Total 26 Purchasing / Procurement / Inventory job vacancies in INVERNESS, IV1 1AD

As we continue to grow we are looking for a dynamic and experienced Purchasing & Operations Manager to join the Caley Timber team in Inverness. The right candidate would have building trade experience and good building product knowledge. Working knowledge of Excel and Word would be preferable.

As we continue to grow we are looking for a dynamic and experienced Purchasing & Operations Manager to join the Caley Timber team in Inverness.

Salary & Benefits include
* £45k salary
* Company vehicle
* Pension contributions
* Growth in future earnings through Employee Ownership Trust

About the role:
As the Purchasing and Operations Manager, you will play a crucial role in overseeing the purchasing process and optimising operational efficiency within Caley Timber. You will be responsible for managing the end-to-end purchasing cycle, ensuring timely and cost-effective procurement of raw materials, and enhancing operational processes to meet company objectives.

You will also play a key role working with our third-party suppliers as regards facilitating health and safety actions and as part of a national buying group.
Some UK travel as part of this role is expected once or twice per month.
About Caley Timber:

We are a leading independent supplier of high-quality building materials, serving a diverse range of clients across Scotland. We are an employee-owned company with an exciting future. With a commitment to sustainability and excellence, we take pride in delivering our clients the best solutions.

We like to think our culture is different, we understand and support balance between work and home. Our environment is empowering and supportive and our team is completely central to our success. As we are owned by our employees we operate, develop and grow our company for the benefit of our employees who play a central role in our decision making.

Warehouse Operative

Location: Inverness - IV1 1AD

Pay Rate: £11.44 per hour

Hours of Work: Monday to Friday: Afternoon Shift - 15:00pm Starts

Job Type: Temporary with possible opportunity of a permanent role.

Start Date: As soon as possible

Want to work for one of the most iconic companies? Parcelforce, the most trusted and successful parcel delivery business, has an exciting opportunity for you to join their team as a warehouse operative.

This is a temporary position.

Your Duties Will Include (But Not Exclusive):
* Unloading and loading vans
* Manual handling of parcels up to 30kg
* Scanning and checking labels
* Ensuring that parcels are handled safely to prevent damage
* Unwrapping and wrapping pallets
* Checking for any damage or faults in goods

The ideal candidate:

* We are looking for someone with a strong work ethic, flexible and happy to work hard on their own initiative
* We are looking for someone with good people skills that are helpful and friendly
* Fast-paced and target oriented environment
* Must be able to lift and carry parcels weighing up to 30kg
* Flexibility to work overtime when needed
* Experience in a warehouse environment
* Ability to carry out continual heavy lifting
* Knowledge of goods in and goods out scanning systems


If you are interested please apply now!

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Job Introduction

Store Location: Inverness

Store Hours: 42.5

With a real focus on customer experience and colleague development, our Store Managers are key to driving the success of our stores. As a store manager, you will be responsible for delivering commercial growth and developing a team culture of putting the customer at the heart of everything we do.

Role Responsibility

• You will have overall responsibility for the running of the store, focusing on customer experience, colleague development, and delivering commercial growth in line with our 5-year strategy.
• Putting the customer at the heart of everything we do you will develop a team of colleagues who live and breathe our customer promise and actively seek ways to delight our customers.
• You will coach, train and develop colleagues within your store harnessing their strengths and building on development areas.
• Be proactive in recruiting a team of Assistant Managers, Team Leaders, and Sales Assistants that reflect our values, behaviours with the required skill set to meet our business needs.
• Make commercial decisions around stock availability and merchandising.
• Actively seek contact with key stakeholders to gain a wider understanding of the business
• Providing constructive and beneficial feedback to the store team, District and Regional Managers around store performance and business opportunities to encourage continual growth.

The Ideal Candidate

• You will be as passionate about celebrating our customers’ life moments as we are
• Have previous experience as a store manager within a retail environment working collaboratively with wider stakeholders across the business
• Have experience in leading and developing a team of colleagues
• Be prepared to work towards KPIs in a fast-paced environment

Package Description

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About the Company

Card Factory is the UK’s leading specialist retailer of greetings cards, dressings, and gifts with over one thousand stores across the UK and Ireland.  In 2020 we launched our exciting 5-year business strategy including our vision of becoming a true Omni-channel retailer.  This strategy sees significant investment into our colleagues across the business creating multiple opportunities to join a fast-paced environment and be part of our exciting journey. 

