Specialty Variety (57502)

HOMELAND STORES•Oklahoma City, OK

2d•$14•Onsite

About The Position

Do you have a passion for food, love providing top level customer service and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment? Since our employees are also owners, they care deeply about providing high quality service to each and every customer. Our mission as an employee owned company is to offer quality food choices to the communities we serve, support local farmers and producers, and develop and reinvest in our employee owners. Apply today and begin your ownership journey! VARIETY MANAGER PURPOSE STATEMENT: To manage the Variety Department to achieve maximum sales and profit.

Requirements

Able to give/receive complex verbal instructions/descriptions to/from supervisors/co-workers/employees concerning store/department policy/procedures and use of equipment.
The ability to read and write English. Able to read instructions, tote stickers, merchandise labels, warehouse order-codes, numbers, reports, printed paper and forms.
Make judgments concerning: the placement of merchandise on the shelf/display, pricing, employee scheduling, order of product/supplies, department conditions, hiring/supervision of employees, merchandising plans, department’s operational policies and procedures and the sales/promotion of merchandise.
Good interpersonal communications.

Nice To Haves

High school diploma or equivalent.
Prior Variety Department experience.
Prior experience in implementing HBC/GM planograms.

Responsibilities

To greet customers, respond to customer questions/requests/complaints and explain store policies in a courteous manner.
To orient/train all new variety department employees and retrain employees when necessary.
To implement a weekly display plan for end-aisle merchandising and ad promotion.
To order all variety products, specialty foods and supplies so as to eliminate out-of-stocks while maintaining the desired variety turns.
To perform: 1) preparation for receipt of merchandise; 2) checking of each item in the totes; 3) sorting of totes according to aisle or location of product for stocking; 4) stocking of merchandise on shelf/peg/strip/rack according to plan-o-gram; 5) building of displays.
To safely use cleaning equipment and chemicals.
To perform: 1) loading of stocking carts; 2) transportation of totes to the sales floor on stocking carts; 3) matching of the case-strip to the shelf tag/stock; 4) sticker-price items with non-removable labels; 5) rotate stock; 6) place merchandise in the designated shelf/display position/area; 7) the "face/front" program for the front row of each display; 8) the immediate pick up/removal of all broken containers, packing materials/boxes from the sales floor or customers’ pathway.
To perform the safety procedures used in the operation of the baler, case cutter, pallet jack, and stocking cart.
To perform the counting and recording of individual items of merchandise for inventory.
To perform the manual price-marking/labeling of merchandise without a UPC code.
To supervise the movement of damaged/unsalable and "returnable" products from shelves to the backroom, sorting of the materials into bins and the return of damage to vendors.
To perform the changing of signs, tags and price markers.
To perform miscellaneous tasks assigned by the store manager, substituting for absent workers and performing any additional tasks necessary to provide products and services to customers.