Operations Associate - Valley Crossing S/C at Eddie Bauer · Weslaco

Summary: JCPenney is a leading retail company serving diverse American families with a broad portfolio of fashion and home products. The Operations Associate role focuses on creating an outstanding customer experience by performing store operations functions prior to store opening. Responsibilities include customer service, pricing, restocking merchandise, receiving shipments, maintaining backroom standards, supporting omnichannel efforts, and executing merchandise placement strategies.

Responsibilities:
- Customer Service - You're maneuvering around the store at a fast pace, working with all the latest merchandise, but when a customer stops to ask you a question or request assistance, there's no one they'd rather be talking to other than you
- Executes pricing and signing - You can change ticket prices and signing on merchandise across the store better and faster than anyone!
- Replenish and restock the store: You understand the needs of the customer. When merchandise is getting low, you assist your sales floor peers and leaders by pulling and preparing merchandise to go the floor in order to ensure all of our customers have the styles and sizes they need
- Receive and unload merchandise: You work with your co-workers to unload a truck and prepare the merchandise in the backroom
- Backroom standards: You keep the stockroom safe, clean, and organized
- Omnichannel: You will contribute to Omichannel efforts including Buy Online Pickup in Store, Ship from Store, Order Delivery and Returns, Shipping Online Orders, and Merchandise Receiving
- Merchandise strategy: You take the plans that have been communicated by leadership on where to place merchandise throughout the store and execute the plan with efficiency and detail. You understand the merchandising standards and work to deliver an outstanding customer experience by maintaining these standards as you flow goods to the sales floor
- Participates in a learning environment: You absorb new information from your peers or training materials on our merchandise, shrink, safety, productivity, and other business processes

Required Qualifications:
- Work experience- 1-2 years retail experience

Required Skills: Retail Operations, Merchandising, Inventory Replenishment, Omnichannel Retail, Buy Online, Pickup In Store (BOPIS), Shipping and Order Fulfillment, Merchandise Receiving

Benefits: If eligible, medical/dental/vision, If eligible, term life insurance, If eligible, paid vacation/holidays, If eligible, 401(k) with Company match, All associates are eligible for an associate discount on JCPenney merchandise, Associates who are eligible for paid vacation (MTO) are also eligible for eight paid holidays during the calendar year, All store hourly associates scheduled to work on a designated holiday will receive additional compensation