Hallmark Merchandiser (part-time) Rochester, NH 03867
Hallmark Cards · Rochester, NH · 4 wk ago
Hybrid$16–$18/hrPart-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually the posting includes Job Overview, Salary and Schedule Details, Your Role And Responsibilities Will Include, Physical Requirements, Basic Qualifications, Benefits (voluntary benefits), maybe Pay and Schedule. We must use for section headings: e.g., About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to map content accordingly.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we need to strip out things like "To learn more about this role, watch our merchandisers in action." (maybe keep as part of overview? It's like a call to watch video; could be considered boilerplate? It's not legal/EEO but maybe it's promotional; but we can keep as part of overview? The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The line "To learn more about this role, watch our merchandisers in action." is not exactly those categories, but it's a promotional line; we could keep it as part of overview. However later there is "Prior to applying, watch our merchandisers in action." duplicate; we should remove duplicated lines. Also "Now's your chance to Make Your Mark—just follow the instructions below to apply." and application instructions about resume etc. Those are application instructions; we must remove them. Also "Accepted file types are DOCX and PDF." etc. Remove.
Also "In compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986..." etc is legal boilerplate; remove. Also "Hallmark is an equal opportunity employer..." remove. Also "Principals only please." maybe not needed. Also "HALLMARK – Because Connecting..." maybe keep as overview? It's promotional but not boilerplate; could keep as part of overview.
We need to preserve all substantive information: job overview, responsibilities, physical requirements, basic qualifications, benefits, pay, schedule.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual pay range: $16.00- $18.00 per hour. So we can create a Pay section with that.
Schedule: variable schedule, average weekly hours 10-14, availability week before/after major holidays, support season changeovers etc. So we can create Schedule section.
Benefits: voluntary benefits medical, dental, vision etc; also paid training; annual pay increases; voluntary benefits list. So Benefits section.
Responsibilities: the "Your Role And Responsibilities Will Include" section with bullet points.
Requirements: maybe combine Basic Qualifications and Physical Requirements? The instruction says use headings like Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We have Basic Qualifications (age, English, ability to lift, operate device, Wi-Fi, transportation). Physical Requirements could be under Requirements or maybe separate? We could put Physical Requirements under Requirements (or maybe under Qualifications). But we need to avoid thin sections; we can combine Physical Requirements and Basic Qualifications into a "Requirements" section with subpoints? But we need to use
for section headings: e.g., About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to map content accordingly.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we need to strip out things like "To learn more about this role, watch our merchandisers in action." (maybe keep as part of overview? It's like a call to watch video; could be considered boilerplate? It's not legal/EEO but maybe it's promotional; but we can keep as part of overview? The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The line "To learn more about this role, watch our merchandisers in action." is not exactly those categories, but it's a promotional line; we could keep it as part of overview. However later there is "Prior to applying, watch our merchandisers in action." duplicate; we should remove duplicated lines. Also "Now's your chance to Make Your Mark—just follow the instructions below to apply." and application instructions about resume etc. Those are application instructions; we must remove them. Also "Accepted file types are DOCX and PDF." etc. Remove.
Also "In compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986..." etc is legal boilerplate; remove. Also "Hallmark is an equal opportunity employer..." remove. Also "Principals only please." maybe not needed. Also "HALLMARK – Because Connecting..." maybe keep as overview? It's promotional but not boilerplate; could keep as part of overview.
We need to preserve all substantive information: job overview, responsibilities, physical requirements, basic qualifications, benefits, pay, schedule.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual pay range: $16.00- $18.00 per hour. So we can create a Pay section with that.
Schedule: variable schedule, average weekly hours 10-14, availability week before/after major holidays, support season changeovers etc. So we can create Schedule section.
Benefits: voluntary benefits medical, dental, vision etc; also paid training; annual pay increases; voluntary benefits list. So Benefits section.
Responsibilities: the "Your Role And Responsibilities Will Include" section with bullet points.
