Retail Product & Pricing Specialist

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About the role

Job Title: Retail Product & Pricing Specialist
Department: Grocery
FLSA: Non-Exempt

Responsibilities

• Maintains the department standards for customer service, employee relations, cleanliness, sanitation, professional appearance and overall profitability.
• Generates a friendly atmosphere by encouraging employees to greet and speak to customers; providing prompt, courteous, and efficient service to customers and sets a good example.
• Assists customers by escorting them to the products they're looking for, securing products that are out of reach, loading or unloading heavy items, making note of and passing along customer suggestions or requests, and performing other tasks in every way possible to enhance the shopping experience.
• Assists store management with gross profit analysis and other management reporting functions.
• Ensures inventory information is accurate for monthly inventory.
• Utilizes product management software to minimize out of stocks and inventory and maintains correct item parameters and signage to maximize sales and profits.
• Ensures advertised, EDLP, and RDA items are priced and signed correctly and sufficient quantities are ordered.
• Maintains special buys to ensure accuracy of parameters in product management applications.
• Performs inventory and pricing verification in accordance with Hy-Vee policy.
• Determines product placement for new items and resets to ensure the timely presentation of products to the customer.
• Ensures obsolete and discontinued inventory is reduced for quick sale.
• Maintains strict adherence to department and company guidelines related to personal hygiene and dress.
• Works with DSD vendors, checks in and balances vendor invoices.
• Edits and transmits replenishment and ad orders.
• Safeguards company assets including equipment and merchandise.
• Reports to work when scheduled and on time.

Qualifications

• High school or equivalent experience.
• Strong basic math skills necessary.
• Over six months to one year of similar or related experience.

Skills

• Solving practical problems.
• Interpreting instructions.
• Arithmetic calculations involving fractions, decimals, and percentages.
• Interviewing to obtain basic information.
• Guiding people to provide basic direction.
• Following technical manuals.

Benefits

Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a pre employment drug screen.

Pay

Not specified

Schedule

Not specified