The Taste NY Market Manager oversees all aspects of the Market and helps ensure a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment for staff and customers. The Manager frequently builds and maintains tactful, collaborative relationships with vendors, NY State agencies, Cornell University, and other CCE associations.
The Manager leads and motivates staff resulting in informal education about NYS farmers and other producers; positive customer service to members of the public; generation of sales; minimizing losses; and ensuring the store and website is visually distinctive and impeccably maintained.
This position works in-person including early mornings, nights, weekends, and holidays based on the Market schedule ensuring appropriate staffing and supervisory coverage levels.
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with retail environments, managing vendor and/or governmental relationships, agriculture, and agri-tourism.
Position Details
This is a full-time, exempt position. Compensation in the range of $60,500 to $62,000 annually. Excellent benefits, based on eligibility, including:
All applications must be received on-line by 11:59 pm on January 7, 2025. Position closing dates may change based on Association needs.
Application for Taste NY Manager Position
Multiple positions available, including FT. PT, and Seasonal (temporary). Compensation paid at the rate of $17.00 per hour.
Taste NY highlights the quality, diversity, and economic impact of food and beverages grown, produced, or processed in New York State. The Cornell Cooperative Extension of Columbia & Greene Counties Capital Region Welcome Center Taste NY Market (the “Market”) promotes the region's local tourism industry, rich history, food and beverages. The Market is a partnership between CCE of Columbia and Greene Counties, Cornell University, NYS Agriculture and Markets and the NYS Empire State Development Corporation.
Taste NY Market Store Associate responsibilities include assisting with management of inventory, operation of cash register, cash controls, transportation of inventory to the store, customer service, food service and record keeping. Helps to keep the store visually distinctive and impeccably maintained – cleaning, preparing product demonstrations, restocking, refilling supplies, etc. Associates also discuss NYS agriculture and local foods with customers to engage them in these areas and to provide information upon request about the food and farm products sold in the store.
Required Educational Qualifications:
High School Diploma or equivalent.
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Last updated December 18, 2024