Requirements: maybe combine Basic Qualifications and Physical Requirements? The instruction says use headings like Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We have Basic Qualifications (age, English, ability to lift, operate device, Wi-Fi, transportation). Physical Requirements could be under Requirements or maybe separate? We could put Physical Requirements under Requirements (or maybe under Qualifications). But we need to avoid thin sections; we can combine Physical Requirements and Basic Qualifications into a "Requirements" section with subpoints? But we need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can have a Requirements section with list items covering both basic qualifications and physical requirements.
Skills: maybe not explicitly listed; we could omit Skills section if no specific skills beyond those in qualifications. The instruction: prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could have sections: About the role (or Overview), Responsibilities, Requirements, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. That's six sections.
We must not include headings with empty content. Ensure each heading has substantive content.
Now craft HTML.
We need to use
for each section heading. Use
for prose. Use
- for lists.
We need to avoid duplicating content.
Let's extract substantive content:
Job Overview paragraph: "As a Merchandiser, you'll have the opportunity to work independently to showcase your organization and time management skills, your ability to establish retailer relationships, while being the face of Hallmark. You will collaborate with local store teams to optimize product placement and maintain inventory levels as well as support fellow team members with seasonal resets and installations, when needed. On occasion you may have the opportunity to work with other products from other companies in the stores that you service."
Also maybe include "Hallmark part time employees are offered voluntary benefits that include medical, dental, vision etc." but that's benefits.
Also "Eligible Employees receive annual pay increases." benefits.
Also "This is a Part-Time position with a variable schedule during the work week." schedule.
Also "Average weekly hours for this position are between 10 - 14 hours per week." schedule.
Also "Availability the week before and after major holidays, which may include weekends is required." schedule.
Also "Availability to support season changeovers, extended services, installations, and inventory support." schedule.
Also "On occasion you may have the opportunity to work with other products from other companies in the stores that you service." already in overview.
Now responsibilities: list:
- You'll perform service work in the Hallmark department of various retail stores such as grocery stores, drug stores, department stores, and mass retailers.
- The retail merchandiser position consists of three major components:
- Day-to-day engagement: Utilizing a mobile device provided by Hallmark, you'll restock, organize, and monitor the inventory of Hallmark products within and outside the Hallmark department. The use of technology is critical in this role, for the day-to-day work as well as communication with your supervisor, reporting time, providing feedback, and answering surveys for required merchandising activities. Professional and courteous interaction with store employees, management, and customers is also vital for success in this role. You are responsible for the entire Hallmark product display at your assigned stores.
- Holiday support: Hallmark's operations revolve around seasonal demand. Leading up to and following holidays such as Valentine's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, you can expect additional days and extended hours during the work week. On occasions like Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, and Father's Day, you may be required to work on the actual holiday itself, which may include the weekend.
- Department Resets: At times, you may be part of a team responsible for installations and various tasks like building and installing Hallmark fixtures, relocating card departments and products, as well as resetting card sections. Typically, you will be notified two weeks in advance for remodel assignments. This could include evenings or weekend.
- One Team Vision: As part of Hallmark's field organization, you are part of a network of merchandisers professionals that often times will support other team members as needed in their territories.
We can break into bullet points for each component.
Physical Requirements:
- This is a physically demanding job that requires a high level of energy and a sense of urgency.
- You will be working on the selling floor as well as in back stockrooms.
- You must be able to consistently push, pull, lift, and carry cartons, merchandise, and display fixtures up to 30 pounds throughout the workday and up to 50 pounds on occasion.
- You will also be required to kneel, squat, walk, and stand throughout your workday, and you may be required to climb stairs and step ladders.
Basic Qualifications:
- You're at least 18 years of age.
- You're able to read, write and understand English.
- You have the ability to grasp, pull, lift, and carry products up to 30 pounds frequently and 50 pounds occasionally.
- Able to operate a digital hand-held device to open and read documents and interpret information.
- You have access to a Wi-Fi network and the internet.
- You have access to consistent transportation to travel to and between assigned stores as scheduled.
- Part-time employees with a work schedule less than 30 hours have access to a variety of voluntary benefits through Voluntary Benefits including dental, vision, critical illness, accident insurance, hospital indemnity and minimum essential coverage (preventive care). (This is benefits actually; but appears also in qualifications duplicate; we can treat as benefits.)
We need to avoid duplication: the benefits line appears twice; we will include once in Benefits.
