Regional Trainer Bakery/Deli - Full-time / Part-time

The Regional Bakery & Deli Trainer is responsible for overseeing, training and assisting the Bakery and Deli departments for the locations of the given region. This position uses Company policies, procedures and goals to ensure the departments are running efficiently; working closely with department managers ensuring effective operations and utilization of our company culture in daily tasks. The Regional Bakery & Deli Trainer reports directly to the Regional Director.

Essential Functions

• Maximize the financial performance of the departments in the region in a manner that maximizes the financial performance of the stores and company for the future as well as today
• Ensures the departments consistently and efficiently achieve company and department requirements for merchandising, store conditions, and customer service
• Assists Store Manager in ensuring department managers embrace the requirements of their job, do their job correctly with high skill, and achieve their objectives efficiently and effectively on their own initiative
• Assists in developing managers and staff that will be qualified candidates for promotion
• Embraces the company values and creates an excellent example for team members
• Understand corporate and department merchandising plans, expectations and timetables
• Inspects store conditions, customer service performance, in-store merchandising, compliance to required scheduling and operating procedures and employee behavior to identify, on a timely basis, deficiencies against standards and unexploited opportunities
• Teams with the Store Manager to initiate action with appropriate urgency that corrects deficiencies and exploits opportunities. Corrects both the immediate deficiency and what caused the deficiency
• Inspects sales reports, wage reports, P&L reports, and other financial reports in order to identify deficiencies. Verifies that the store director and department managers have identified the same deficiencies and have initiated appropriate, timely action that will bring the deficiencies back within standard
• Assists the Store Manager in training and supervision of Dept Managers to ensure they know, understand and perform their duties correctly, with proper behavior
• Influences the selection, promotion, demotion or termination of Dept Managers in their region
• Ensures department marketing and display plan is executed appropriately
• Participates in setting financial objectives for the department in their region
• Communicates effectively with the Home Office and the Regional Director of Operations to facilitate the achievement of objectives for the store departments in their region

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Bachelor Degree in Business or a related field preferred; or an acceptable combination of education and experience
• 3 years of previous management experience required; experience in retail grocery preferred
• Excellent leadership, verbal and written communication skills with an ability to champion new ideas
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office preferred
• Must be able to work flexible hours, including weekends, evenings and holidays

Physical Requirements

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this position or that a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Travel to/from meetings and to various locations

• Ability to work varied hours/days as business dictates
• Requires vertically transferring weights up to 10 lbs., from 7” to 64” for up to 10 hours
• Requires vertically/horizontally transferring items up to 40 lbs., from 5” to 36”, for a distance up to 36 feet for up to 10 hours without mechanical assistance
• Will use utility cart to move product up to 20 lbs., with a force up to 10 lbs., for a distance up to 100 feet for up to 10 hours
• Will horizontally transfer racks of product requiring a force up to 10 lbs., for a distance up to 25 feet for up to 25 hours
• Must use grocery cart to move product up to 10 lbs., with a force up to 5 lbs., a distance up to 150 feet, for up to 1 hour
• Moving vendor racks up to 25 lbs., requiring a force up to 12 lbs., for a distance up to 10 feet for up to 5 hours is required
• Bilateral coupling forces up to 10 lbs. for up to 20 hours are a must
• Will use a 2 step stool requiring up to 10 steps an hour per 8 hours
• Will be required to stand for up to 3 hours continuously, for a total of 8 hours per shift
• Will work inside controlled temperatures; working near ovens and in freezers/coolers
• Walking up to 1 mile per 8 hours

This job may have specific physical demands including, but not limited to, the following:  ability to lift up to 75 lbs.; ability to operate machinery with moving mechanical parts; and ability to bend, reach, kneel, squat, stand for a long period of time and push/pull heavy loads.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. 

Qualified candidates will be contacted.  To learn more about all of the benefits of working at Sprouts and how you can become part of our growing team, apply on-line at .  Sprouts Farmers Market is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

2014

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and requirements. Sprouts’ management reserves the right to amend and change duties, responsibilities, and requirements to meet business and organizational needs as necessary.