In return, we offer a wide range of benefits to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.

Benefits

• Pension
• 15% Card Factory colleague discount in-store and online
• Save As You Earn scheme
• Financial Wellbeing Support
  • Financial Education Tools
  • Salary Advance
• Seasonal incentive schemes
• Retail Management Apprenticeship Programmes with local providers with access to a virtual internal network for learning together
• Discounted gym membership, mobile phone contracts, and car leasing
• Discounts across 100’s of UK retailers
• Employee Assistance Programme – access to tools to support mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption leave

This is an exciting role with genuine prospects for the right candidate. If this role describes you and your career aspirations, click apply now.

For any questions email: vacancies@cardfactory.co.uk (we do not accept CVs/Applications via email)

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once sufficient suitable applications have been received. We advise applying early to avoid disappointment as applications will be reviewed regularly.

No agencies, please.

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Sportswift Ltd T/A Card Factory

Job ref: 312596

Starting salary of £23,290 (£11.75 per hour) increasing to £25,679 (£12.95 per hour), on completion of 6 month probation period. Plus, an additional supplement of £824 per annum pro rota, nightshift allowance and excellent benefits (based on a 38 hour full time week).

You could earn a total package of circa £30,000 per annum, including excellent benefits (based on a 38 hour full time week with overtime).

Contract Type: Fixed Term

Working hours: 38 Full time hours per week with opportunity for overtime. Typical attendance is Monday to Friday, 15:00 - 22:36.

Location: Parcelforce Worldwide Inverness, Inverness, IV1 1AD

The Benefits

• Medical Care including eye and dental care
• Opportunity to increase earnings by working extra hours
• Company pension scheme
• 4.5 weeks annual holiday entitlement, increasing with service
• Option to purchase additional leave direct from pay
• Career development opportunities
• Free full Uniform supplied
• Corporate discounts

At Parcelforce Worldwide it’s not just what we do, it’s how we do it that matters. That’s why we’re looking for reliable Warehouse Sorters to join our fast-paced team.

About the role

As one of our Warehouse Sorters, you’ll load and unload vehicles; scanning and labelling parcels quickly and efficiently, making sure every single package leaves our processing centre on time and in perfect condition. In return, you’ll get a rewarding role including best-in-industry benefits.

Driving Licence Requirements

It’s essential that you have a full manual driving licence (in your current address) covering up to 3.5 tonnes (Cat B). In an ideal world you’ll have a clean licence but it definitely shouldn’t have more than 6 penalty points. And, just so you know, you’ll be required to show your licence at your assessment.

About you

As someone who is positive and practical, you’ll enjoy the hands-on nature of this role. It’s vital that you have good attention to detail and you’ll also need to be able to lift and carry parcels weighing up to 30kg (that’s equivalent to 30 litres of water).

About us

Parcelforce Worldwide provides express parcel delivery across the UK. We employ over 5,500 people and operate across a network of 54 depots throughout the UK. Our intelligent use of technology helps ensure we stay one-step ahead, and everyone that works for us has the responsibility to create a smooth and efficient service. We are always thinking ahead, and we’re always looking for friendly and committed people to join our diverse and supportive team.

Interested? We can’t wait to hear from you.

Trust is important to everything we do in Parcelforce. We want to build that trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview; and we mean your interview. We want to give you the opportunity to present us with your best examples. As a result, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place, to allow you time to prepare in advance. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and what a job with Parcelforce entails. Trust on the doorstep starts with you.

Please note once our maximum number of applications has been reached, this advert will be closed.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/

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We are looking for a Warehouse Supervisor who will be provide appropriate management, direction, and supervision of our backshift team.

WHO ARE WE?
Our client, Williamson Foodservice, is a good natured business who specialise in fresh and chilled food and drink. They are proud of their family heritage and have been nurturing and inspiring generations for 65 years. They are a passionate and dedicated team who strive to deliver a first class service to every customer, every time.

