Admin - File Maintenance Clerk

HOMELAND STORES•Muskogee, OK

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The File Maintenance Clerk helps maximize profit by keeping the front-end system price file, item prices, tags, and signage current. The role activates regular price changes, verifies item and shelf-tag pricing, maintains item-file accuracy, and helps ensure the POS system is secure. The clerk communicates pricing and signage issues to store and department managers and performs other tasks assigned by the store manager, including covering for absent workers and supporting customer service.

Requirements

Good communication and organizational skills.
Basic mathematical ability, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Ability to give and receive complex verbal instructions and descriptions concerning store policies, procedures, and equipment use.
Ability to read and write English, including reading instructions, labels, numbers, price sheets, printed materials, and forms.
Basic computer knowledge and skills.
Work and educational history demonstrating stability.
Ability to work well independently.
Attention to detail and accuracy with numbers.
Ability to move the length of the store and to the backroom, approximately 100 yards, and work on tile, asphalt, or concrete for up to 8 hours.
Ability to pick up items from floors, cases, shelves, carts, and checkstands; reach items approximately 84 inches from the floor; and reach and twist forward or downward up to 36 inches.
Ability to grasp and handle wet, cold, hot, or crushable store products.
Ability to recognize shelf tags, merchandise, bag and product sizes, computer screens, product labels, grocery carts, signs, and customers, and to perceive color differences in products and on computer screens.
Ability to use scanning and price-verification equipment, a bar-code printer, a computer, and other required equipment; use and respond to the intercom; communicate with and listen to coworkers; and read labels, signs, tags, advertisements, numbers, and aisle markers.

Nice To Haves

High school diploma or equivalent.
Prior experience in a related job.
Prior experience operating scanning equipment, a bar-code printer, a computer, price-verification equipment, and an intercom.

Responsibilities

Activate regular price changes listed on change forms, including changes related to weekly ads, deals, and price reductions.
Ensure items on cases, shelves, and displays have correct price tags or signs; order or make tags and signs as needed.
Perform department manual price changes in the POS system.
Ensure direct store-delivered items are included in the item/price file.
Monitor the item file for correct multiple prices, cents-off labels, mix-match, pre-priced, and bonus-priced items.
Verify item/price file accuracy against shelf-tag prices and the store price book for DSD, warehouse-delivered, advertised, Special Buy, deal, new-item, direct-ship, and PLU items; determine whether items are set up correctly, missing, or priced incorrectly in the system.
Understand the operation, safety requirements, and restraints of scanning equipment, computers, price-verification equipment, and the intercom system.
Communicate problems, recommendations for changes, and pricing or signage decisions to store and department managers.
Work with the produce department each week to print and verify a list of department PLU files.
Make two copies of the backup tape, one for the manager and one for the safe.
Compile information about bad UPC codes found at registers and report the codes to the Corporate Office.
Secure the POS system against unauthorized changes.
Review price changes and new shelf tags from the Corporate Office.
Perform miscellaneous tasks assigned by the store manager, substitute for absent workers, and complete other tasks needed to provide products and services to customers.