Produce Associate

Summary: Sam's Club is a retail membership warehouse club that offers quality and fresh food at low costs. As a Produce Associate, you will ensure the quality, cleanliness, and availability of produce while providing exceptional customer service to enhance the member's shopping experience. Responsibilities: - Maintaining a positive attitude by smiling, greeting and thanking members - Providing exceptional customer service to members across the club as needed, answering any questions they may have - Maintaining a clean, neat, and member-ready area - Receiving & stocking merchandise in an organized manner - Maintaining inventory so that there is no out of stock and over-stock products - Maintains up-to-date knowledge of the products; collaborating with cross functional teams and helping educate other associates on tools, tasks, and resources; communicating effectively and developing interpersonal skills for providing customer service; and being flexible to the needs of the business to work in other areas, tracking goods, maintaining in-stock levels, and controlling shrinkage in a timely manner - Understands the processes and specifications related to quality of various types of produce merchandise (for example, taste, preparation method or use, seasonality); preparing (trim, crisp, package, scale) products according to established standards; maintaining product safety and following company sanitation guidelines; and adhering to applicable laws, regulations, and company policies related to produce quality - Leverages digital tools to drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement; utilizing hand held technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, training, and product quality with the member in mind; adapting to new tools and encouraging others to use them - Drives the performance of the area; utilizing digital tools; using perpetual inventory management techniques to stock and rotate department products; ensuring quality and date control standards; eliminating waste; guiding peers and providing attention to customer needs; assisting customers according to company policies and procedures - Being an advocate for the department and the club by valuing the member's experience in meat area and modeling high quality service and products; executing the basics at highest possible level of quality; and exhibiting energy, commitment, and passion for the work - Complies with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity by implementing related action plans; using the Open Door Policy; and applying these in executing business processes and practices - Completes work assignments and priorities by using policies, data, and resources; collaborating with managers, co-workers, customers, and other business partners; identifying priorities, deadlines, and expectations; carrying out tasks; communicating progress and information; determining and recommending ways to address improvement opportunities; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback Required Qualifications: - Must be 18 years of age or older - I acknowledge that the position for which I am applying requires me to successfully complete all job required trainings and assessments within a prescribed time period if I receive the position Required Skills: Produce Quality, Inventory Management, Sanitation Guidelines Compliance, Digital Tools Usage, Perpetual Inventory Management, Customer Service Benefits: Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage, Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance, Paid time off benefits include PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting., Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more., Live Better U is a company paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities.