Food and Beverage Coordinator - St. Louis

• Knowledge of guest service fundamentals and experience building a guest-centricculture in food and beverage areas
• Knowledge of food and beverage business fundamentals: department sales trends,freshness and quality, inventory management, guest shopping patterns, pricing andpromotions strategies
• Knowledge of the competition; leveraging guest insights to influence store leadershipand food teams to drive business initiatives
• Experience influencing in-store food and beverage departments quarterly workload tosupport business priorities and deliver on sales goals
• Ability to assess daily business performance and provide store leaders guidance to driveefficiencies in food and beverage departments through in-store walks

​As a Food & Beverage Coordinator, you are responsible for the daily businessperformance of your respective area in your market. These responsibilities include:

• Drive your business to grow sales
• Execute food operations strategy in assigned stores.
• Partner with field and store leadership, Store Operations, Merchandising, and otherstakeholder groups to champion projects to grow profitable food sales.
• Evaluate, educate, and improve on store conditions, guest experience, operationalefficiency, waste reduction, and profitable sales.
• Leverage reporting to evaluate performance in sales, markdowns, inventory productivity,food safety, and other measures.
• Maintain industry knowledge and market trends by benchmarking competitor pricing,promotions, merchandising practices, and processes.
• Utilize innovation, critical thinking, communication, and store partnership to understandand influence food and beverage strategy and process evolution.
• Represent stores and food operations in food localization, including new items, holidaymerchandising, and competitor merchandising benchmarking.

​Cultivate a guest-centric salesforce to drive sales and efficiency

• Lead and create a service culture utilizing tools and routines that model, train, and coachbehavioral expectations to deliver the service standard.
• Drive execution through detailed training and education of store leadership teamsand food and beverage experts, including: ordering and managing inventory andsupplies, merchandising, freshness, food safety, sampling, and other store controlledprocesses.
• Drive guest service and profitable sales by assisting stores with guest-centric schedulingand training.
• Drive and deliver a fresh and safe experience through reinforcing food safety processes,training teams to integrate food safety, product rotation, cleaning and sanitation, andfreshness into everyday processes.
• Partner with Stores and DSD Vendors to drive DSD sales through on-shelfavailability and operational efficiency.
• Maintain compliance with policies and procedures defined by all regulatory agencies.
• Challenge teams to develop staffing and contingency plans that ensure coverage andmaintain production and service capabilities.
• Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety, and compliance. Lead team to work inthe same way and hold others accountable to this commitment.All other duties based on business needs.

​The good news is that we have some amazing training that will help teach you everythingyou need to know to be a Food & Beverage Coordinator .But there are a few skills youshould have from the get-go:

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience
• 3+ years preferred food and beverage experience
• Proven execution skills and ability to drive change
• Operate in an ambiguous and rapidly changing work environment
• Quickly adapt to changing priorities and tasks
• Project and process management/ownership experience
• Work in high intensity situations with composure and ease
• Solution-based mindset with desire to uncover business gaps and solve problems
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Build strong working relationships with key partners

​We are an awesome place to work and care about our teams, so we want to make surewe are clear on a few more basics that we expect:

• Experience supporting stores/field organization
• Training experience
• Supervisory experience
• Strong leadership and influencing skills
• Must be able to travel within market area