Job Summary
Oversees and coordinates customer service, merchandising, inventory control, and other related activities for a small gift shop located in the White River Medical Center. Schedules, leads, and oversees the day-to-day activities of Volunteer Service Associates and/or other support staff engaged in routine stock management and customer service activities. Provides input into operating budgets and provides leadership in the general marketing of the enterprise.
Job Duties:
- Oversees, coordinates, and performs computerized cash register sales transactions and cash management.
- Supervise Volunteers which typically includes recommendations of performance evaluation, training, work allocation, and problem resolution.
- Assists with the development and implementation of operating budgets, policies, and procedures consistent with those of the organization.
- Provides sales coordination and problem resolution for floor volunteer service staff; performs direct sales and customer service as and when required.
- Allocates and schedules work within the area, ensuring that all floor requirements are covered during operating hours; fills in for volunteers as required during breaks and other absences.
- Monitors sales through the cash register; resolves discrepancies, prepares, reconciles, and records cash receipts for deposit, and prepares sales reports.
- Monitors and coordinates ordering, receipt, and return of merchandise and/or equipment; verifies invoices and billing and resolves errors and discrepancies; as appropriate, coordinates shipping and/or delivery of merchandise to customers.
- Oversees area stock and visual merchandising; participates in the development and implementation of on-floor sales promotion campaigns.
- Participates in the establishment and implementation of general marketing plans and programs for the gift shop.
- Monitors general housekeeping cleanliness within the area; ensures that equipment and facilities remain in good repair, and that employee and customer safety standards are maintained.
- Performs other duties as assigned by supervision.
- Develop and maintain the online ordering for the gift shop.
Qualifications
- Education: High school diploma or GED
- Training and Experience: at least two years of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified.
- Cash management principles and/or procedures.
- Mathematics
- Customer service standards and procedures.
- Retail stock management and control principles and procedures.
- Retail floor sales techniques
- Retail advertising, sales promotion and/or visual merchandising techniques
- Basic fiscal and personnel management principles
Essentials:
- Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
- Analyze and solve problems.
- Read, understand, follow, and enforce safety procedures.
- Summarize and reconcile retail sales and operating statistics, and to prepare routine statistical reports.
- Supervise and train employees, to include organizing, prioritizing, and scheduling work assignment.
- Operate a computerized cash register.
- Foster a cooperative work environment.
- Employee development and performance management skills.
- Must be able to report to work fit for duty and free of any adverse effects of illegal drugs, medical marijuana, prescription medication, and/or alcohol.
- Must be able to effectively communicate both orally and in writing with other individuals.
Physical Demands:
- Moderate physical activity. Requires handling of average-weight objects up to 25 pounds or standing and/or walking for more than four (4) hours per day.
- Must be able to bend, twist, pull and push, and utilize a stepladder.
- Must be able to unload and unbox and place merchandise.
- Work is normally performed in a typical interior/office work environment.
Location: White River Health · *WRMC-Volunteer
Schedule: Full-time, Days, M-F 8am - 5pm