Retail Merchandising Team Leader - Zone 1

Zone 1 Area Coverage

Texas: Sweetwater, Glen Rose, Granbury, Comanche, Brownwood, Haskel, Anson, Merkel, Winters, Albany, Eastland, and Cisco

Job Summary

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Works with upper management to train and develop partners, schedule, plan, assign, and direct work.
• Oversees tasks performed by merchandising partners and participates in the stocking and proper placement of products.
• Configures store resets based on schematics provided by Category Management. Evaluates optimal placement and sell-through of products.
• Gathers and reports information to upper management regarding discontinued, slow moving, and damaged products.
• Monitors inventory report disparities in product count to upper management.
• Works with departmental managers on special projects related to Company initiatives.
• Communicates suggestions, ideas, and observations with store personnel, supervisors, and third-party vendors.
• Provides feedback and reports issues to department leaders regarding the status of store resets.
• Orders, assembles, disassembles, and repairs merchandising equipment.
• Performs administrative tasks related to vendor services.
• Drives daily to retail stores within a designated geographical area.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Intermediate knowledge of floor planning software and store reset/remodel processes.
• Basic mathematical and measuring skills.
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office applications including Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Ability to lead and motivate others.
• Ability to read and interpret planograms and other merchandising blueprints.
• Ability to learn new technology systems, methods and processes.
• Ability to reason, form concepts and recognize and solve problems.
• Ability to communicate effectively in written and verbal form.
• Ability to comprehend and interpret information.
• Ability to prepare reports and business correspondence.
• Ability to work flexible schedules including nights, weekends and holidays.
• Ability to frequently travel to off-site and out-of-town locations with possible overnight stays.
• Ability to use knives/box cutters.
• Ability to operate a fork lift/pallet jack.
• Ability to use precision hand tools.
• Required to drive in accordance with the BGC Driver policy.
• Must be attentive to potential hazards and remedy or place appropiate warning signs or devices around or near the hazard as soon as is reasonably possible.
• Must report any potential hazards that cannot be immediately remedied to a supervisor.

Education, Experience, and Qualifications

• High school Diploma or GED and two or more years of related experience; or an equivalent combination of experience and/or higher education required.
• Minimum of 21 years of age required.
• Partners must be 21 years of age or older to drive for Company business in accordance with the BGC Business Driver Policy.

Physical Demands

• Continuously required to use hands for reaching, touching or handling.
• Continuously required to stand or walk.
• Frequently required to talk and hear.
• Frequently required to push, pull, maneuver or lift objects up to 60 lbs.
• Frequently required to bend, kneel or squat.
• Frequently required to climb, balance, stoop or crawl.
• Frequently required to drive.
• Occasionally required to push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 75 lbs.
• Occasionally exposed to extreme cold conditions (non-weather).
• Occasionally exposed to wet, slippery or damp conditions.
• Attendance at work is required.

Work Context and Environment

• Work is generally performed in a retail store with frequent time spent in a vehicle.
• Frequently exposed to outside temperatures and weather.
• Occasionally exposed to cleaning agents.
• Noise level varies.