Grocery Associate Job Description
Grocery associate
provides customer service by performing the duties of a clerk in the designated department (grocery or freight).
Grocery Associate Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective grocery associate job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included grocery associate job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Negotiates buying contracts on categories or subsets of categories as determined by the Divisional Merchandise Manager (DMM) or Category Manager (CM)
Help to maximize sales through effective and proper procedures for stocking, rotating, and merchandising product, both on the sales floor and in the back rooms and coolers/freezer
Partner with Operations to build merchandising team quality and inventory reporting
Assists team leader with ordering and inventory management
Process customer transactions quickly, accurately, and efficiently and provide them with fresh products that they have ordered
Recommend products to customers to ensure they get the products they want and need
Collaborate with fellow associates and promote teamwork to help achieve company and store goals
Assist in training department associates on maintaining inventory and stocking products
Assist cashiers with price checks and product replacement duties and by scanning and processing customer orders, processing tender and coupons, and following Front End scanning procedures
Assist with daily, weekly and monthly price changes by updating shelf tags and signs
Grocery Associate Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Grocery Associate
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: WAV
Education for Grocery Associate
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the grocery associate job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and High School Degree in Business, Performance, Sound, Education, Marketing, General Education, Finance, Agribusiness, Science, Pharmacy
Skills for Grocery Associate
Desired skills for grocery associate include:
Regulatory and safety policies and procedures
Equipment and products
Grocery clerk job duties
Products carried in department
Supported department products
Buying
Inventory management
Math
Measures
Merchandising
Desired experience for grocery associate includes:
Plan, organize and supervise the inventory process and maintain an awareness of inventory and stocking conditions
Manually attach price labels with a labeling machine
Assure the department and backrooms are clean and orderly
Working alongside Senior Account management to ensure accurate data input of listings, launch planning, month forecasts, promotional planning ensuring ROI and in line with business unit strategy and that adherence to deadlines is met at all times
Support Account Management with the goal of delivering our customer value proposition for profitable sales growth to agreed targeted levels in line with our go to market category strategy
Deliver an aligned critical path ensuring the retailer’s order portfolio is managed from forecast/sales plan, in-line with the correct customer product mix, product set-up, ordering to ensuring excellence in Omni channel execution
Grocery Associate Examples
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Grocery Associate Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a grocery associate. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for grocery associate
- Help to maximize sales potential through effective and proper procedures for stocking, rotating, and merchandising product, both on the sales floor and in the back rooms and coolers/freezer
- Preparation for internal/external presentations, business reviews varying from day to day meetings to General Manager top to top’s
- Supporting in the promotional planning processes and ensure that the creation of point of sale/digital assets and delivery for shopper instore and online experience
- Research new line products
- Assist in all initial line reviews with prospective vendors
- Maximize inventory replenishment efficiency
- Provides correct information and inputs for advertising and point of sale signage accuracy
- Execution of Clerical price changes
- Verify pricing accuracy for promotional vehicles
- Responsible for execution of promotion & pricing processes (i.e Buyer Work Bench)
Qualifications for grocery associate
- Coordinates ordering, collecting and distributing samples and images for all cross functional needs
- Maintains outdates and links groups based on clearance markdown schedule
- Attention to Detail & Timeline Management
- Stock and rotate department (grocery, general merchandise, dairy and frozen food areas) products to ensure freshness and date control
- Assist with receiving vendor merchandise
- Unload truck deliveries promptly
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Grocery Associate Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of grocery associate. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for grocery associate
- Works closely with Store Experience and merchandise planning to build and review category insights
- Make a difference in a customer’s day and the reason they return to the store
- Develop analytics for our clients to provide insights for our largest grocery accounts
- Liaise internally with partnership leads and in-house partners to guide special projects
- Oversee continued operational success for existing clients by managing implementation of expansion plans (onboarding, development/scaling of support channel and processes)
- Ensures that product is within date, rotated and properly displayed according to the assigned planogram
- Provides exceptional guest service on the sales floor by greeting, acknowledge & reacting to guest needs
- Assists with unloading product from pallets and organizes stock room
- Ensures proper presentation of products on the store shelves and in cases
- Communicates and works collaboratively with Store Director, Grocery Department Manager and all Grocery associates to maintain standards and exceed guest expectations
Qualifications for grocery associate
- Full Time applicants are required to have an open availability Sunday-Saturday, between the primary operating hours of 6am-12am, unless specified for a position/department
- All applications will be screened and only applicants whose qualifications most closely match the job requirements will receive an interview
- If you might be a match for a position, we will contact you with additional information regarding the interview process
- If your application and qualifications do not match the job requirements, you will be notified through email
- Perform assigned tasks such as replenishing merchandise, preparation of products or setting up displays
- Recognize or differentiate between the various types of produce merchandise carried in the store, including differences between varieties of similar classes of products (e.g., apples, lettuces)
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Grocery Associate Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a grocery associate. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for grocery associate
- Contributes to overall cleanliness of the department by sanitizing, organizing, and cleaning work areas, shelving, and sales floor as needed
- Share your knowledge to suggest tastings, food and beverage pairings
- Stock shelves and displays, rotate product
- Maintain the overall appearance of the department and backrooms
- Assists team leader in annual sales and expense projections and budget preparation
- Up to two closing shifts per week and two full weekends per month
Qualifications for grocery associate
- Operate controls and feel objects
- Full Time Overnight applicants are required to have an open availability Sunday-Saturday, between the hours of 8pm – 8am, unless specified for a position/department
- The Tysons Corner store will be open 6am – 12 am, 7 days a week
- Experience in food production
- Interest in learning new skills and contributing to many different processes within the store or the kitchen
- Experience in food production for Kitchen Associate
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Grocery Associate Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of grocery associate. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for grocery associate
- Must have reliable transportation to inventory sites
- Must have a reliable means of communication
- 4 – 8 hours on average (we commit to being on site until job completion)
- This is a physical role which requires stepping up on step stools or ladders, kneeling, standing, and stooping down to count merchandise from top shelves to bottom shelves
Qualifications for grocery associate
- Experience in strategy and operations or consulting
- You have proficiency in analytics and visualization tools, and experience creating data/reporting (e.g., Chartio, Mode, or Tableau), SQL, Excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets)/Sheets
- The Wake Forest store will be open 6am – 12 am, 7 days a week
- Standing desks and/or other ergonomic accommodation is available upon request
- Regular use of mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets
- Must be a top-level grocery counter with previous experience working for another inventory service