Company Store Inventory/Pricing Team Lead

Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats; Town of Wittenberg (WI); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Meats is seeking a Company Store Inventory/Pricing Lead in Wittenberg, WI. This role combines on-floor leadership with inventory, pricing, and reporting duties to ensure an exceptional customer experience.

You will manage purchase orders, receipts, and invoices, while maintaining price accuracy and inventory data in the Cloud POS system. As a hands-on leader, you will guide 5–15 team members, support training, and generate monthly inventory and sales reports to inform

Qualifications

• Prior retail experience and/or training.
• Advanced computer proficiency in Windows/Word/Excel/Outlook/PowerPoint, internet research and POS systems.

Responsibilities

• Create and submit purchase orders for vendors, ensuring inventory targets.
• Receive and verify POs and invoices with a 24-hour turnaround.
• Maintain item data and pricing in Cloud POS system; update regularly.
• Perform daily, weekly, monthly price maintenance.
• Lead 5–15 employees, coordinating daily operations and providing feedback.

Skills

Retail experience

Prog. computer skills

Tools

POS systems

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Title: Company Store Inventory/Pricing Lead

Market Title: Company Store Inventory/Pricing Lead

Location: Wittenberg WI

Status: Regular Full-Time

FLSA: Non-Exempt

Job Summary

This position is responsible for providing our customers with an excellent shopping experience, as well as an on-floor presence and leadership throughout the day for store team members. Product and pricing duties include system setup of vendors and store items, product purchase orders, receiving processes, inventory stocking and cycle counts and invoice reconciliation. Report creation is required as directed on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis for key inventory elements. This lead position will also include normal “hands on” store duties as needed.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

All duties will include both Nueske’s Company Store and Schoolhouse Market Gift Shop.

These duties are not meant to be all-inclusive and other duties may be assigned.

• Create and submit purchase orders for vendors, ensuring desired inventory target levels. Communicate with internal and external business partners.
• Perform or assist in receiving duties for Company Store purchase orders including check-in process and verifying packing slip and invoice accuracy.
• Process and reconcile invoices within a 24-hour turnaround from delivery to system verification to submission.
• Maintain item information for cost and pricing records in Cloud POS system. Assist management in creation and updating regularly.
• Daily, weekly, monthly price maintenance.
• Analyze product selling trends and forecast future sales curves. Present purchase order and inventory recommendations to management.
• In charge of all in-store signage. Both display and creation of signs.
• Conduct weekly cycle counts on store items to ensure accurate inventory numbers and levels.
• Generate assigned month-end reports after ensuring that all receiving, adjustments and refund processes have been completed.
• Create sales and item movement reports as requested by management.
• Assists in leading 5-15 employees to include planning, assigning, and directing work; monitoring tasks to ensure they are done in a timely manner. Communicate directions to the team and provides direct feedback and support to store management.
• Support training initiatives to ensure that outstanding customer service is provided to every customer. Communicate identified training or observed customer service gaps to management.
• Assists management to determine best practice for processes, work assignments, and prioritize work to enhance the customer experience. Ensures leadership coverage throughout daily operation including opening and closing of the building and all related processes.
• Supports the execution of processes, work routines, assignments focused on staff development and continued growth directed by management.
• Possess high ability to anticipate customer needs and the demands of a fast‑paced retail environment.

Minimum Qualifications

• Prior retail experience and/or training required.
• Advanced computer proficiency in Windows/Word/Excel/Outlook/PowerPoint, internet research and POS systems required.

Physical Requirements

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly must sit and stand. The employee often must walk. The employee occasionally must climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 30 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities needed by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions and working in coolers below 40 degrees F. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Nueske’s Culture Elements

• Communicate Effectively
• Be Caring
• Be Engaged
• Be Quality Minded
• Be Responsible
• Share the Why

Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Meats provides equal opportunity in all our employment practices to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local laws. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including recruitment, hiring, compensation, promotion, transfer, disciplinary action, layoff, return from layoff, training, and social, and recreational programs. All such employment decisions will be made based upon the merits of the employee/application and without unlawfully discriminating on any prohibited basis.

Day Shift