STORE/LEAD RECEIVER

The Kroger Co.•Carbondale, CO

About The Position

The Store/Lead Receiver provides customer service and supervises and completes transactions with third-party vendors. The role monitors store conditions and inventory, helps maintain standards, follows safe food-handling guidelines, and directs the night crew and third-party vendors. The employee demonstrates the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. Responsibilities include receiving and managing merchandise, maintaining inventory and ordering accuracy, handling Direct Store Delivery (DSD) plans and vendor communication, supporting price changes and inventory activities, and ensuring food-safety, receiving-area, equipment, and security standards. The role also trains and develops associates, collaborates across departments, assists customers with transactions and groceries, and may perform supervisory duties when assigned.

Requirements

High school graduation or equivalent preferred.
Ability to read, retain, and comprehend a technical manual.
Basic math skills, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Writing skills to complete forms for budgets, inventories, orders, and reports.
Good customer-service skills.
Ability to read and write.
Good communication skills.
Good organizational skills.
Good associate-relations skills.
Ability to enter data using a keyboard and use a 10-key keypad.
Management and leadership skills.
Grocery department experience.
Receiving experience.
Ordering experience.

Nice To Haves

High school graduate or equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

Maintain awareness of inventory and stocking conditions to support ordering-system integrity, including Computer Assisted Ordering and balance-on-hand accuracy.
Check the condition, quantity, pricing, and temperature of received products.
Process damaged or returned goods and complete the required paperwork.
Assist with markdowns and the 5S process for markdown locations.
Ensure inventory is managed for all delivered products.
Manage the Direct Store Delivery (DSD) advertising plan, inventory, and sales-floor ad space.
Scan DSD out-of-stocks and communicate with vendors.
Maintain 5S standards in the receiving and backroom areas.
Ensure vendors follow company policies and procedures, including the vendor dress code.
Assist with routine price changes by updating shelf tags and promotional signs.
Assist with planning, organizing, and supervising the inventory process.
Report product ordering and shipping discrepancies to the department manager.
Stay current with present, future, seasonal, and special advertisements.
Follow food-safety regulations and guidelines.
Assist with the perishable donation program.
Maintain proper temperatures in cases and coolers and maintain temperature logs.
Ensure shipping and receiving tools work properly and support product transitions and inventory logs.
Inspect equipment for preventive maintenance needs and notify the appropriate department or store manager of items needing repair, such as a power mule or hand jack.
Maintain security in the receiving area and backroom.
Develop and train a backup DSD Receiver.
Communicate company, department, and job-specific information to associates and vendors.
Collaborate with associates and promote teamwork to help achieve company and store goals.
Train and develop associates in their jobs and participate in the performance appraisal process.
Assist in other departments when needed.
Attend required classes and meetings.
Prepare for and perform quarterly department inventory.
Unload groceries, operate the checkout terminal, and complete customer monetary transactions as needed.
Bag groceries and load them into shopping carts as needed.
When supervisory duties are assigned, evaluate, prepare, and review associate performance evaluations.
When supervisory duties are assigned, investigate associate issues, determine action, and proceed with progressive discipline.
When supervisory duties are assigned, train new and promoted associates.
When supervisory duties are assigned, communicate information to upper management and store personnel.
When supervisory duties are assigned, enforce company policies and procedures and union contracts, if applicable.
When supervisory duties are assigned, review department statements and follow through on discrepancies.
When supervisory duties are assigned, review time cards and follow through as needed.
When supervisory duties are assigned, review department bulletins and implement company programs.
When supervisory duties are assigned, monitor and control shrink and expenses.
When supervisory duties are assigned, complete required forms.
When supervisory duties are assigned, identify emergency situations and contact appropriate personnel.
When supervisory duties are assigned, monitor and maintain store security while in charge.
Perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.