- Competitive Salary Packages
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Opportunity for Career Growth
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Room to bring a creative flair
About us
Join a growing fresh food retail business known for delivering quality, value and an exceptional customer experience. At Harris Farm Markets, everything we do is driven by our purpose for the Greater Goodness, for our customers, our community, our planet, and each other.
As a proud family owned Australian business, you’ll be part of something bigger where your work truly matters.
Here, you will:
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Do meaningful work that contributes to something bigger
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Grow your career in more directions than one
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Build real connections with people who feel like family
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Be valued for who you are, every day
We reward our people fairly and offer benefits that genuinely matter because great people deserve great things.
We are currently searching for our next Butcher Manager!
As Butcher Manager, you lead the meat department within a Harris Farm retail store. You bring your trade butchering every day and lead and coach your Butchers and Meat Assistants to grow their craft. You own the meat counter's presentation, product quality, food safety, waste, wage costs and sales. You work closely with the Store Manager and the Buying team to make sure the meat section is always the best reason to shop at Harris Farm. A working manager in the truest sense, hands on the product, eyes on the team.
Responsibilities
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Work the block daily, lead by example with your knife skills and craft
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Set the standard for cuts, trim, presentation and yield across the whole team
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Quality-check every delivery, you're the final say on whether product hits the counter
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Plan value-added production, marinades, roasts, skewers, sausages, to match demand
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Drive yield and waste reduction through smart trade judgement, every shift
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Lead, coach and develop your team
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Roster the team within budget and matched to demand within the Store Manager's overall plan
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Hold real performance conversations, recognise strong work, address gaps early
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Build a department where people want to stay and grow the trade
About you
We are looking for someone who loves food and protein, with previous experience working in a fresh food retail business. Additionally, we are looking for someone with:
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Several years post-qualification as a working butcher
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Experience leading a small team, formally or informally
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Retail butchery experience essential, customer-facing confidence matters
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Genuine interest in developing the next generation of butchers
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Strong product knowledge across cuts, origin, cooking methods, seasonality
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Commercial nous — reads numbers, makes decisions, acts on insights
Why you should apply
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If you like variety and love to be physically active
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Work with a highly successful business
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Value a career path
At Harris Farm, we welcome everyone, from all walks of life and all abilities. If you think you could be a great Harris Farmer, but don't necessarily meet every single point on the above requirements, please don’t be shy - get in touch!
