Operations Associate - Columbia Town Ctr at JCPenney in Columbia, MD

Summary: JCPenney is a retail company serving customers through its stores and online shopping channels. The Operations Associate creates an outstanding customer experience by performing early-morning store operations, including pricing, replenishment, receiving, backroom organization, omnichannel fulfillment, and merchandise execution.

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, Merchandise Replenishment, Inventory Receiving, Omnichannel Fulfillment

Benefits: If eligible, medical, dental, and vision benefits, If eligible, term life insurance, If eligible, paid vacation, If eligible, paid holidays, If eligible, 401(k) with Company match, Associate discount on JCPenney merchandise, Eligible associates receive eight paid holidays during the calendar year, All store hourly associates scheduled to work on a designated holiday will receive additional compensation