About the Role
This role supports the daily operations of retail stores by performing a variety of non-routine tasks including merchandising, buying, pricing, and marketing assignments.
Responsibilities
- Support the daily operations of retail stores
- Perform a variety of non-routine tasks
- Work on a variety of merchandising, buying, pricing, and marketing assignments
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent education; Associate’s degree preferred
- Minimum of five years of experience preferred
- Knowledge of standardized rules, procedures, and operations within a specialized field/work area
- In-depth experience in a technical field
- Ability to selectively extract, verify, and compile objective and measurable data
- May modify existing processes, methods, and approaches
- May be working toward a professional qualification
- Encounters varied and non-routine problems
- Requires basic problem-solving techniques to clearly define problems
- Identifies the most appropriate option/solution to adjust or improve existing approaches
- Solutions often leverage and improve on existing processes, procedures, and/or tools
- Requires objective review of difficult work problems, obtaining cooperation or approval
- Requires considerable resourcefulness
- Exchanges standard technical or nontechnical information with colleagues, immediate superiors, and/or customers
- May be required to interpret or clarify technical information to aid understanding
- Interprets or explains data or information to deliver messages
- Requires awareness of cultural differences and adapts style accordingly
- Impact is short term (typically limited to one year)
- Activities limited to monthly/quarterly planning
- Supports the achievement of goals through personal effort in own work area
- Scope of impact will be at the department and/or team level
- May also impact on related activities outside of own work team and/or department
- Accountable for the on-time delivery of own work and that of others
- May be responsible for coaching/mentoring more junior employees; but has no direct supervisory responsibility
- Responsible for the quality review of deliverables by more junior employees
- Financial accountability confined to proactive management of cost within the project/team
- Performance measured against predefined annual objectives
Skills
- Merchandising
- Buying
- Pricing
- Marketing
- Problem-solving
- Data analysis
- Communication
- Adaptability
- Coaching
- Mentoring
Experience Level
- Minimum of five years of experience preferred
Education Level
- High school diploma or equivalent education
- Associate’s degree preferred
