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Merchandising Service Associate - Plant Service Lead
Lowe's • Newton, NJ 07860 • Posted 2 days ago
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The Merchandising Service Associate - Plant Service Lead at Lowe's is responsible for providing SMART customer service, building relationships with vendors, collaborating with the Merchandising Service team and Manager, engaging with customers, and maintaining the organization and quality of the Outside Garden. This role involves a variety of tasks including merchandising, maintaining displays, communicating with customers and associates, and ensuring a safe and secure work environment.
Responsibilities
- Provide SMART customer service through daily execution of Lowe's customer service policies, procedures, and programs.
- Build relationships with vendors by ensuring merchandise resets are completed according to Lowe's specifications.
- Collaborate with the Merchandising Service team and Manager to communicate project priorities, schedule, and project needs.
- Engage with customers to understand their needs and assist in locating, demonstrating, selecting, carrying, and/or loading merchandise.
- Listen to and respond knowledgeably and promptly to customer questions.
- Demonstrate sincere appreciation to customers.
- Communicate information to customers regarding all stock, special order merchandise, feature benefits, application, and warranty information related to Lowe's programs.
- Empty plant racks onto plant tables and merchandise by planogram, price, and color block.
- Identify damaged or missing signage, displays, collateral and order replacements.
- Update/validate wayfinding and product location signage and digital maintenance throughout the store.
- Ensure cross merchandise, side stack products, j-hooks and gravity feed bins are placed appropriately.
- Assist with culling and pricing dead and distressed plants.
- Maintain a high level of communication and partnership with MSM and red vest associates.
- Identify and communicate issues with quality, quantity, and additional needs to Outside Garden Supervisor and MSM.
- Adjust fixtures, rotate stock, display products and support materials using power equipment.
- Review, complete, and enter completion details for all assigned service and maintenance tasks.
- Ensure all displays are safe and in working order and repaired/replaced as needed.
- Operate store equipment as needed depending on one's regular job duties.
Qualifications
Required
- Ability to read, write, and perform basic arithmetic (addition, subtraction)
- Ability to work overnight and weekends
- Ability to utilize web-based computer programs to accomplish assigned tasks
- 6 Months Live nursery experience or General Merchandising experience
Preferred
- 6 Months Lowe's sales floor experience
- 6 Months Experience performing product merchandising tasks including reading planograms, setting up and tearing down displays
- 3 Months Experience operating power equipment such as lifts, order pickers, and similar equipment
- Working knowledge of basic tools needed for the job (e.g., hand tools, drills, saws)
About Lowe's
Lowe's is a leading American home improvement retailer that offers a wide range of products and services to help customers enhance and maintain their homes. The company operates over 2,200 stores across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, with a strong emphasis on providing quality products, exceptional service, and innovative solutions for home improvement projects. Although facing competition from The Home Depot, Lowe's continues to invest in technology, expand its online offerings, and improve the customer experience to meet evolving needs in the market.
Full Job Description
- Always provide SMART customer service through the daily execution of Lowe's customer
service policies, procedures, and programs.
- Build relationships with vendors by providing direction and checking to ensure merchandise
resets are completed according to Lowe's specifications.
- Collaborate with the Merchandising Service team and Manager by communicating project
priorities, schedule, and project needs (e.g., materials, supplies, time)
- Although most of the time will be spent in activities that do not involve the direct interaction
with customers, the individual in this role is expected to engage with customers when the
opportunity arises. This includes:
- Understand customers' needs and assists in locating, demonstrating, selecting, carrying,
and/or loading merchandise.
- Engage with customers to understand his/her needs and assists in locating, demonstrating,
selecting, carrying, and/or loading merchandise.
- Listen to and responds knowledgeably and promptly to customer questions, taking them to
areas of the store when necessary.
- Demonstrate sincere appreciation to customers.
- Communicate information to customers regarding all stock, special order merchandise,
feature benefits, application, and warranty information related to Lowe's programs.
- Empty plant racks onto plant tables merchandising by planogram, price, and color block as
they arrive.
- Identify damaged or missing signage, displays, collateral and orders replacements in
accordance with merchandising standards and planogram details.
- Update/validate wayfinding and product location signage as well as digital maintenance of this
information throughout the store.
- Ensure cross merchandise, side stack products, j-hooks and gravity feed bins are placed
appropriately, helping to drive add-on sales.
- Assist with culling and pricing dead and distressed plants.
- Maintain a high level of communication and partnership with MSM and red vest associates.
- Identify and communicate issues with quality, quantity, and additional needs to Outside
Garden Supervisor and MSM.
- Adjust fixtures, rotates stock, displays products and support materials using power equipment
(e.g., lifts, order pickers) per service expectations and processes.
- Review, complete, and enter completion details (when, what, amount of time spent, taking
and uploading photographs to confirm servicing completion, etc.) for all assigned service and
maintenance tasks.
- Ensure all displays are safe and in working order and repaired/replaced as needed.
- Repair/seal damaged packaging and boxes including peg-hook items.
- Remove all trash, moves cardboard boxes to the bailer and moves plastic wrap and other
debris to the compactor.
- Replace light bulbs and alerts the appropriate contact when additional maintenance issues
are noted (lights out, painting, etc.).