Now Benefits:
- Paid training, delivered through live, hands-on instruction as well as virtual classroom training.
- Hallmark part time employees are offered voluntary benefits that include medical, dental, vision etc.
- Eligible Employees receive annual pay increases.
- Part-time employees with a work schedule less than 30 hours have access to a variety of voluntary benefits through Voluntary Benefits including dental, vision, critical illness, accident insurance, hospital indemnity and minimum essential coverage (preventive care).
We could combine similar bullet points.
Pay:
- Your starting hourly pay rate will be $16.00- $18.00 per hour depending on your skills and experience.
Schedule:
- This is a Part-Time position with a variable schedule during the work week.
- Average weekly hours for this position are between 10 - 14 hours per week.
- Availability the week before and after major holidays, which may include weekends is required.
- Availability to support season changeovers, extended services, installations, and inventory support.
Now About the role / Overview: we can combine the initial overview paragraph plus maybe the Hallmark mission statement at end: "For over 100 years, Hallmark has helped people connect and strengthen the relationships that matter most. We’re building the next century of connection. We are looking for people who bring fresh ideas, energy, and care to their work. At Hallmark, you’ll feel welcome from day one, supported as you grow, and part of a culture rooted in care and inclusion." This is substantive; we can keep as part of overview.
Now we need to output HTML fragment only.
Structure:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Requirements
- ...
...
Benefits
- ...
...
Pay
...
Schedule
- ...
...
Make sure no extra whitespace? It's fine.
Now craft the prose.
About the role paragraph: combine:
"As a Merchandiser, you'll have the opportunity to work independently to showcase your organization and time management skills, your ability to establish retailer relationships, while being the face of Hallmark. You will collaborate with local store teams to optimize product placement and maintain inventory levels as well as support fellow team members with seasonal resets and installations, when needed. On occasion you may have the opportunity to work with other products from other companies in the stores that you service. For over 100 years, Hallmark has helped people connect and strengthen the relationships that matter most. We’re building the next century of connection. We are looking for people who bring fresh ideas, energy, and care to their work. At Hallmark, you’ll feel welcome from day one, supported as you grow, and part of a culture rooted in care and inclusion."
That's good.
Now Responsibilities list items: we need to break into sensible bullets.
We could have:
- Perform service work in the Hallmark department of various retail stores (grocery, drug, department, mass retailers).
- Day-to-day engagement: use a Hallmark‑provided mobile device to restock, organize, and monitor Hallmark inventory; communicate with supervisors, report time, provide feedback, and complete surveys; maintain professional interactions with store staff, management, and customers; oversee the entire Hallmark product display at assigned stores.
- Holiday support: anticipate additional days and extended hours around Valentine’s Day, Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas; may be required to work on the actual holiday (including weekends) for certain occasions.
- Department res
for each section heading. Use
for prose. Use
- for lists.
We need to avoid duplicating content.
Let's extract substantive content:
Job Overview paragraph: "As a Merchandiser, you'll have the opportunity to work independently to showcase your organization and time management skills, your ability to establish retailer relationships, while being the face of Hallmark. You will collaborate with local store teams to optimize product placement and maintain inventory levels as well as support fellow team members with seasonal resets and installations, when needed. On occasion you may have the opportunity to work with other products from other companies in the stores that you service."
Also maybe include "Hallmark part time employees are offered voluntary benefits that include medical, dental, vision etc." but that's benefits.
Also "Eligible Employees receive annual pay increases." benefits.
Also "This is a Part-Time position with a variable schedule during the work week." schedule.
Also "Average weekly hours for this position are between 10 - 14 hours per week." schedule.
Also "Availability the week before and after major holidays, which may include weekends is required." schedule.
Also "Availability to support season changeovers, extended services, installations, and inventory support." schedule.
Also "On occasion you may have the opportunity to work with other products from other companies in the stores that you service." already in overview.
Now responsibilities: list:
- You'll perform service work in the Hallmark department of various retail stores such as grocery stores, drug stores, department stores, and mass retailers.
