors more than 85 years ago with the goal of helping people provide for themselves and their family. Today we’re a multi-billion dollar retailer with more than 70,000 employees across six states. Our Midwest geography includes corporate offices in Grand Rapids, Michigan, plus manufacturing facilities, distribution centers and over 240 stores across Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin.

Meijer is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are committed to treating all persons with dignity and respect. Meijers policy is to not discriminate because of any applicant or team members race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, age, physical or mental disability, uniformed service or veteran status, or any other lawfully-protected classification. If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of your application, please click here to submit your request . Submissions that are not seeking help to complete the application due to a disability will not be responded to.