Their people are what make them special. They have ambitious plans and need enthusiastic individuals who will thrive on being a company ambassador and want to help them achieve their vision to ‘Take freshness further’. They offer jobs and careers filled with purpose.

THE ROLE
You will be responsible for effective and efficient operation of our services, health and safety compliance, order processing, security of premises and stockholding, loading management and the allocation of delivery vehicles.

This is a full-time and permanent role with a basic requirement to work 37.5 hour per week. Backshift start and finish times may vary but are typically 10:00 – 18:00, 12:00 – 20:00 or 14:00 – 22:00. Hours are worked 5 days out of 7. Hours may be subject to change to meet operational requirements.

IS THIS YOU?
Our client wants people who are down to earth and with a good work ethic. To be part of their incredible team, you must:

• Take pride in all that you do.
• Carry out everything to the highest standard.
• Never compromise on safety.
• Be part of the wider team.
• Deliver phenomenal customer service.
• Do what’s required to get the job done.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• To ensure the backshift team are working efficiently and effectively, and consistently adhere to timekeeping and other company stipulations.
• To encourage and maintain effective teamwork.
• Monitor the performance of the team through department KPI’s.
• Follow policies and procedures in relation to employees, as and when required.
• Conform with the company’s procedures and parameters including those for the control, rotation and movements of stock.
• Ensuring orders are picked, packed and loaded on to vehicles as accurately, competently and as quickly as possible.
• Effectively communicate with the team to dissemination relevant information and providing them with appropriate guidance and support, eg through daily toolbox talks/huddles.
• Identify areas of concern in internal operations and opportunities for improvement in all back-shift activities.
• Acting as a nominated “keyholder” on the shift with responsibility for security of the premises, personnel, stock and vehicles during the shift.
• Visually check all company vehicles during the shift to ensure they remain roadworthy, legally compliant and are not over-loaded.
• Produce relevant statistical information on stock levels and other pertinent information.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

• Good discount on our food and drink.
• Fair pay for a fair day’s work.
• Full training and development.
• Career progression opportunities.
• Company pension scheme.
• Take time to chill with 5.6 weeks annual holiday.
• The comfort and warmth of a family business.

WANT TO APPLY?
Is our clinet a good fit for you? If yes, please get in touch for a friendly chat on 01463 236600 or send a covering letter and an up to date CV to Bruce Storrier (bruce.storrier@williamsonfoodservice.co.uk)

CLOSING DATE:
9th June 2024
Applications received after this date may not be considered.

DIVERSITY
We strive to be representative of the community in which we serve and know that diverse talent makes a better team. We ensure our recruitment practices are fair and equal and that opportunities are open to all, regardless of gender, background or identity.

We reserve the right to alter this Job Description to reflect changes to the requirements of the post or the services offered. Additional ad-hoc duties/tasks may be required as and when.

Age UK is recruiting! We have a fantastic opportunity for a Store Manager to join our friendly and supportive Barnet team.

Utilising your previous retail experience and excellent managerial skills, you will manage the day to day running of our store - maximising store sales and profits while ensuring our customers receive an excellent service. In doing so, you will be helping to raise funds for Age UK and the incredible services and support they provide to older people.

As Store Manager, you will manage our brilliant team of staff and volunteers, providing effective leadership, training, and development.

If you are a motivated manager with a passion for retail and would like to use your skills to support a charity that helps thousands of older people across the UK, this may be the role for you!

Due to the nature of this role, you will be required to handle/lift bags of stock (up to 10kgs.)

You will have:

• Experience in a performance driven retail/customer centric environment
• Experience of managing people
• Ability to lift and carry bags of stock up to 10kg's
• Ability to build, retain and develop a team
• Strong drive to achieve results through others
• Ability to delegate, coach and listen
• Ability to manage time under conflicting priorities
• Ability to motivate self and others
• An open and adaptable approach to change and be able to support others through it
• Experience of communicating with a diverse workforce and customer base
• Ability to establish and maintain successful retail processes and merchandising
• IT literacy and numeracy skills

What we offer in return:

• A 35 hour working week
• 25 days holiday + bank holiday allowance
• A generous pension - we will contribute 8%
• Great discounts and rewards through Blue Light Card and BenefitHub
• Life assurance, Bupa health cashback plan
• Tickets for Good - Free and discounted tickets for events

Additional Information

To comply with UK legislation, we cannot accept applications from candidates under the age of 18 as the successful candidate will be required to work on their own in the shop without the aid of other staff.

