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Corporate Opportunities

Contributions
Departments
Locations

The teams behind the scenes.

Nearly 3,000 corporate associates work behind the scenes to support our stores, our distribution centers, and our manufacturing plants. Most of them are based at our corporate headquarters in Lakeland, Florida, but several hundred are on field support teams that work in the five states in which we operate.

Contributions

Our Corporate teams are responsible for:

responding to the thousands of customers who email, write, phone, or fax us with compliments, questions, suggestions or complaints
evaluating hundreds of new products each year and letting customers know about the ones we decide to purchase or manufacture
overseeing our supply chain to monitor inventories in our distribution centers, in our stores, and on the road in our fleet of trucks
buying property and designing new stores
developing strategies to reduce losses or accidents incurred by our associates, our customers, and our company
designing and facilitating training programs
administering a wide array of associate benefit programs
helping to manage our vast technological resources, and
making sure our company upholds our legal and ethical obligations.

Departments

The major departments in our Corporate Offices include the following:

Locations

Our Corporate headquarters in Lakeland consists of our three main offices and several smaller facilities. We have divisional offices in Atlanta, Jacksonville, and Miami. We also have field staff in other cities.

How to Apply

To find out more about any of these departments, visit their pages by clicking on their links above, or select your department of interest on our Become an Associate page.

Why I Love Publix

Anthony,
Senior Training Developer

In the summer of 1980, I started as a part-time associate in the Housewares warehouse, viewing Publix as a temporary means to a greater end. No way did I intend to become a "Publix lifer."

However, 12 years later I found myself still employed with Publix after being promoted to the position of Quality Improvement Facilitator in the Lakeland Dairy Processing Plant. During this period in my personal life, I didn't always make the best decisions which resulted in a lot of emotional pain and financial distress. Luckily, at the time, I worked for a Plant Manager who not only cared about me as his associate but made me feel as if I was a member of his own family.

He was a hard business man with extremely high expectations. Yet, he realized the importance of the human side of the equation as well. At the end of the each work day, he always took the time to talk to me about life outside of Publix. He knew when to question and he knew when to let me talk. Most importantly, he knew how to let me figure it out on my own.

It was during this time that I realized what this company is all about. Publix is not in the grocery business....Publix is in the business of taking care of people. That's why 26 years later I'm glad to say that I'm still employed by Publix Supermarkets.