- The retail merchandiser position consists of three major components:
- Day-to-day engagement: Utilizing a mobile device provided by Hallmark, you'll restock, organize, and monitor the inventory of Hallmark products within and outside the Hallmark department. The use of technology is critical in this role, for the day-to-day work as well as communication with your supervisor, reporting time, providing feedback, and answering surveys for required merchandising activities. Professional and courteous interaction with store employees, management, and customers is also vital for success in this role. You are responsible for the entire Hallmark product display at your assigned stores.
- Holiday support: Hallmark's operations revolve around seasonal demand. Leading up to and following holidays such as Valentine's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, you can expect additional days and extended hours during the work week. On occasions like Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, and Father's Day, you may be required to work on the actual holiday itself, which may include the weekend.
- Department Resets: At times, you may be part of a team responsible for installations and various tasks like building and installing Hallmark fixtures, relocating card departments and products, as well as resetting card sections. Typically, you will be notified two weeks in advance for remodel assignments. This could include evenings or weekend.
- One Team Vision: As part of Hallmark's field organization, you are part of a network of merchandisers professionals that often times will support other team members as needed in their territories.
We can break into bullet points for each component.
Physical Requirements:
- This is a physically demanding job that requires a high level of energy and a sense of urgency.
- You will be working on the selling floor as well as in back stockrooms.
- You must be able to consistently push, pull, lift, and carry cartons, merchandise, and display fixtures up to 30 pounds throughout the workday and up to 50 pounds on occasion.
- You will also be required to kneel, squat, walk, and stand throughout your workday, and you may be required to climb stairs and step ladders.
Basic Qualifications:
- You're at least 18 years of age.
- You're able to read, write and understand English.
- You have the ability to grasp, pull, lift, and carry products up to 30 pounds frequently and 50 pounds occasionally.
- Able to operate a digital hand-held device to open and read documents and interpret information.
- You have access to a Wi-Fi network and the internet.
- You have access to consistent transportation to travel to and between assigned stores as scheduled.
- Part-time employees with a work schedule less than 30 hours have access to a variety of voluntary benefits through Voluntary Benefits including dental, vision, critical illness, accident insurance, hospital indemnity and minimum essential coverage (preventive care). (This is benefits actually; but appears also in qualifications duplicate; we can treat as benefits.)
We need to avoid duplication: the benefits line appears twice; we will include once in Benefits.
Now Benefits:
- Paid training, delivered through live, hands-on instruction as well as virtual classroom training.
- Hallmark part time employees are offered voluntary benefits that include medical, dental, vision etc.
- Eligible Employees receive annual pay increases.
- Part-time employees with a work schedule less than 30 hours have access to a variety of voluntary benefits through Voluntary Benefits including dental, vision, critical illness, accident insurance, hospital indemnity and minimum essential coverage (preventive care).
We could combine similar bullet points.
Pay:
- Your starting hourly pay rate will be $16.00- $18.00 per hour depending on your skills and experience.
Schedule:
- This is a Part-Time position with a variable schedule during the work week.
- Average weekly hours for this position are between 10 - 14 hours per week.
- Availability the week before and after major holidays, which may include weekends is required.
- Availability to support season changeovers, extended services, installations, and inventory support.
Now About the role / Overview: we can combine the initial overview paragraph plus maybe the Hallmark mission statement at end: "For over 100 years, Hallmark has helped people connect and strengthen the relationships that matter most. We’re building the next century of connection. We are looking for people who bring fresh ideas, energy, and care to their work. At Hallmark, you’ll feel welcome from day one, supported as you grow, and part of a culture rooted in care and inclusion." This is substantive; we can keep as part of overview.
Now we need to output HTML fragment only.
Structure:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- ... ...
Benefits
- ... ...
Pay
...
Schedule
- ... ...
- Perform service work in the Hallmark department of various retail stores (grocery, drug, department, mass retailers).
- Day-to-day engagement: use a Hallmark‑provided mobile device to restock, organize, and monitor Hallmark inventory; communicate with supervisors, report time, provide feedback, and complete surveys; maintain professional interactions with store staff, management, and customers; oversee the entire Hallmark product display at assigned stores.
- Holiday support: anticipate additional days and extended hours around Valentine’s Day, Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas; may be required to work on the actual holiday (including weekends) for certain occasions.
- Department res