All CVs will be anonymised by our recruitment system when you apply for a role at Age UK. Please note that our system is unable to anonymise cover letters, and we would therefore ask that to support the work we are doing on making our recruitment selection process fairer and more unbiased, that you remove any personal information from your cover letter/supporting statement, including your name before uploading this. All equalities monitoring information is also anonymised and not shared with the hiring panel. Your name and address will only be known to us once you are invited for an interview.

Is this the job for you? We know that men, of all backgrounds, and men and women from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds are currently under-represented in our workforce, and we want to change this! So, we are particularly keen to hear from applicants from these groups.

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.

Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria under the Disability Confident Scheme. Please note that on occasion, due to high numbers of applications, Age UK reserves the right to limit the overall number of interviews offered, and therefore, it may not always be practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job.

Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.

Job Introduction

Store Location: Inverness RP

Store Hours: 42.5

With a real focus on customer experience and colleague development, our Store Managers are key to driving the success of our stores. As a store manager, you will be responsible for delivering commercial growth and developing a team culture of putting the customer at the heart of everything we do.

Role Responsibility

• You will have overall responsibility for the running of the store, focusing on customer experience, colleague development, and delivering commercial growth in line with our 5-year strategy.
• Putting the customer at the heart of everything we do you will develop a team of colleagues who live and breathe our customer promise and actively seek ways to delight our customers.
• You will coach, train and develop colleagues within your store harnessing their strengths and building on development areas.
• Be proactive in recruiting a team of Assistant Managers, Team Leaders, and Sales Assistants that reflect our values, behaviours with the required skill set to meet our business needs.
• Make commercial decisions around stock availability and merchandising.
• Actively seek contact with key stakeholders to gain a wider understanding of the business
• Providing constructive and beneficial feedback to the store team, District and Regional Managers around store performance and business opportunities to encourage continual growth.

The Ideal Candidate

• You will be as passionate about celebrating our customers’ life moments as we are
• Have previous experience as a store manager within a retail environment working collaboratively with wider stakeholders across the business
• Have experience in leading and developing a team of colleagues
• Be prepared to work towards KPIs in a fast-paced environment

Package Description

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About the Company

Card Factory is the UK’s leading specialist retailer of greetings cards, dressings, and gifts with over one thousand stores across the UK and Ireland.  In 2020 we launched our exciting 5-year business strategy including our vision of becoming a true Omni-channel retailer.  This strategy sees significant investment into our colleagues across the business creating multiple opportunities to join a fast-paced environment and be part of our exciting journey. 

In return, we offer a wide range of benefits to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.

Benefits

• Pension
• 15% Card Factory colleague discount in-store and online
• Save As You Earn scheme
• Financial Wellbeing Support
  • Financial Education Tools
  • Salary Advance
• Seasonal incentive schemes
• Retail Management Apprenticeship Programmes with local providers with access to a virtual internal network for learning together
• Discounted gym membership, mobile phone contracts, and car leasing
• Discounts across 100’s of UK retailers
• Employee Assistance Programme – access to tools to support mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption leave

This is an exciting role with genuine prospects for the right candidate. If this role describes you and your career aspirations, click apply now.

For any questions email: vacancies@cardfactory.co.uk (we do not accept CVs/Applications via email)

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once sufficient suitable applications have been received. We advise applying early to avoid disappointment as applications will be reviewed regularly.

No agencies, please.

