Back-End Dept Supervisor

Lowe's Home Centers • Willis, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Back-End Department Supervisor is responsible for overseeing and driving efficiencies in back-end operational activities, such as receiving and stocking inventory, assembling product, controlling freight flow, area recovery, and delivery staging. This role ensures that back-end operations do not negatively impact the customer or their ability to shop the store by maintaining clear aisles and ensuring items are stocked. The supervisor drives the completion of activities that ensure efficient disbursement of product from receiving to sales departments, ensuring shelves and top stock are consistently replenished. This includes managing the receiving and unloading of freight, stocking products according to planograms, moving top stock down, noting low merchandise areas, and keeping aisles clear and neat. The supervisor also drives activities that support an efficient and safe delivery process, including picking and staging product for delivery. During the overnight shift, this manager is often the only key-carrying manager in the building and is responsible for these activities. Additionally, the Department Supervisor is held accountable for other duties as assigned. As a Manager-on-Duty (MOD), this individual provides full leadership over the store, driving engagement, customer service, staffing, and operational efficiency. This includes walking the store, observing customer/associate interactions, providing in-the-moment coaching, ensuring associates are equipped for sales and service, managing staffing for specialty and Pro areas, engaging with customers, driving sales, shifting associates to areas of high customer traffic or department hotspots, managing associate response to call buttons, validating clean and safe aisles, and handing off shift observations to the next MOD. They also funnel non-MOD activities, such as customer complaints and management approvals, to appropriate leaders. For Parcel stores, this role ensures items are picked accurately and efficiently for Parcel orders, meeting customer promise and ship time standards, and ensures proper preparation, packing, and shipping of Parcel orders using correct materials in a timely manner.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED
• General Studies or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable
• 3 Years experience in a retail environment (or 5 years of experience in a retail environment if education requirement is not met)
• Experience providing direction or supervision to teams (with or without direct report responsibility)
• Experience supporting or participating in the process of training, mentoring and developing associates
• Experience working cross-functionally
• Ability to obtain sales related licensure or registration as may be required by law

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting front-end or back-end operations in a retail environment
• Experience in customer service role
• Experience in a leadership role with direct report responsibility
• Experience working in the home improvement retail sector
• Experience working in a fast paced, dynamic retail environment
• Experience using store computer systems (including but not limited to: Project Tool, Genesis, Sterling, M2O, Thin Client, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Assigns team members to activities, ensuring staff coverage meets customer demands and redeploying when necessary to support needs throughout the department.
• May participate in interviews and provide input into selection decisions for new associates in assigned area.
• Connects with the team on a daily basis to understand any challenges they are facing, elevating issues when necessary.
• Provides open and timely feedback and performance coaching to members of team, redirecting any problematic or ineffective behavior when necessary; partners with ASM when formal disciplinary action is needed.
• Encourages team to share ideas and best practices for delivering outstanding customer service and accomplishing important support activities.
• Empowers others to make decisions while providing guidance when necessary.
• Provides recognition for accomplishing goals and demonstrating effective behaviors.
• Fosters an environment of associate growth and development, ensuring associates are confident and competent to perform their job through coaching and regular performance feedback.
• Identifies any associate relations concerns and takes the appropriate action as needed, including elevating concerns to senior management or HR.
• Empowers and coaches team to follow proper processes and achieve operational efficiencies to present department areas that are prepared and conducive to SMART customer service and sales.
• Monitors and drives team to achievement of key operational performance metrics.
• Identifies any barriers to operational processes or the customer experience and communicates those barriers and implements solutions in a timely manner.
• Responds quickly and effectively to unexpected events (e.g. callouts/no-shows, unscheduled deliveries) by reprioritizing tasks.
• Monitors the use of store power equipment, ensuring that it operated safely at all times and addressing any violations with associates.
• Maintains a focus on safety, security and shrink prevention by ensuring doors and gates are secured and monitored, signs of shoplifting and theft are reported appropriately, and that steps are taken on a daily basis to maintain inventory and shrink budget integrity.
• Conducts daily safety reviews, noting hazards, keeping store areas clean and organized, and monitoring for potential theft or security risks.
• Recommends operational strategies to reduce unproductive time, waste or product loss and encourages team to do the same.
• Analyzes operational activities and determines ways to reduce the impact on the customer.
• Seeks performance feedback from others and pursues self-development opportunities.
• Proactively builds and maintains collaborative relationships with cross-functional partners.
• Sets an example for others by adapting quickly and effectively to work challenges and organizational change.
• Oversees and drives efficiencies in back-end operational activities (e.g., receiving and stocking inventory, assembling product, controlling freight flow, area recovery, delivery staging, etc.).
• Ensures that back-end operations do not impact the customer or the customer’s ability to shop the store (e.g., the floor is clear, items are stocked).
• Drives completion of activities that ensure efficient disbursement of product from receiving to sales departments such that shelves and top stock are consistently replenished (e.g., receiving/unloading of freight, stocking).
• Ensures products are stocked and fronted according to planograms, moving top stock down when necessary, taking note of areas where merchandise is low, and keeps aisles clear and neat.
• Drives the completion of activities that support an efficient and safe delivery process (e.g., pick and stage product for delivery).
• Provides full leadership over the store, driving engagement, customer service, and staffing and operational efficiency.
• Walks the store, observing customer/associate interaction and providing in-the-moment coaching.
• Ensures associates are equipped and prepared to deliver quality sales and service.
• Ensures Specialty and Pro areas are properly staffed for customer traffic, engaging with customers, and driving sales.
• Shifts associates to areas of high customer traffic or department hotspots as needed.
• Manages associate response to call buttons.
• Validates that aisles remain clean, safe and free of clutter.
• Hands off shift observations in-person to the next MOD.
• Funnels non-MOD activities (e.g., customer complaints, management approvals, and other run the business activities including opening and closing the store) to appropriate non-MOD leaders.
• Ensures items are picked for Parcel orders accurately and efficiently meeting customer promise and ship time standards (for Parcel stores only).
• Ensures proper preparation, packing and shipping of Parcel orders, by utilizing the correct materials in a timely manner (for Parcel stores only).

Benefits

• Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: High school or GED