Personal Shopping Lead - Entry Level Leadership

Meijer

Posted 3 months ago

Full Time

Northville, Michigan

In Person

Smart Summary

Responsibilities

Lead the Personal Shopping team by guiding daily operations and ensuring exceptional customer experiences within the pickup service. Responsibilities include mentoring team members, managing schedules, and maintaining food safety and product freshness standards.

Qualifications

You have a passion for customer service and possess excellent communication skills, with previous retail or customer service experience preferred. You can effectively influence others, build rapport quickly, and are committed to fostering an inclusive and positive team environment.

Must Have Skills for ATS

Sales

Customer Service

Cash Handling

Inventory Management

Food Safety Standards

Scheduling

Training

Job Description

As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!

Meijer Rewards

  • Weekly pay

  • Scheduling flexibility

  • Paid parental leave 

  • Paid education assistance

  • Team member discount

  • Development programs for advancement and career growth

Please review the job profile below and apply today!

Are you someone who thrives on guiding others, setting the tone for excellence, and making a real impact every day? The Personal Shopping Lead role is your opportunity to take that first step into leadership while supporting our Meijer Pickup Service. You’ll lead by example—delivering exceptional customer experiences and inspiring your peers to do the same.

In this leadership position, you’ll provide direction and support to your team, helping shape daily operations and drive department success. You will provide direction related to operations, processes, and conditions in either our Deli, Meat, or Service Department. The Lead plans, guides, and empowers team members in the day-to-day operation of the department. You’ll lead by example—delivering exceptional customer experiences and inspiring your peers to do the same. Possesses the ability to help achieve department goals and influence their peers to create a continued winning strategy.

This full-time role offers weekly pay, comprehensive healthcare benefits, a team member discount, and support for continuing education!

What you’ll be doing: 

  • Engaging peers to provide the best possible shopping experience for our customers including an exceptional checkout experience.
  • Communicating with team members and assigning daily work tasks.
  • Mentoring and coaching other team members to ensure customer service and sales goals are exceeded and the area is maintained to Meijer standards and team members have completed required trainings.
  • Supports training new team members/cross-training high potential talent, providing peer coaching on job responsibilities/standards to positively impact team member productivity.
  • Working with leadership on department schedule writing to focus on team member engagement, improving customer service, store sales and profitability.
  • Ensuring freshness of products by closely monitoring execution of rotation and dating policies.
  • Guiding the team in compliance with food safety standards and regulations and working in a safe manner aligning to 200% accountability.
  • Leading team members to ensure ordering, receiving, stocking, pricing, and product display are completed, where applicable.
  • Actively creating an environment that supports the Meijer culture, including valuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
  • Operating a register and cash handling when needed.
  • Operating powered equipment, where applicable.
  • Participating in period end inventories, where applicable, to help achieve goals.
  • May be required to act in Lead capacity in other departments throughout the store
  • This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position. You may perform other duties as assigned or required.

What You Bring with You (Qualifications):

  • Passion for customer service with total engagement that conveys approachability to customers and fellow team members.
  • Initiates interactions with customers and peers.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication
  • Retail or other customer service experience preferred
  • Creative thinking skills
  • Ability to influence others
  • Ability to quickly build rapport and gain customer confidence to create repeat business
  • Ability to lift, carry, push, pull, bend and twist while handling product
  • Experience executing plans
  • Positive influence to create a strong team environment.
  • A commitment to fostering an inclusive environment where all team members and vendors feel valued and supported.

Meijer

Meijer is a family-owned, Midwest-based retailer with more than 500 supercenters, grocery stores, neighborhood markets, and express locations throughout the Midwest. Based in Grand Rapids, Mich., we employ more than 71,000 team members and rank among the nation’s largest privately held companies. As the pioneer of the “one-stop shopping” concept, we’re committed to delivering quality products, great value, and exceptional service. Our core values—customers, competition, family, freshness, health, and safety—guide everything we do. For more than 90 years, we’ve supported our communities through charitable giving, nonprofit partnerships, and local events. Meijer is consistently recognized as a Great Place to Work and annually donates at least 6 percent of its profit to strengthen its communities. We believe in helping team members reach their full potential because together, we can do great things. Join us and be part of a company that values innovation, growth, and family.
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