Specialty Variety

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VARIETY MANAGER

PURPOSE STATEMENT: To manage the Variety Department to achieve maximum sales and profit.

SIGNIFICANT JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. To greet customers respond to customer questions/requests/complaints and explain store policies in a courteous manner.
2. To orient/train all new variety department employees and retrain employees when necessary.
3. To implement a weekly display plan for endaisle merchandising and ad promotion.
4. To order all variety products specialty foods and supplies so as to eliminate outofstocks while maintaining the desired variety turns.
5. To perform: 1 preparation for receipt of merchandise; 2 checking of each item in the totes; 3 sorting of totes according to aisle or location of product for stocking; 4 stocking of merchandise on shelf/peg/strip/rack according to planogram; 5 building of displays.
6. To safely use cleaning equipment and chemicals.
7. To perform: 1 loading of stocking carts; 2 transportation of totes to the sales floor on stocking carts; 3 matching of the casestrip to the shelf tag/stock; 4 stickerprice items with nonremovable labels; 5 rotate stock; 6 place merchandise in the designated shelf/display position/area; 7 the face/front program for the front row of each display; 8 the immediate pick up/removal of all broken containers packing materials/boxes from the sales floor or customers pathway.
8. To perform the safety procedures used in the operation of the baler case cutter pallet jack and stocking cart.
9. To perform the counting and recording of individual items of merchandise for inventory.
10. To perform the manual pricemarking/labeling of merchandise without a UPC code.
11. To supervise the movement of damaged/unsalable and returnable products from shelves to the backroom sorting of the materials into bins and the return of damage to vendors.
12. To perform the changing of signs tags and price markers.
13. To perform miscellaneous tasks assigned by the store manager substituting for absent workers and performing any additional tasks necessary to provide products and services to customers.

QUALIFICATIONS:

REQUIRED:

1. Able to give/receive complex verbal instructions/descriptions to/from supervisors/coworkers/employees concerning store/department policy/procedures and use of equipment.
2. The ability to read and write English. Able to read instructions tote stickers merchandise labels warehouse ordercodes numbers reports printed paper and forms.
3. Make judgments concerning: the placement of merchandise on the shelf/display pricing employee scheduling order of product/supplies department conditions hiring/supervision of employees merchandising plans departments operational policies and procedures and the sales/promotion of merchandise.
4. Good interpersonal communications.

PREFERRED:

1. High school diploma or equivalent.
2. Prior Variety Department experience.
3. Prior experience in implementing HBC/GM planograms.

TASKS OF THE JOB This position generally involves:

1. Mobility:

• Move while conducting training and orientation of HBC/GM Department personnel approximately 50 yards.
• Move to supervise: the receiving of product movement of product to the floor or storage area opening/cutting of cases inspect product for damage sorting of cases/merchandise building of displays on the shelf and at endaisles the allocation of space in HBC/GM categories order merchandise and supplies cleaning and maintenance removal of trash/debris from the department pricemarking and signage throughout the department maximum approximate 100 yards.
• Work on tile or concrete for a maximum of 8 hours in duration.

1. Lift and stack empty totes from floor to 72 inches overhead.
2. Lift a maximum of 45 lbs. from 6 inches to 48 inches.
3. Lift a maximum of 45 lbs. from 6 inches to 84 inches on to overhead/backroom storage rack.
4. Carry a maximum of 45 lbs. up to 15 feet.
5. Pick up/move/sort/open/face/front case/item/trash/from floor/shelf/ground/pallet/rack storage.
6. Attain merchandise/cases on the top of overhead/backroom storage shelves/rack up to 84 inches from the floor.
7. Reach forward/down/up to 36 inches to attain merchandise on stocking cart or pallets to place cases/items on shelving/displays clean shelves/floor area or control maintenance/stocking equipment.
8. Reach up to place signs and banners in place.
9. Handle labels/signs/tags casecutter/utility knife and cardboard/packaging and debris.
10. Grasp and handle crushable/metal/paper/plastic store products.
11. Operate cash register keys and handle cash and coins.
12. Twist at the waist while cleaning cutting/opening sorting stocking loading/unloading moving/removing merchandise and stocking merchandise.
13. Climb on ladders cases shelving and stairs up to 10 feet in height.
14. Stock shelves 8 inches from the floor to 36 inches in height.
15. See cases casecutter edge case strips shelf location product size/description/quality customers totes shelf tags labels on products stocking carts knives packaging materials debris on floor aisle markers and signs.
16. Perceive color difference on product and product labels.
17. Listen to customer vendor and coworker questions and responses.
18. Listen to the sound of baler/pallet jack/cleaningequipment operation.
19. Use and respond to the intercom/phone system.
20. Read case labels/case strips signs tags equipment and chemicalwarning labels shelf signs numbers and aisle markers department forms and reports.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Inside and outside work with extreme variations in heat/cold/dust/ humidity.

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At HAC Inc. were proud to offer both an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)and a 401Kto help secure your financial future! HAC Inc. is a 100 EmployeeOwned company and we are excited to offer our employees the opportunity to become partowners through our ESOP. By simply being an employee at HAC you automatically receive shares of stock in the companyFREE of charge!The value of your account grows alongside the success of HAC. As our company thrives so does your ESOP account ensuring that your hard work contributes directly to your future.