Sales Floor Dept Supervisor - Paint

About the role

All Lowe’s associates deliver quality customer service while maintaining a store that is clean, safe, and stocked with the products our customers need. As a Sales Floor Department Supervisor, this means providing resources and tools to support those directly helping customers provide the best service, assisting with down stocking and area recovery as well as providing input into merchandising decisions, and monitoring use of store power equipment and coaching employees on safe behaviors and lifting techniques. The Sales Floor Department Supervisor is primarily responsible for leading and enabling a team of associates to deliver the best possible customer experience in the store. This includes coaching and training associates, delegating, following-up on daily tasks, managing performance, and ensuring adequate department coverage.

Responsibilities

• Customer-facing activities: greeting customers, clarifying needs and identifying solutions, closing sales
• Non-customer-facing activities: down stocking, inventory management, area recovery
• Store safety: conducting safety walks, reporting hazards, understanding safety and lifting directions
• Coaching and training associates
• Delegating and following up on daily tasks
• Managing associate performance
• Ensuring adequate department coverage
• Working with leaders to identify approaches and behaviors that meet sales and service objectives
• Communicating best practices to inspire engaging, customer-focused behavior and goal attainment
• Supervising associates in other departments as needed to meet store demands
• Communicating upward to keep management informed of concerns, issues, praises, and morale
• Occasionally opening or closing the store or serving as manager-on-duty (MOD)

Schedule

Hourly Full Time: Generally scheduled 39 to 40 hours; more hours may be required based on the needs of the store. Requires morning, afternoon and evening availability any day of the week.

Physical Requirements

• Physical ability to perform tasks that may require prolonged standing, sitting, and other activities necessary to perform job duties
• Minimally must be able to lift 25 pounds without assistance; may lift over 25 pounds with or without assistance

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent and 3 years of experience in a retail environment OR 5 years of experience in a retail environment
• 1 year of experience in customer service
• 1 year of experience supporting the unique needs of Pro customers (for Pro Department Supervisor)
• Experience providing direction or supervision to teams (with or without direct report responsibility)
• Experience supporting or participating in the process of training, mentoring and developing associates
• Experience working cross-functionally
• Experience using Microsoft Office Suite
• Ability to obtain sales related licensure or registration as may be required by law

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 years of retail customer service experience
• 3 years of experience supporting the unique needs of Pro customers (Pro Department Supervisor)
• Experience in a leadership role with direct report responsibility
• Experience working in the home improvement retail sector
• Experience working in a fast paced, dynamic retail environment
• Experience in key carrying role with manager-on-duty responsibilities
• Experience using store computer systems (including but not limited to: Project Tool, Genesis, Sterling, M2O, Thin Client, etc.)

About the Company

Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week, with total fiscal year 2025 sales of more than $86 billion. Lowe's employs approximately 300,000 associates and operates over 1,700 home improvement stores, 530 branches and 130 distribution centers. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need.

Pay

Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience.