Product and Pricing Specialist
About The Position
The Product and Pricing Specialist maintains Grocery department standards for customer service, employee relations, cleanliness, sanitation, professional appearance, and profitability. The role helps ensure products are available to customers in a timely manner and that item parameters are accurately maintained in product management software. The specialist supports store management with gross profit analysis and reporting, maintains accurate inventory information, verifies pricing, and manages product placement, replenishment, advertising orders, and product information changes. The position also assists customers, department managers, and vendors, and helps monitor excess, obsolete, damaged, and unsaleable inventory. The role requires adherence to company policies and store guidelines, dependable attendance, and a customer-focused, professional approach.
Requirements
- Must be at least 18 years old.
- High school education or equivalent experience.
- Strong basic math skills, including arithmetic with fractions, decimals, and percentages.
- Over six months to one year of similar or related experience.
- Ability to solve practical problems involving a variety of variables with limited standardization and to interpret instructions.
- Ability to interview people to obtain basic information, provide basic direction, follow technical manuals, and interact with people.
- Ability to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally.
- Ability to perform climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, reaching, standing, walking, pulling, lifting, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions.
- Visual ability to see from less than 20 inches to more than 20 feet, with or without correction, including depth perception, color vision, and field of vision.
- Successful completion of a pre-employment drug screen is required.
Responsibilities
- Maintain a positive, friendly atmosphere through flexibility, teamwork, and a helpful attitude.
- Encourage employees to greet and speak with customers, and set an example by providing prompt, courteous, efficient service.
- Maintain department standards for customer service, employee relations, cleanliness, sanitation, professional appearance, and profitability.
- Assist customers by guiding them to products, retrieving out-of-reach items, helping with heavy items, and relaying suggestions or requests.
- Assist store management with gross profit analysis and other management reporting.
- Ensure inventory information is accurate for monthly inventory.
- Use product management software to minimize out-of-stocks and maintain correct item parameters and signage.
- Ensure advertised, EDLP, and RDA items are priced and signed correctly, and that sufficient quantities are ordered.
- Maintain special buys and verify product parameters in product management applications.
- Perform inventory and pricing verification according to company policy.
- Work with upper management on product placement for new items and resets.
- Reduce obsolete and discontinued inventory through quick sale and work with management to minimize excess inventory.
- Monitor and report damaged or unsaleable products and implement solutions to reduce them.
- Edit and transmit replenishment and advertising orders.
- Complete price and product-information changes in a timely manner.
- Assist department managers with product management questions.
- Work with direct-store-delivery vendors and check in and balance vendor invoices.
- Follow department and company requirements for personal hygiene and dress, and adhere to company policies and store guidelines.
- Report to work as scheduled and on time.
- Assist in other store areas and perform other related duties and special projects as needed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
High school or GED
