Retail Merchandiser Floater

Job Reference: HMK/1452151

Job Category: Field Operations Positions (Part-time)

**Job Type**: Employee

Location: Winkler, Manitoba

**Experience**:
Date Posted: 12-Feb-2025

**Retail Merchandiser Floater (Part Time) - Winkler, MB R6W 4B6**

Join Hallmark as a Part Time Retail Merchandiser Floater This is your opportunity to represent the world's best-known greeting card brand and play a crucial role in merchandising, creating, and building displays within your territory for a positive shopper experience. We offer you work life integration within the work week, while supporting the business needs. You will be required to service stores based on the scheduling tool you are provided. The Retail Merchandiser Floater will be responsible for the maintenance of Hallmark Canada departments within our pharmacy, grocery or big box retailers.We offer paid: training, and travel time. Are you ready to make your mark?

**Job Summary**:
As a Retail Merchandiser Floater, you'll have the opportunity to work independently to showcase your organization and time management skills, as well as your ability to establish retailer relationships, while being the face of Hallmark. You will collaborate with local store teams to optimise product placement and maintain inventory levels as well as support fellow team members with seasonal resets and installations, when needed. On occasion, Hallmark may ask you to service another vendor's product in a store that you are assigned to. If that is the case, you will be provided detailed instructions and additional budgeted time.

**Responsibilities & Duties**:
You'll perform service work in the Hallmark department of various retail stores such as grocery stores, drug stores, department stores, and mass retailers. The Retail Merchandiser Floater position consists of four major components:

- **Day-to-day engagement**: You are responsible for the entire Hallmark product display at your assigned stores. Utilizing a mobile device provided by Hallmark, you'll restock, organize, and monitor the inventory of Hallmark products within and outside the Hallmark department. While using your mobile device you will also be in communication with your supervisor, reporting time, providing feedback, and answering surveys for required merchandising activities. Professional and courteous interaction with store employees, management, and customers is also vital for success in this role.
- **Holiday support**: Hallmark's operations revolve around seasonal demand. Leading up to and following holidays such as Valentine's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, you can expect additional days and extended hours during the work week. On occasions like Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, and Father's Day, you may be required to work on the actual holiday itself, which may include the weekend.
- **Department Resets**: At times, you may be part of a team responsible for installations and various tasks like building and installing Hallmark fixtures, relocating card departments and products, as well as resetting card sections. Typically, you will be notified two weeks in advance for remodel assignments. This could include evenings or weekend.
- **One Team Vision**: As a field organization, although you are assigned to your specific responsibilities there may be additional work and installation efforts that you will be asked and required to support.

**Physical Requirements**:
This is a physically demanding job that requires a high level of energy and a sense of urgency. You will be working on the selling floor as well as in back stockrooms. You must be able to consistently push, pull, lift, and carry cartons, merchandise, and display fixtures up to 30 pounds throughout the workday and up to 50 pounds on occasion. You will also be required to stoop, squat, walk, and stand throughout your workday, and you may be required to climb stairs and step ladders.

**Basic Qualifications**:

- High School Diploma.
- You have the ability to grasp, pull, lift, and carry products up to 30 pounds frequently and 50 pounds occasionally.
- Able to operate hand-held technology provided to open and read documents and interpret information.
- You have access to a Wi-Fi network and the internet.
- Experience in a retail environment is beneficial.

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