Retail Merchandise Intern
Position: Retail Merchandise Intern
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Reports To: GM of Merchandise
Location: Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory
Pay: $15.00
Position Summary:
Support role to General Manager of Merchandise at Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory Retail Department. This position assists with daily merchandise flow from warehouse to retail sales floor ensuring every visitor has access to browse and purchase any available retail products. Merchandising of all products in a timely, accurate and visually appealing manner. Receiving incoming shipments and preparing products for the sales floor. Assisting in item fulfillment of online orders. Other beneficial skills for this role include: attention to detail, creativity, punctuality, technologically and mathematically apt.
Essential Functions
- Providing timely and accurate assistance in the daily restock of all products in the Museum Store and the Bat Shop. Products include Personalized Bats, Mini-Bats, Apparel, Souvenirs, Hats, Autographed Memorabilia.
- Ensures accuracy and timeliness of all product received, such as:
- Picking up incoming shipments daily (often 2-3 times/day)
- Prepping product for sales floor (tag/label/hang/back stock)
- Picking up core products from Factory (Personalized Bats, Mini-Bats) and stocking in store daily. Then storing excess stock in an organized and accessible manner.
- Communicates product related issues such as low or out of stock, damages, over or short receiving.
- Leverages Counterpoint point of sale system to maintain an accurate and consistent flow of product to retail sales floor.
- Conduct physical inventories as scheduled, needed or on request of the Product Manager.
- Team player within the retail department and companywide.
Requirements:
- College Student
- Strong work ethic, punctual, and adaptable to change on short notice.
- Above average organization skills, attention to detail, and creativity.
- Able to lift 50lbs repeatedly and stand for long periods of time.
Competencies Required For This Position:
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
Two Core Competencies for all H&B Employees:
Sportsmanship – Achieves greatness by living the values of team sports which includes self-confidence, hard work, dedication and treating others with respect.
Business Expertise – Knows their business; has technical expertise and skill. Understands this industry; its standards, practices and processes. Demonstrates mastery of required job-related knowledge and mastery in performing essential job requirements. Understands the relationship of their business unit to Company.
Job Specific Competencies:
Creativity/Innovation – Generates and/or recognizes imaginative or creative solutions. Is open minded. Exhibits constructive, non-traditional thinking. Demonstrates initiative, and the ability to find information or solutions needed for assignments or projects. Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas.
Customer Focus – Able to listen to and understand as well as meet the needs of external and internal customers and business partners. Gives customer’s needs priority and follows through. Builds positive and fruitful customer relationships. Does not allow internal company issues or personal feelings to interfere with customer service.
Organizing Skills – Puts resources or processes into logical, comprehensible, and aesthetically pleasing order. Can plan events, tasks or processes in well-ordered manner. Attends to all details. Seeks and finds all resources needed to successfully implement a task, event or plan, bringing all together into an organized and well-executed endeavor.
Time Management – Spends time on what is important. Comfortably delegates tasks and responsibility. Produces excellent results despite time restraints. Capable of managing and prioritizing both everyday details and broad level, longer term responsibilities.