Job Summary of General Merchandise Associate:
Responsible for delivering excellent customer service by actively engaging and assisting customers, embodying customer experience principles, and maintaining a tidy store environment, while following operational, merchandise, and loss prevention protocols.
Responsibilities of General Merchandise Associate:
- Role models established customer experience practices with internal and external customers
- Supports and embodies a positive store culture through honesty, integrity, and respect
- Accurately rings customer purchases/returns and counts change back to customer according to established operating procedures
- Promotes credit and loyalty programs during customer interactions
- Maintains and upholds merchandising philosophy and follows established merchandising procedures and standards
- Accurately processes and prepares merchandise for the sales floor following company procedures and standards
- Initiates and participates in store recovery as needed throughout the day
- Maintains all organizational, cleanliness, and recovery standards for the sales floor and participates in the maintenance/cleanliness of the entire store
- Provides and accepts ongoing recognition and constructive feedback
- Adheres to all labor laws, policies, and procedures
- Supports and participates in store shrink reduction goals and programs
- Participates in safety awareness and maintenance of a risk-free environment
- Performs other duties as assigned
Requirements of General Merchandise Associate:
- Possesses a great talent for creating positive customer experiences
- Willing to shift schedule flexibility to accommodate business priorities
- Exhibits outstanding organizational abilities along with a careful focus on particulars
- Proficient at multitasking effectively
- Exhibits adeptness in responding to alterations in direction or unforeseen events, underpinned by robust communication skills
- Adept at carrying substantial objects with or without the need for adjustments
- Effectively interacts with peers and supervisors to accomplish shared tasks
- Consumers lean towards enjoying a well-crafted retail customer experience