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Sportswift Ltd T/A Card Factory

Here at Edinburgh Woollen Mill we have a fantastic opportunity for an Assistant Store Manager at our Inverness Store.
If you would like to be part of a forward-thinking business and have a job with excellent career prospects, we would love to hear from you.
As well as being part of an exciting and dynamic team you will also have the opportunity to gain an industry recognised qualification within your first 18 months of you wish to do so.
As an Assistant Store Manager we are looking for a well rounded and commercial retail manager who is proactive in their approach and can work using their own initiative, fashion retail experience desirable however not essential as full training provided. The ideal candidate will have previous experience either in management or supervision of personnel within a retail outlet.
As Assistant Store Manager, you will be expected to:
•Assist the manager in the day to day operation of the store whilst ensuring costs are contained within targets.
•Maximize store profitability by promoting sales within the store.
•Ensure that a high level of customer service is delivered at all times.
•Manage, coach and motivate the team to deliver to all targets and lead by example.
•Deputize for the manager when necessary.
The ideal candidate will have:
•Commercial awareness
•Excellent leadership credentials
•An ability to drive sales through your team
•Good training and development capabilities
•Desire to progress within our ever-growing business

Our client has an excellent opportunity for an experienced Purchasing Manager to join their team in Inverness.

The Purchasing Manager will be responsible for developing and implementing a purchasing strategy to support sales growth, the management of cash flow and increased profitability. They will also lead, motivate, engage and develop a purchasing team to ensure the most effective service is in place to support the needs of the business. Duties include:

Build strong and effective relationships with key suppliers to ensure they are aware of our business objectives and understand our business needs.
Agree and set out service level agreements with key suppliers and monitor purchase order timescales to ensure agreed price, rebate and timescale terms are being met.
Undertake profitability reviews of existing contracts and re-negotiate or amend as required.
Working in conjunction with managers and buyers, research and ascertain the best products available to meet customer requirements ensuring best value, quality and delivery times and, where possible, have a product range that means the business is a ‘one stop shop’.
Liaise regularly with the Showroom and Branch Managers and Product Managers to understand product ranges, identify missing stock items and be aware of customer or staff feedback regarding products.
Be aware of and understand the requirements and terms of relevant buying groups.
Attend seminars and trade conferences to ensure awareness of up-to-date trends, products and suppliers.

Through discussion with managers throughout the business to understand their specific requirements, be able to influence product distribution and ensure that the Company’s inventory management strategy maximises sales order fulfilment, reduces stock holding and improves stock accuracy.
Maintain an overall view of stock levels, working with buyers and product managers to minimise surplus stocks, ensure the removal of obsolete raw materials and ensure that old stock is managed out of the business in a timely manner at maximum value.
Ensure that inventory management processes with respect to ordering and purchasing of stocks, are effective monitoring system exception reports to ensure timely clearance of issues.
Manage control measures to ensure mistakes, inaccuracies and discrepancies and highlighted, addressed and resolved.
Ensure exception reports are actioned and buying parameters are maintained and corrected.
Analyse supplier performance and produce reports and statistics on spending and cost saving.
Provide agreed reports, data and narrative to the Senior Management Team on a monthly basis.
Lead, coach and develop the purchasing team to ensure the best use of individual skills.
Set clearly defined objectives, conduct annual appraisals and identify training needs for the team.
Set product purchasing authority levels and ensure each team member is aware of those levels.
Ensure that the purchasing team advise internal and external sales teams of additional billing costs for services such as carriage and packing.
Ensure that the purchasing team respond in a timely and effective manner to all enquiries from suppliers and internal and external sales teams.

Person Specification
Be a highly commercial manager able to communicate effectively at all levels within the organisation and with proven experience in managing a team with the ability to motivate and engage them.
Proven experience in a similar role and able to demonstrate significant understanding of purchasing/inventory processes, measures and controls.
Possess excellent communication skills and have the ability to negotiate effectively with suppliers and colleagues.
Have a detailed understanding of Economic Order Quantity ordering.
Adopts a highly analytical and methodical approach with high attention to detail and the ability to solve problems.
Excellent IT skills.
Membership of a recognised Purchasing body.
Prior knowledge of a similar organisation and/or industrial products.

