New Store Opening

**Job responsibilities**: **JOB TITLE**:Operations Associate **REPORTS TO**:Boutique Manager / Operations Manager **JOB PURPOSE** The Operations Associate is responsible for maintaining the store’s inventory and stock areas as per Company standards, minimizing stock loss, maintaining organized records, ordering supplies, adhering to housekeeping standards, handling merchandise appropriately, controlling expenses, and safeguarding company assets by following proper inventory control procedures. **TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES** - Ensure that all shipping and receiving functions that affect the store inventory are processed accurately and efficiently. - Maintain an orderly and neat stock and receiving area as well as the general maintenance of the store, ensuring merchandise is properly ticketed and sensored. - Ensure the accurate processing of all inbound freight, returns-to-vendors (RTV's), chargebacks, transfers and damages based on Company policies and procedures. - Support the compliance of receiving practices with established Company policies and standards, such as safekeeping of Company funds and property, personnel practices, security, and record-keeping procedures. - Ensure that the stock is appropriately security tagged to prevent loss. - Communicate with central distribution and/or the corporate inventory control department. - Participate in all inventory and cycle counts. - