Department Manager

Shoppers Stop; Shillong; On-site; INR 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Shoppers Stop in Shillong, Meghalaya seeks a store operations professional to drive inventory management, customer care, and merchandising execution.

You will map stock flow from receiving to floor, coordinate stock takes, ensure displays, and maintain service standards. You will also analyze data and report on performance, pilferage, and customer feedback to improve store efficiency.

This role requires coordinating with supervisors, planning VM, and addressing complaints within timelines.

Responsibilities

• Identifies parameters to track competition
• Builds resources and databases of information on an ongoing basis by networking
• Creates an index and updates it
• Does process mapping for movement of stocks from receiving bay to floor
• Initiates stock-takes as per the agreed and laid down procedure
• Ensures effective displays with the objective of achieving greater number of stock turns
• Plans for perpetual inventory
• Ensures customers are guided to enable them to avail of value added services like gift-wrapping, alterations, exchanges & other conveniences
• Sets up processes/initiates plans to build for moments of magic, avoid customer complaints & grievances
• Sets up mechanism for recording of verbal complaints / suggestions
• Ensures collation of data on customer complaints / suggestions and circulates it to relevant people
• Ensures in service recovery within agreed time-line (72 hours)
• Ensures customers queries are addressed and complaints / grievances are resolved (I.e. moments of misery are converted into moments of magic)
• Anticipates shifts in customer entry pattern and directs supervisors to schedule CCA availability accordingly
• Understands the Visual Merchandising plan and customer buying process and translates the VM plan to match local needs and as per stock availability
• Communicates the above to supervisors
• Creates display plan of merchandise for his sections on the basis of underlying principles
• Communicates the display plan and the underlying principles to the supervisors for the purpose of execution
• Analyzes available data, identifies causes and suggests solutions
• Identifies all reports that need to be generated with frequency, schedules and identifies sources of information
• Ensures compliance
• Identifies most pilfered products and common methods of pilferage

Job description

• Works out action plans/tactics to match requirement

Competition mapping

• Identifies parameters to track competition
• Builds resources and databases of information on an ongoing basis by networking
• Creates an index and updates it

Inventory Management

• Does process mapping for movement of stocks from receiving bay to floor
• Initiates stock-takes as per the agreed and laid down procedure
• Ensures effective displays with the objective of achieving greater number of stock turns
• Plans for perpetual inventory

Customer care/customer service

• Ensures customers are guided to enable them to avail of value added services like gift-wrapping, alterations, exchanges & other conveniences
• Sets up processes/initiates plans to build for moments of magic, avoid customer complaints & grievances
• Sets up mechanism for recording of verbal complaints / suggestions
• Ensures collation of data on customer complaints / suggestions and circulates it to relevant people
• Ensures in service recovery within agreed time-line (72 hours)
• Ensures customers queries are addressed and complaints / grievances are resolved (I.e. moments of misery are converted into moments of magic)
• Anticipates shifts in customer entry pattern and directs supervisors to schedule CCA availability accordingly
• Understands the Visual Merchandising plan and customer buying process and translates the VM plan to match local needs and as per stock availability
• Communicates the above to supervisors

Arrangement of stock in space allocated as per plan

• Creates display plan of merchandise for his sections on the basis of underlying principles
• Communicates the display plan and the underlying principles to the supervisors for the purpose of execution

Analysis and reporting

• Analyzes available data, identifies causes and suggests solutions
• Identifies all reports that need to be generated with frequency, schedules and identifies sources of information
• Ensures compliance
• Identifies most pilfered products and common methods of pilferage