Google Inventory Team Lead
Mosaic is the leading North American integrated marketing and sales agency, specializing sales, training, experiential, and digital & virtual solutions. At Mosaic, we are never satisfied with the status quo and are in constant search for new ideas and new ways to help our clients build their brands amidst the evolving dynamic of empowered consumers, leveraging new technologies and approaches. Together as a team we deliver for those results to our clients every day. Mosaic is not about standing out from the crowd - we lead it!
The Team Lead, Inventory will be expected to support the Assistant Manager, Inventory. They must combine their passion for great consumer service with inventory excellence to create a world class consumer experience. Team Leads will serve as support for customer escalations, working to effectively and professionally resolve issues, also utilizing those skills to mentor employees on handling escalations. The Team Lead must also have an extensive knowledge of brand products and services in order to effectively empower the associates to drive an interactive consumer experience by promoting the latest brand mobile devices, phones, tablets, wearables and accessories. They will lead the way in delivering a transformational experience in-store by recommending product and service solutions to fit their needs. The Team Lead will work closely with all brand and agency management, as well as associates within the store, to build and maintain strong relationships, maintain morale, while providing the absolute best consumer experience.
Compensation Range: $28-$32 per hour
Essential Functions of this Position:
- Lead and promote radically helpful environment by supporting product flow from receiving to customer
purchase - Supervise and execute operational tasks including cycle counts, replenishment, reporting, visual
standards, stock flow and stockroom organization. - Manage omni-channel systems including buy online and pick up in store.
- Manage spare parts inventory and store supply inventory.
- Process receiving, shipping, transfers including chargebacks and damaged goods.
- Mentor, train and foster team environment to deliver customer centric operational excellence.
- Supervise inventory preparation for new product launches, execute visual merchandising directives
and communicate critical inventory levels. - Work closely with leadership to anticipate and plan for changing inventory and staffing needs.
- Meet & greet customers, assist with sales and complete transactions when necessary.
- Ability to act as first line to de-escalate and resolve customer issues.
- Ability to address and support Inventory associate questions.
Inventory:
- Accountable for adhering to the inventory standards
- Create inventory success through collaboration as a team, not solely as an individual contributor
- Maintain inventory accuracy by identifying and correcting stock variances
- Lead stock and teams through the accurate and timely completion of daily inventory tasks
- Assume responsibility for compliance of all retail inventory processes
- Ensure all stockroom organizational and safety standards are maintained
- Manage efficient and effective handling of all merchandise from shipment receipt, processing, and
planogram floor sets - Review replenishment and in-transit reports to plan for merchandise placement substitution if
needed - Track productivity and ensure the team is meeting company standards for all visual merchandising
tasks - Oversee implementation of all visual merchandising planogram instruction and ensure the
presentation meets brand standards
Supervise personnel to:
- Meet and exceed assigned goals for: consumer experience and reputation, sales and service, revenue
and productivity - Consistently demonstrate excellent interpersonal, leadership, and coaching skills
- Create a work environment where motivated people can excel, exceeding daily ownership goals
- Oversee floor experience - act as floor leader to ensure consumers receive a world-class experience
- Support team and assist with consumer interactions and transactions
- Coach associates on opportunities with consumer interactions, recognize positive performance and
hold associates accountable for poor performance
Management and Development:
- Inspire and engage associates by motivating team to succeed
- Promote passion, pride and commitment
- Lead by example and serve as a resource for product knowledge
- Develop associates for growth and promotion by delegating appropriate responsibilities and
inspecting completion - Coach to all competences to ensure consistency of expectations within location
- Improve associate engagement through appropriate behaviors and actions
- Observe and coach associates to provide feedback around consumer experience technique
effectiveness and providing excellent consumer service - Resolve quickly any fraud issues communicated by security; may involve working with security or
finance team
Product Launches:
- Partner with management and other appropriate parties to successfully launch new products,
services and processes and to review staffing forecast plan - Actively inspect post-launch and drive improved results with best practices
- Inspect that associates are properly trained on new products and promotions to demonstrate and
discuss with confidence - Report concerns with associates’ knowledge and/or behavior, and provide additional coaching and/or
discipline as appropriate - Coordinate with security, facilities and management to ensure smooth product launch-day execution
including operations, staffing and scheduling - Responsible for activity in space at all times
- Employ scheduling tool to properly staff and meet business needs, training and special events such
as product launches.
Compliance:
- Drive compliance of procedures and policies
- Ensure timely completion of required training to empower personnel to succeed
- Implement, execute and inspect existing and new retail programs, tools and training
- Responsible for ensuring the training for associates to ensure they have the appropriate level of
system/tool access for their roles and responsibilities.
Other:
- Manage 6-8 MOD segments per week
- Continuously display high integrity
- Develop strategic perspective and champion change
- Inspire others to high performance through collaboration and teamwork
- Utilize professional expertise to solve problems and analyze issues
- Capture initiative and strive for results
- Assist management in assigning the following: breaks, opening/closing tasks, & holding teamaccountable to their attendance
- Support management needs
- Other duties as assigned.
