As a Roses/Roses Express Customer Service Associate you will be responsible for providing excellent customer service to our customers. Key priorities include greeting customers, assisting them with selection of merchandise, completing transactions, and answering questions regarding the store and merchandise. Other duties may include unloading trucks, processing freight, recovering merchandise and stocking shelves.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Provides customer engagement in positive and approachable manner. • Assists in maintaining a clean, well-stocked store for customers during their shopping experience. • Helps in the unloading of merchandise from delivery trucks, organizes merchandise, and transports merchandise from stockroom to sales floor. • Independently stocks shelves and recovers merchandise in the store. • Accurately handles customer funds and processes transactions using the POS system. • Remains constantly aware of customer activity to ensure a safe and secure shopping environment. • Performs all other duties as assigned in order to maintain an effective and profitable store operation.
Position Requirements:
Education: Prefer completion of high school or equivalent. Ability to follow directives and interpret retail operational documents as assigned.
Experience: Prefer experience working in retail, hotel, restaurant, grocery or drug store environments.
Physical Requirements: Ability to regularly lift up to 40lbs. (and occasionally, up to 55 lbs.) from floor level to above shoulder height; must be able to meet demands of frequent walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, climbing, pushing, pulling and repetitive lifting, with or without reasonable accommodation.
Availability: Ability to work flexible, full-time schedule or part-time to include days, evenings, weekends and holidays.
Skills and Competencies: Customer Focus, Developing Potential, Results Driven, Strong Organizational Skills, Communication Skills, Problem Solving/Decision Making, Job Knowledge and Relationship Management.
Working Conditions
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Retail store environment where extended periods of standing are required
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Retail store stockroom environment subject to fluctuations in temperature
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Frequent lifting and maneuvering of merchandise and displays.
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Exposure to dust and extreme temperatures while unloading trailers.
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Scheduled work hours may vary, to include evenings and weekends.
• Occasional use of ladders required.
Roses Discount Stores is a super-regional retail chain founded in 1915 by Paul Howard Rose and headquartered in Henderson, NC. In 1997, Variety Wholesalers, Inc. purchased Roses. Variety Wholesalers, Inc. is a family owned business that began in 1922. In 1949, John W. Pope took over his family’s “Five and Dime” stores, eventually growing them into one of the largest privately owned companies in the United States. Today Variety Wholesalers is based in Henderson, NC and John Pope’s son, Art Pope serves as chairman. Variety Wholesalers, Inc. operates 422 stores throughout the Southeast, primarily comprised of the Roses and Roses Express brands.
