Store Inventory Control Associate

Weis Markets•Hillsborough, NJ

20h•Onsite

About The Position

WEIS is looking for a Store Inventory Control Associate who is passionate about teamwork and the growth of its associates and communities. This role involves overseeing vendors, managing merchandise, and ensuring excellent customer relations. The associate will focus on continuous improvement, maintaining product saleability, and reducing shrink. Responsibilities include code date shelf inspections, executing reclamation processes, contacting vendors, and communicating merchandising expectations. The role also emphasizes maintaining backroom and receiving area security, sanitation, and organization using 5S procedures. Safety standards and the proper use of equipment are crucial. The associate will cooperate with co-workers and supervisors to ensure the smooth function of the department and store, continuously improving job performance and maintaining general sanitation in the department. This includes following cleaning schedules and department guidelines to ensure work areas, equipment, counters, and display cases are well-maintained, clean, and meet health and OSHA requirements. Proper disposal of trash is also a responsibility. The role may involve assisting with unloading deliveries using a power jack or hand jack, baling cardboard, and utilizing all company-provided Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), such as cut-resistant gloves, safety cutters, and company-sponsored footwear. Associates may also be called upon to assist in other departments.

Requirements

High school education or general education degree (GED).
Preferably two (2) years or more experience in receiving.
Age 21 or older to be auto-enrolled into the 401(k) retirement savings plan after 60 days.
Must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without an accommodation.

Nice To Haves

Training provided for power jack or hand jack operation.
Training provided for baling cardboard.

Responsibilities

Oversees vendors bringing merchandise in and out of store.
Receives, checks, counts and records all incoming merchandise and similarly checks and records all outgoing merchandise to be returned to vendors.
Compares identifying information and verifies counts or weight of incoming merchandise against bills of lading, invoices, orders or other records.
Promotes excellent customer relations by smiling and greeting customers, answering customer questions and helping resolve customer concerns promptly in a polite and professional manner.
Focuses on continuous improvement in all areas of the department and makes changes to ensure progress.
Ensures product is in saleable condition.
Rejects damaged items, records shortages and enters data or merchandise received into the system for proper billing.
Conducts code date shelf inspections to validate vendor compliance with rotation and freshness expectations.
Executes reclamation process according to company guidelines to scan, box, and return damaged, out-of-code or recalled merchandise.
Contacts vendors as needed to request product or service to meet customer demand.
Communicates merchandising expectations to vendors as directed by store management.
Reduces shrink by minimizing waste and damages, handling damaged or out-of-code merchandise according to established company procedures and ensuring proper receiving procedures are followed and enforced.
Maintains backroom and receiving area security, sanitation and organization by promoting 5S procedures.
Follows and enforces company safety standards and ensures that equipment used for receiving and moving merchandise to storage or sales floor is in safe operating condition.
Ensures smooth function of department and store by cooperating with co-workers and supervisors.
Responsible to continuously improve job performance.
Responsible for general sanitation in the department.
Follows cleaning schedules and department guidelines to ensure that work areas, equipment, counters, display cases, etc. are well maintained, clean and meet all health and OSHA requirements.
Disposes of trash properly.
May assist with unloading deliveries through operation of a power jack or hand jack if properly trained.
May assist with baling cardboard (if properly trained) or other related duties.
Responsible for utilization of all company provided Personal Protected Equipment (PPE).
May also be called upon to assist in other departments.