Merchandising Lead

Walmart•Lakeland, FL

20h•Onsite

About The Position

The Merchandising Lead provides member service by identifying needs, assisting with purchasing decisions, locating merchandise, and resolving issues. This role supports management in supervising associates by assigning duties, communicating goals, providing feedback and training, ensuring compliance with company policies, and participating in recruiting, hiring, scheduling, coaching, and evaluating associates. Key responsibilities include receiving and stocking merchandise, maintaining sales floor organization and presentation, ensuring facility safety, monitoring food and merchandise quality, and overseeing club pick-up orders. The position involves developing and implementing business processes, collaborating with various partners, and promoting compliance with company ethics and integrity standards. The Merchandising Lead also leads and participates in teams, fostering a culture of belonging, respect, integrity, customer focus, and continuous improvement, aligning with Walmart's values.

Requirements

Must be 18 years of age or older.
6 months retail experience.
6 months customer service experience.

Nice To Haves

Leading a team.
Supervising experience to include hiring, evaluating, mentoring, developing, and managing the workload of others.

Responsibilities

Provides member service by acknowledging the member and identifying member needs, providing guidance and support to members regarding self-service technology, assisting members with purchasing decisions, locating merchandise, resolving member issues and concerns, and promoting the company's products and services.
Assists management with the supervision of associates in assigned area of responsibility by assigning duties to associates, communicating goals and feedback, training associates on processes and procedures, providing direction and guidance to associates on member service approaches and techniques to ensure member complaints and issues are resolved according to company guidelines, ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures, supporting the Open Door Policy, and participating in recruiting, hiring, scheduling, promoting, coaching, and evaluating associates.
Receives and stocks supplies and merchandise from distribution centers and vendors throughout the facility and organizes and maintains the sales floor by utilizing equipment, merchandising, and completing paperwork, logs, and other required documentation according to company policies and procedures.
Maintains safety of facility according to company policies and procedures by conducting safety sweeps, following procedures for forklift spotting and handling and disposing of hazardous materials, following company steel standard guidelines, and correcting and reporting unsafe situations to management.
Ensures maintenance of the sales floor and merchandise presentation in accordance with company policies and procedures by properly handling claims and returns, zoning the area, stocking, arranging and organizing merchandise, setting up, cleaning, and organizing product displays, removing damaged goods, signing and pricing merchandise according to company policies and procedures, identifying shrink and damages, and securing fragile and high-shrink merchandise.
Monitors food and merchandise quality by ensuring product rotation, code dating, product recalls, and sanitation standards are followed according to company policies and procedures, merchandising area categories, and stocking, zoning, and cleaning all departments.
Oversees the picking and staging of club pick up orders throughout the day and ensuring products are selected and staged according to company policy and procedures.
Develops, communicates, and implements processes and practices to meet business needs by collaborating with managers, coworkers, customers, and other business partners, analyzing and applying information from multiple sources, monitoring progress and results, and identifying and addressing improvement opportunities.
Demonstrates, promotes, and supports compliance with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity by explaining, guiding, and demonstrating how to apply these in executing business processes and practices, implementing related action plans, using the Open Door Policy, and assisting management with correcting ethical and compliance issues and problems.
Leads and participates in teams by using and sharing resources, information, and tools, determining customer needs and business priorities, coordinating and executing work assignments, providing advice, feedback, and support to ensure timelines and work quality are achieved, and modeling and helping others with how to adapt to change or new challenges.

Benefits

Competitive pay
Performance-based bonus awards
Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage
Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance
Paid time off benefits include PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting
PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes
Short-term and long-term disability
Company discounts
Military Leave Pay
Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
Live Better U is a company paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.