Produce Manager - Quick Hire!

Sprouts Farmers Market is a rapidly growing grocery retailer known for its commitment to providing high-quality, fresh, and natural food options to customers. With a unique neighborhood grocery store concept, Sprouts operates in a fun and friendly old-fashioned farmer's market setting, offering farm fresh produce, natural meats, scoop-your-own bulk goods, and much more. Sprouts prides itself on empowering its teams and cultivating a culture focused on healthy living, extraordinary customer service, and community engagement. As a leader in the grocery retail industry, Sprouts is dedicated to supporting its employees through comprehensive benefits, career growth opportunities, and a dynamic work environment that adapts to evolving business needs. The company fosters an inclusive workplace and adheres to fair hiring practices, ensuring equal opportunity for all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories as per Fair Chance in Hiring regulations. The Produce Manager role at Sprouts Farmers Market is a key leadership position responsible for overseeing the sales and operational activities within the Produce Department. This full-time role requires managing the department's quality control, merchandising, cleanliness, organization, and inventory management to ensure a consistent and exceptional fresh produce experience for customers. The Produce Manager leads a team of associates by providing coaching, feedback, and development opportunities, running performance reviews, and making hiring, promotion, and transfer decisions in collaboration with store leadership. This position demands confident independent judgment in addressing team member concerns and performance management, including corrective actions when necessary. Additionally, the Produce Manager ensures maximum productivity by creating and adjusting staffing schedules and communicates standards, policy changes, and product knowledge to the team. Acting as a leader who inspires collaboration, the Produce Manager strives to deliver the finest quality produce, highest level of customer service, and an outstanding shopping experience. This role may also involve serving as a Key Carrier or acting Manager on Duty as needed, highlighting the trust and responsibility vested in this position. The role is suited for individuals passionate about fresh food, customer service, and leadership within a fast-paced, friendly, and team-oriented environment. It offers an hourly wage range of $21.40 to $34.25, determined by experience and qualifications. Sprouts supports its employees with a wide range of benefits including competitive pay, sick leave, vacation accrual, flexible scheduling, employee assistance programs, 401(k) retirement plans with company match, and various insurance coverages. The company also offers innovative solutions like DailyPay, enabling employees to access their earned wages daily. This position requires flexibility to work varied schedules including nights, weekends, and holidays, physical ability to manage produce department tasks safely and efficiently, and ongoing commitment to health and safety regulations. Sprouts Farmers Market is an excellent place to grow a career in healthy living and fresh food retail.

• Be at least 18 years of age
• 1-3 years of experience working in grocery retail with management experience in produce
• Basic knowledge of math, weights and measures
• Good communication skills
• Ability to take direction and participate in a team environment
• Perform general housekeeping and sanitize work area
• Adhere to all safety, health, and Weights and Measures regulations
• Ability to stand, walk, bend, and climb throughout the work day
• Ability to lift, stack, and maneuver heavy objects weighing up to 50 lbs safely
• Ability to use a pallet jack to move pallets requiring force up to 85 pounds
• Ability to maneuver six wheel carts with force up to 35 lbs
• Ability to walk a total of up to 5 miles in an 8 hour shift
• Achieve and maintain Food Handlers permit
• Ability to work flexible schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays
• Possess working knowledge of personnel reports, margin reports, weekly sales, and financial goals
• Show outgoing and friendly behavior and a positive attitude