Retail Inventory Control

Albertsons•Issaquah, WA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for managing inventory control within a retail setting, ensuring accuracy, preventing loss, and maintaining efficient operations in the receiving and storage areas. The position champions customer service programs and promotes the company's philosophy of personalized service. It involves receiving deliveries, managing product flow, reconciling invoices, and maintaining organized and secure work areas. The role also includes training duties and potentially assisting with stocking and merchandising tasks in the absence of other clerks. Safety, accuracy, and integrity are paramount in performing all job duties.

Requirements

Ability to be friendly, courteous, tactful and maintain composure in dealing with customers, co-workers and vendors.
Requires good interpersonal, organizational and verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to be a team player.
Ability to comprehend and follow written and oral instructions.
Frequently reaches, lifts, stacks and maneuver objects of varying dimensions and weights up to approximately 80 lbs., within the range of floor level to overhead.
Ability to push and pull fully loaded hand trucks, six-wheel carts and pallet jacks.
Ability to operate related equipment such as: power lifts, balers, compactors, cutters, pricing guns and computer equipment.
Ability to operate 10-key and type on a keyboard.
Ability to stand up for long periods of time, walk and move rapidly, bend, stoop, twist and turn frequently.
May claim ladders.
Manual dexterity and good eye-hand coordination are necessary.
Mental alertness is required to ensure safe, accurate completion of work activities and to do repetitious work accuracy.
Requires knowledge of basic mathematics.
Requires a good understanding of Company policies and procedures regarding receiving, ordering, stocking, merchandising, pricing, inventory control and product warehousing/storage.
Requires product knowledge including seasonality and perishability.
Requires knowledge of product movement and factors impacting gross margins.
Ability to work early mornings, weekends and holidays.
Regular attendance is required.

Nice To Haves

Operates related equipment such as: hand trucks, six-wheel carts, power lifts, pallet jacks, balers, compactors, cutters, pricing guns and computer equipment such as hand held units and stationary CRT units.

Responsibilities

Champions Company and Division customer service programs to meet or exceed Division customer service goals.
Promotes Albertson’s philosophy of personalized service.
Receives all deliveries and logs into the computer.
Breaks down loads from DSD suppliers.
May transport products from receiving area to storage, freezer, cooler or sales area.
Ensures cost, quality and inventory controls through verifying orders against invoices, auditing contents of product and using the electronic receiving system to verify costs.
Reconciles vendor invoices to costs on the computer system.
Inputs differences by item into the system.
Balances all receiving and transmits information to the general office for payment.
Maintains invoices and reports in the established filling system according to the record retention schedule.
Reviews and accepts only proper and correct orders submitted by outside sales representatives.
Daily reviews emails to review communication from the DSD Coordinator and retrieves vendor invoices.
Prevents shrink, damage and spoilage of product.
Repairs and prices damaged product if saleable.
Discards or returns damaged product to appropriate vendor as required.
Responsible for the security, sanitation and organization of the receiving, storage and loading dock areas.
Performs training duties.
May occasionally perform duties such as ordering, stocking, stacking, facing, pricing, marking and rotating of dairy and frozen food items, in the absence of the dairy or frozen food clerks.
Responsible for performing all job duties and responsibilities safely, accurately and with honesty and integrity.
Maintains good working relationship with vendors and delivering personnel.
Other necessary and required duties.
Requires the ability to judge and react to business activity.
Complies with all Company policies including attendance, grooming standards and dress codes.
May utilize cleaning supplies, chemicals and safety cutters.
Complies with all Company policies including attendance, grooming standards and dress codes.