Shift Lead

Walgreens; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Walgreens in Columbus, OH is seeking a Customer Experience team member to lead store operations in the absence of management and to ensure a smooth start and close of business. You will handle cash, returns, refunds, and provide friendly, efficient service to customers.

The role also supports pricing, inventory control, backroom organization, and coordination with vendors to ensure accurate stock and displays, while upholding store policies and safety standards.

Qualifications

• One year of prior leadership, supervisory, or retail key holder work experience.
• Must be fluent in reading, writing, and speaking English.

Responsibilities

• Opens and closes the store in absence of management, handles required cash start-ups and ensures floor/stock room readiness.
• Completes returns, refunds, cash drops, and provides change as requested to registers.
• Assists with pricing changes and displays, and maintains accurate inventory counts.

Skills

Leadership

English fluency

Customer service

Education

PTCB certification or pharmacy license

Tools

POS systems

Inventory management systems

Job description

Customer Experience

• Opens and closes the store in the absence of store management, including all required systems start-ups, required cash handling, and ensuring the floor and stock room are ready for the business day. Responsible for opening back door of store for deliveries.
• Completes product returns, order voids, customer refunds, cash drops to the safe, and provides change as requested to cash registers.
• Models and delivers a distinctive and delightful customer experience.

Operations

• Responsible for holding store keys to open and close without management as necessary.
• Assists with and coaches other team members to work with warehouse and vendor ordering process as the orders are created, reviewed, and received, including opening the backdoor for vendor deliveries.
• Responsible and accountable for registering all related sales on assigned cash register, including records of scanning errors, price verifications, items not on file, price modifications, and voids.
• Assists manager or assistant store manager in reviewing order exceptions on order release day and assists in reverse logistics (e.g., 1506, returns, empty package).
• Assists manager or assistant store manager in evaluating and developing displays, including promotional, seasonal, super structures, and sale merchandise. Completes resets and revisions.
• Maintains accurate inventory counts; maintains the accuracy of on-hand quantities including, but not limited to, basic departments, stockroom, and overstock locations.
• Assist with ensuring the Outdate program is followed with team members.
• Responsible for basic department pricing and making daily price changes; ensures proper signage is displayed at the store to support accurate pricing of products. Ensures any additional pricing tasks related to local regulations and/or regulatory compliance programs are completed accurately and within the required time frame.
• Assist with bookkeeping activities, including cash report, cash counts, ledgers, and bill payment as necessary or as requested.
• Assists with exterior and interior maintenance by ensuring clean, neat, orderly store condition and appearance, including requesting store or system repairs as required in manager absence, or as requested by manager.
• Assists with separation of food items (e.g., raw foods from pre-cooked) and product placement as specified by policies/procedures (e.g., raw and frozen meats on bottom shelves). For consumable items, assists in stock rotation, using the first in, first out method and restock outs.
• Has working knowledge of store systems and store equipment.
• Assist at Pharmacy out window as requested.
• Ensures compliance with state and local laws regarding regulated products (e.g., alcoholic beverages and tobacco products).
• Responsible for bag checks of team members before leaving the store.
• Complies with all company policies and procedures; maintains respectful relationships with coworkers.
• Completes special assignments and other tasks as assigned.

Training & Personal Development

• Attends training and completes PPLs requested by Manager.

Communications

• Serves as a liaison between management and non-management team members by communicating assigned tasks to team members when store management is not present.
• Reports disciplinary issues and customer complaints to management.

Basic Qualifications

• One year of prior leadership, supervisory, or retail key holder work experience.
• Must be fluent in reading, writing, and speaking English. (Except in Puerto Rico)

Preferred Qualifications

• Prefer the knowledge of store inventory control.
• We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
• Obtains and maintains valid PTCB certification or pharmacy license as required by state.

An Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans.

The actual compensation that you will be offered will depend on a variety of factors including geography, skills and abilities, education, experience and other relevant factors. This role will remain open until filled.

Salary Range: $17 - $20 / Hourly