- Detect common signs of shoplifting, theft, and other security risks, and promptly
communicates them to management and/or Asset Protection.
- Ensure compliance with housekeeping standards and programs (e.g., Zone Recovery) to
maintain cleanliness and organization of Outside Garden and working areas.
- Maintain a safe and secure work environment, which may include conducting daily safety
reviews, noting hazards, keeping aisles clear, and securing doors and gates.
- Adhere to all safety requirements relevant to one's regular job duties: top stock safety,
reinstalling safety cables, use of aisle blockers, a tether line on power equipment, spotters, and safety devices.
- Operate store equipment as needed depending on one specific role and department (e.g.,
Zebra phone, telephone, paging system, copiers, fax machines, computers, CCTV
surveillance system, key cutter, panel saw, paint mixer, flooring cutters, compacter baler).
- In addition to the above responsibilities, this individual is held accountable for other duties as
assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
+ Ability to read, write, and perform basic arithmetic (addition, subtraction)
+ Ability to work overnight and weekends
+ Ability to utilize web-based computer programs to accomplish assigned tasks
+ 6 Months Live nursery experience or General Merchandising experience
Preferred Qualifications
+ 6 Months Lowe's sales floor experience
+ 6 Months Experience performing product merchandising tasks including reading planograms, setting up and tearing down displays
+ 3 Months Experience operating power equipment such as lifts, order pickers, and similar equipment
+ Working knowledge of basic tools needed for the job (e.g., hand tools, drills, saws)
_Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law._
Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. For information regarding our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits.
service policies, procedures, and programs.
- Build relationships with vendors by providing direction and checking to ensure merchandise
resets are completed according to Lowe's specifications.
- Collaborate with the Merchandising Service team and Manager by communicating project
priorities, schedule, and project needs (e.g., materials, supplies, time)
- Although most of the time will be spent in activities that do not involve the direct interaction
with customers, the individual in this role is expected to engage with customers when the
opportunity arises. This includes:
- Understand customers' needs and assists in locating, demonstrating, selecting, carrying,
and/or loading merchandise.
- Engage with customers to understand his/her needs and assists in locating, demonstrating,
selecting, carrying, and/or loading merchandise.
- Listen to and responds knowledgeably and promptly to customer questions, taking them to
areas of the store when necessary.
- Demonstrate sincere appreciation to customers.
- Communicate information to customers regarding all stock, special order merchandise,
feature benefits, application, and warranty information related to Lowe's programs.
- Empty plant racks onto plant tables merchandising by planogram, price, and color block as
they arrive.
- Identify damaged or missing signage, displays, collateral and orders replacements in
accordance with merchandising standards and planogram details.
- Update/validate wayfinding and product location signage as well as digital maintenance of this
information throughout the store.
- Ensure cross merchandise, side stack products, j-hooks and gravity feed bins are placed
appropriately, helping to drive add-on sales.
- Assist with culling and pricing dead and distressed plants.
- Maintain a high level of communication and partnership with MSM and red vest associates.
- Identify and communicate issues with quality, quantity, and additional needs to Outside
Garden Supervisor and MSM.
- Adjust fixtures, rotates stock, displays products and support materials using power equipment
(e.g., lifts, order pickers) per service expectations and processes.
- Review, complete, and enter completion details (when, what, amount of time spent, taking
and uploading photographs to confirm servicing completion, etc.) for all assigned service and
maintenance tasks.
- Ensure all displays are safe and in working order and repaired/replaced as needed.
- Repair/seal damaged packaging and boxes including peg-hook items.
- Remove all trash, moves cardboard boxes to the bailer and moves plastic wrap and other
debris to the compactor.
- Replace light bulbs and alerts the appropriate contact when additional maintenance issues
are noted (lights out, painting, etc.).
- Detect common signs of shoplifting, theft, and other security risks, and promptly
communicates them to management and/or Asset Protection.
- Ensure compliance with housekeeping standards and programs (e.g., Zone Recovery) to
maintain cleanliness and organization of Outside Garden and working areas.
- Maintain a safe and secure work environment, which may include conducting daily safety
reviews, noting hazards, keeping aisles clear, and securing doors and gates.
- Adhere to all safety requirements relevant to one's regular job duties: top stock safety,
reinstalling safety cables, use of aisle blockers, a tether line on power equipment, spotters, and safety devices.
- Operate store equipment as needed depending on one specific role and department (e.g.,
Zebra phone, telephone, paging system, copiers, fax machines, computers, CCTV
surveillance system, key cutter, panel saw, paint mixer, flooring cutters, compacter baler).
- In addition to the above responsibilities, this individual is held accountable for other duties as
assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
+ Ability to read, write, and perform basic arithmetic (addition, subtraction)
+ Ability to work overnight and weekends
+ Ability to utilize web-based computer programs to accomplish assigned tasks
+ 6 Months Live nursery experience or General Merchandising experience
Preferred Qualifications
+ 6 Months Lowe's sales floor experience
+ 6 Months Experience performing product merchandising tasks including reading planograms, setting up and tearing down displays
+ 3 Months Experience operating power equipment such as lifts, order pickers, and similar equipment
+ Working knowledge of basic tools needed for the job (e.g., hand tools, drills, saws)
_Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law._
Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. For information regarding our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits.
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