DRUG-GEN MDSE/CLERK

Fred Meyer, Inc.; Bend (OR); On-site; USD 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Fred Meyer is seeking a customer-focused associate to create an outstanding shopping experience in a fast-paced environment. You will assist management in reaching department goals while maintaining safety, cleanliness, and QA standards.

Your role emphasizes respectful service, product knowledge, and helping customers find items and samples as needed. You will answer questions, suggest products, stock merchandise, monitor dates, and report issues to management.

Qualifications

• Ability to handle stressful situations with composure and professionalism.
• Knowledge of basic math to assist with transactions and inventory.
• Ability to respond to customer questions and suggest products.
• Follow safety procedures and maintain a clean, organized environment.

Responsibilities

• Create an outstanding customer experience through service and interaction.
• Assist the department manager in achieving sales and profit goals.
• Maintain a safe, clean environment and enforce QA standards.
• Answer questions about products and make recommendations.
• Label, stock and inventory department merchandise, and monitor dates.
• Report discrepancies to the department manager and communicate safety concerns.

Skills

Customer service

Stress management

Product knowledge

Teamwork

Communication

Job description

Position Summary

Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service. Establish and maintain a safe and clean environment that encourages our customers to return. Assist the department manager in reaching sales and profit goals established for the department, and monitor all established quality assurance standards. Embrace the Customer 1 st strategy and encourage associates to deliver excellent customer service. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety of others.

• Ability to handle stressful situations
• Knowledge of basic math
• Create an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important and appreciated by answering questions regarding products sold within the department and throughout the store.
• Gain and maintain knowledge of products sold within the department and be able to respond to questions and make suggestions about products.
• Offer product samples to help customers discover new items or products they inquire about.
• Inform customers of Drug GM specials.
• Recommend Drug GM items to customers to ensure they get the products they want and need.
• Review "sell by" dates and take appropriate action.
• Label, stock and inventory department merchandise.
• Report product ordering/shipping discrepancies to the department manager.
• Display a positive attitude.
• Stay current with present, future, seasonal and special ads.
• Reinforce safety programs by complying with safety procedures and identify unsafe conditions and notify store management.
• Practice preventive maintenance by properly inspecting equipment and notify appropriate department or store manager of any items in need of repair.
• Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
• Report all safety risk, or issues, and illegal activity, including: robbery, theft or fraud.
• Ability to work cooperatively in high paced and sometimes stressful environment.
• Ability to manage conflict in a reasonable, nonconfrontational and cooperative manner.
• Ability to act with honesty and integrity regarding customer and business information.
• Ability to follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues.
• Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and/or older adults.
• Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.