APPAREL/LEAD CLERK

Kroger; Parker (CO); On-site; USD 19,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Kroger in Parker, CO is seeking an apparel department associate responsible for ordering, stocking merchandise, and maintaining displays, signage, and fixtures. You will train and direct associates in the Home section, perform customer service functions, and help maximize store sales safely and ethically per company policies.

The role includes coordinating merchandising, managing inventory, and supporting staff during peak times.

Qualifications

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Flexible schedule including mornings, afternoons, evenings, and weekends as needed.
• Ability to read and interpret safety rules and manuals.
• Effective written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to handle stressful situations calmly.
• Experience in production, merchandising or customer service related to sale of merchandise.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates and ensures compliance with customer service actions.
• Stock displays with new or back-stock merchandise.
• Retains signing, recovery and merchandising standards.
• Maintains planograms and signage as directed.
• Coordinate merchandising and organization of the section.
• Process inventory counts and ensure on-hand integrity.
• Engage with customers and sell products; improve store sales.
• Perform cashier functions when required.
• Assist in prompts for promotions, price changes and ads.

Skills

Customer service

Merchandising

Stocking

Inventory control

Tools

Pallet jack

Forklift

Box cutters

Label guns

Job description

Job Description

Responsible for ordering, stocking merchandise and maintaining the assigned section of the apparel department, and maintaining fixtures, displays, and signing. This position is also responsible for the training, coaching and directing all associates that work within their specific area of the Home sections. Perform production and customer service functions; maximize store sales and profits safely and ethically in accordance with company policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates, recognizes and ensures compliance with Customer service actions. Ensures compliance with the following:
• Stock displays with new or back-stock merchandise.
• Divisional signing, recovery and merchandising standards
• Ticketing standards
• Corporate policies
• Planograms and composites
• Shrink control guidelines
• Coordinates and organizes merchandising of the section.
• Ensures on-hand integrity, RMS updates as needed.
• Builds and maintains vendor relationships.
• Receives and processes freight.
• Performs inventory control functions as required. Ensures ads and promotions are set to standard.
• Processes salvage.Prepares for physical inventory as directed. Processes returns/exchanges.
• Conducts stock counts.
• Builds ends and displays.
• Maintains an awareness of current market trends.
• Reacts with urgency to changing sales opportunities.
• Processes product deletions.
• Ensures accuracy and follows up on price changes.
• Engages with Customers and sells products to customers.
• Sells products to Customers; teaches/demonstrates selling skills.
• Participates in mandatory training programs.
• Performs cashier functions, when required.
• Processes mail. Maintains an awareness of overstock/understock conditions to ensure ordering system integrity.
• Responds to verbal Customer comments/complaints.
• Assists in the inventory process.
• Writes Intersection Transfers.
• Manages P & L responsibilities, seasonal sets.
• Processes mismates.
• Perform any and all duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Willing to be flexible and work mornings, afternoons, evenings, and nights as the work demands.
• Willing and available to work weekends and holidays as needed.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
• Effective written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to make intelligent decisions quickly.
• Able to tactfully and calmly handle stressful situations and make a positive impression on associates and customers.
• Possess abilities and skills for effective production, merchandising, and customer services related to sale of merchandise.
• Qualified and able to operate power machinery and work with various job tools, (Pallet jack, Forklift, compactors, box cutters, label guns, etc.)

Desired

• Related retail work experience.
• Familiarity with apparel sales terms and processes.
• Past work record reflects dependability and integrity.