Merchandising Operations Associate bei 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, INC

The Merchandising Operations Associate is responsible for setting up and maintaining products sold through the 1-800-Flowers family of brands. Accuracy in this process is critical as it is how we sell the items to the consumer. This includes responding and actioning all emails in a timely fashion as they pertain to normal daily business as well as communicating any changes to management, SOP or any other pre-established process.

Responsibilities:

• Understand functions of product maintenance and setup
• Interact with Product Development & Merchandising teams to execute and verify product changes such as: retails prices, names, ship dates, ship methods, Bill of Materials and product recipes.
• Interact with Inventory & Planning teams to execute and verify Vendor/product/component shutoffs. As well as order moves and rejects.
• Interact with Vendor Relations team to adjust a vendor cutoff time or shutoff request.
• Responsible for communication to various people in organization regarding stock issues, product changes, such as price, ship method, name, out of stock, etc..
• Balance daily responsibilities with time sensitive/urgent requests such as product code/component code/ setup in oracle, assignment of new vendors to active products. Keeping within the timelines given.
• Demonstrates efficiency by performing procedures rapidly and with accuracy.
• Manages time appropriately.
• Strives to meet departmental goals for completion time including validations
• Participates in departmental quality assurance practices.
• Coordination of data from multiple sources and verification of the integrity of the data

Qualifications:

• Be dependable and have good work ethics with a positive can do attitude.
• Have a collaborative personality and be excited to work with a team to be successful.
• Have the ability to analyze problems, create solutions, and multi task with attention to detail.
• Have a track record of preventative problem solving, while being comfortable with short deadlines and occasional high stress environments
• Exhibits high sense of urgency and ability to manage multiple priorities at once.
• Strong communication, time management, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organizational, written, verbal, and computer literacy skills with advanced Excel skills
• Ability to work well within a team environment.
• Ability to work independently with direction from supervisor
• Willing to work off hours and weekends as business needs dictate

The expected hourly pay range for this position is $23.00/hour-$24.00/hour. The actual compensation will be determined by experience and other factors permitted by the law.