Castle View Personnel (Inverness) Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers.
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Our client is looking to appoint a Purchase Ledger Assistant to join their Finance Department in Inverness. The purpose of the role is to assist the team with invoices, queries, reconciliations, and payments and key responsibilities include:

Daily contact by telephone, email or in person, with other team members and work colleagues from other departments and branches.
Daily contact with suppliers by telephone and e-mail.
Process Vendor Credit Applications requests from different departments.
Print and ensure all invoices once printed are scanned.
Check /posting invoices with accuracy (with exclusion of expenditure invoices) for payment, including matching up invoices with our purchase orders and liaising with the relevant department(s) within the business.
Ensure all invoices are correctly calculated (including VAT) and sufficiently detailed and meet standard set out in purchase ledger procedures.
Check goods received with invoices on accrual.
Reconcile suppliers’ statements monthly.
Investigate internal and external queries.
Archiving of invoices.
Payment of proforma invoices and others.
Answer incoming calls.
Contribute to continuous improvement of procedures to improve efficiency of the function and the department through the development of relationships with own team members and other departments.
Adhere to quality processes and procedures.
Monitor own progress towards business and individual objectives.

Person Specification
Sound organisational and administrative skills, including managing time effectively.
The ability to deal confidently with people with clear and effective communication skills both verbally and in writing.
Good numeracy skills, IT literacy and experience of Microsoft packages.
Proactive, enthusiastic, self-motivated.
Ability to prioritise and multitask.
Responsible and reliable with a flexible attitude.
Previous accounting experience
Good customer service skills when dealing with customers and colleagues.
The ability to work with minimal supervision and make decisions relevant to the successful outcome and conclusion of the processes.
Ability to respond positively to new challenges and change.

Benefits
Accredited Living Wage Employer.
Monday to Friday working hours.
Employee discount.
Cycle to work scheme.
Discretionary annual bonus, based on company performance.
Extra holidays (after one year).

For more information please respond by email or contact Castle View Personnel on 01463 230 200.

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Job Description Summary

Kohl’s mission is to inspire and empower families to lead fulfilled lives; you are at the forefront for bringing this into action. You will create a first-class omnichannel experience by promoting a hospitality mentality in all areas of the store for Kohl’s Customers and Associates. You will play a large part in driving store sales and profit by ensuring customer satisfaction and brand standards through the hiring, training and development of associates in customer engagement, operations and merchandise presentation.

Job Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Recruit, interview and hire talent
• Collaborate with the store executive team to develop and execute associate retention strategies
• Foster a collaborative and engaged environment, addressing and managing associate concerns
• Communicate and educate associates on key priorities to support Sales, Service and Loyalty
• Continuously develop and coach all associates, including appraising their performance for the purpose of recommending and executing on promotions or other changes in position
• Ensure associates adherence to Kohl’s policies and procedures
• Create a hospitality mentality among all associates on the sales floor, creating a best in class customer experience
• Maintain a customer-ready store environment, ensuring associates are responsible for maintaining high standards of recovery and merchandising
• Make informed decisions to support store expense management (e.g. payroll, productivity, shortage)
• Assist and guide associates on the point of commerce process
• Lead the execution on all merchandising directives
• Demonstrate product knowledge, understanding customer demand and merchandising best practices to recommend selection and placement
• Collaborate with fellow store executives to identify trends and opportunities to make business recommendations
• Assess and allocate resources to support business and workload demands
• Control the flow of merchandise by ensuring associates are replenishing merchandise, making products readily available to customers
• Exercise good judgment and discretion in making necessary management decisions

As an Assistant Store Manager, you are a part of the store executive team and will be in charge of one or more departments as well as various functional areas throughout the store. The performance of your key responsibilities is necessary to the success of the store. You will also have a significant role in leading associate development as well as assessing and evolving your own development. The manner in which you perform these responsibilities will vary depending upon on many factors, including the store at which you work, the composition of the store team, the departments or areas that you oversee and your experience. This is a salaried, full-time position; the number of hours may vary from week to week.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

REQUIRED

• Multiple years experience managing a significant retail volume in a fast paced customer service environment
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop a large team of associates
• Anticipate challenges and obstacles developing solutions to these problems
• Experience working in a fast paced and changing environment
• Experience working with all levels of management, building partnerships
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to multi-task
• Open and close the store on an as needed basis
• Ability to occasionally work overnight

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to lift 50 pounds on an occasional to frequent basis
• Ability to spend up to 100% of work time standing or moving about the sales floor
• Physical activity includes bending, stopping, lifting, climbing, carrying, walking and/or reaching on a frequent basis