Furniture Team Lead New Horizons Thrift Store

Fremont Economic Development Corporation; Colorado; On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Medical Leave

Life Insurance

Optional Health Benefits

Paid Vacation

Paid vacation after 30 days

Job summary

A community development agency in Colorado is looking for a Furniture Team Lead to oversee warehouse operations and sales. The role involves leading a team, managing donation processes, and ensuring excellent guest service. Ideal candidates will have strong leadership, listening, and organizational skills. Benefits include overtime pay, medical leave, and paid vacation accruement. Candidates seeking a full-time position are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• Experience in leadership or warehouse management is preferred.
• Ability to lead a team, organize tasks, and interact with guests.
• Familiarity with pricing, donation handling, and sales floor upkeep.

Responsibilities

• Lead the furniture team, ensuring a neat and organized warehouse.
• Treat guests with care and patience.
• Research pricing and sell donated items efficiently.
• Ensure donations are received and processed correctly.

Skills

Active Listening

Learning Strategies

Reading Comprehension

Speaking

Writing

Coordination

Instructing

Negotiation

Service Orientation

Social Perceptiveness

Equipment Selection

Operation and Control

Quality Control Analysis

Management of Personnel Resources

Time Management

Spreadsheets

Navigation

Word Processing

Lead Tasks

Lead People

Job description

Responsibility Statement

As a Furniture Team Lead you are expected to embrace the vision of NHM as outlined by the BOD and Executive Director. Using leadership in your role, you would then ensure the implementation of that vision within your realm of influence in the organization.

The Furniture Team Lead is responsible for treating guests with care and patience as they lead the warehouse and furniture team, receive donations, and make sure the warehouse and sales floor are neat and organized.

Additional tasks may be assigned at times by your supervisor. Consideration will be given to your current workload and duties.

Key Result Areas

LMA: Provide leadership, management, and accountability for the following direct reports,

• FurnitureAssociates

Guest Interaction: Treat guests with care and patience.

• Sales and Customer Service for the furniture department
• Load and unload furniture and donations
• Ensure guests are heard and cared for in a professional manner

Furniture Sales: Clean, price and sell donated furniture.

• Research pricing on donated items/products
• Clean and price product for the furniture sales floor
• Make minor repairs to furniture as needed to maximize sales
• Organize and lead the furniture department to maximize sales

Desired Skills & Qualifications

Basic Skills

• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Learning Strategies - Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
• Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

Social Skills

• Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
• Instructing - Teaching others howli>
• Negotiation - Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
• Service Orientation - Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.

Technical Skills

• Equipment Selection - Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
• Operation and Control - Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
• Quality Control Analysis - Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
• Physical Demands - Lifting and carrying items weighing up to 50 pounds, bending and stooping to handle products, and using hands and arms for repetitive motions.

Resource Management Skills

• Management of Personnel Resources - Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
• Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.

Desktop Computer Skills

• Spreadsheets- Using a computer application to enter, manipulate, and format text and numerical data; insert, delete, and manipulate cells, rows, and columns; and create and save worksheets, charts, and graphs.
• Navigation- Using scroll bars, a mouse, and dialog boxes to work within the computer's operating system. Being able to access and switch between applications and files of interest.
• Word Processing- Using a computer application to type text, insert pictures, format, edit, print, save, and retrieve word processing documents.

Leadership Skills

• Lead Tasks- The ability to lead out with projects/tasks and consistently finish what they start.
• Lead People- Taking leadership seriously and leading by example. Effectively able to coordinate people for assignments.

Experience/Training Required

New Horizons Ministries will provide training as required if not experienced or trained in that field.

Compensation

Full-time

This is a full-time position. This position is not exempt, which means that overtime pay will be paid for time worked over 40 hours per week. Paid Medical Leave, MEC, and Life Insurance is included, optional health benefits include Vision, and HDHP. Paid vacation begins to accrue after 30 days. Compensation will be paid twice a month, on the 7th and 21st of each month.

No compensation will be provided for voluntary time and/or services provided and volunteered by the employee that fall outside the typical employee responsibilities for this job.

Disclaimer: The duties and responsibilities described above are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee, time to time; the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands. Click “View Application” below for more detail on this specific job.