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.
• Aids in 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.
• Reduces obsolete and discontinued inventory.
• Maintains damage/unsaleable inventory and implements solutions to reduce them.
• Edits and transmits replenishment and ad orders.
• Safeguards price changes and product information changes for all items in a timely manner.
• Aids department managers with questions concerning product management in their department.
• Works with DSD vendors, checks in and balances vendor invoices.
• Maintains strict adherence to department and company guidelines related to personal hygiene and dress.
• 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

• Ability to solve practical problems; variety of variables with limited standardization; interpret instructions.
• Possess the ability to interview to obtain basic information; guide people to provide basic direction; follow technical manuals and have increased contact with people.

Benefits

For information on company benefits visit Benefits | Hy-Vee.

Pay

The anticipated hourly starting wage for this position is $16.00 to $20.00 depending on experience.