Seasonal Merchandising Service Associate

Lowes•Rome, GA

8h•Onsite

About The Position

The Seasonal Merchandising Service Associate provides SMART customer service, maintains in-stock merchandise, and ensures clean and safe stores. This role involves building relationships with vendors, collaborating with the Merchandising Service team and Manager, and analyzing metrics to provide feedback on project execution and in-store service. While the majority of time is spent on activities not involving direct customer interaction, the associate is expected to engage with customers when opportunities arise, assisting with locating, demonstrating, selecting, carrying, and loading merchandise, and responding to questions. Key responsibilities also include moving and replacing merchandise, rotating stock, building products, and displaying materials using power equipment. The associate identifies and handles damaged products, verifies buyback items, manages signage and pricing information, and ensures proper product placement to drive sales. Furthermore, the role involves completing and documenting merchandise reset, service, and maintenance tasks, ensuring displays are safe, repairing damaged packaging, managing waste, and reporting maintenance issues. The associate is also responsible for detecting security risks, ensuring compliance with housekeeping standards, maintaining a safe work environment, adhering to safety requirements, and operating various store equipment.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED General Studies or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable

Nice To Haves

6 Months of Lowe’s sales floor experience
6 Months of Experience performing product merchandising tasks including reading planograms and plantograms, setting up and tearing down displays
3 Months of Experience operating power equipment such as lifts, order pickers, and similar equipment

Responsibilities

Provides SMART customer service at all times through the daily execution of Lowe's customer service policies, procedures and programs
Builds relationships with vendors by providing direction and checking to ensure merchandise resets are completed according to Lowe’s specifications
Collaborates with the Merchandising Service team and Manager by communicating project priorities, schedule, and project needs (e.g., materials, supplies, time)
Analyzes metrics and provides feedback on project execution and in-store service to store, market, and corporate leaders
Understands customers’ needs and assists in locating, demonstrating, selecting, carrying, and/or loading merchandise
Engage with customers to understand his/her needs and assists in locating, demonstrating, selecting, carrying, and/or loading merchandise
Listens to and responds knowledgeably and promptly to customer and employee questions by taking them to areas of the store and walking them through projects when necessary
Demonstrates sincere appreciation to customers
Communicates information to customers regarding all stock, special order merchandise, feature benefits, application, and warranty information related to Lowe’s programs
Moves or replaces beams and grids, rotates stock, builds products, and displays products and support materials using power equipment (e.g., lifts, order pickers) per reset and/or project instructions and processes
Identifies damaged products, removes them from the shelves, delivers them to Return to Manufacturer (RTM) area, and signs off on the products as defective
Verifies buyback items and ensures they are pulled, prepped, and ready for shipping
Identifies damaged or missing signage, displays, and collateral and orders replacements in accordance with merchandising standards and planogram details
Confirms that product pricing information is visible and clear and resolves/replaces any missing pricing labels
Updates/validates wayfinding and product location signage as well as digital maintenance of this information throughout the store
Ensures cross merchandise, side stack products, j-hooks and gravity feed bins are placed appropriately, helping to drive add-on sales
Works with store leadership to stage clearance and damaged merchandise for quick sale
Sorts products in bins, drawers and boxes to ensure that they are in the proper location
Merchandise to plantogram, price, color block and place plants as they arrive
Fill plant racks onto plant tables per plantogram to grand opening ready standards
Reviews, completes, and enters completion details (when, what, amount of time spent, taking and uploading photographs to confirm servicing completion, etc.) for all assigned merchandise reset, service, and maintenance tasks
Ensures all reset displays are safe and in working order and repaired/replaced as needed
Repairs/seals damaged packaging and boxes including peg-hook items
Removes all trash, moves cardboard boxes to the bailer, and moves plastic wrap and other debris to the compactor
Replaces light bulbs and alerts the appropriate contact when additional maintenance issues are noted (lights out, painting, etc.)
Detects common signs of shoplifting, theft, and other security risks, and promptly communicates them to management and/or Asset Protection
Ensures compliance with housekeeping standards and programs (e.g., Zone Recovery) to maintain cleanliness and organization of store and working areas
Maintains a safe and secure work environment, which may include conducting daily safety reviews, noting hazards, keeping aisles clear, and securing doors and gates
Adheres to all safety requirements relevant to one’s regular job duties: top stock safety, reinstalling safety cables, use of aisle blockers, a tether line on power equipment, spotters, and safety devices
Operates store equipment as needed depending on one specific role and department (e.g., Zebra phone, telephone, paging system, copiers, fax machines, computers, CCTV surveillance system, key cutter, panel saw, paint mixer, flooring cutters, compacter baler)
Maintain point-of-sale signage including bin plus beam label stock ensuring all bin locators are placed and price changes are activated
Audit and update pricing labels inside and outside the store to ensure accuracy
Follow state-specific guidelines on price changes (Pricing Policy SF-06)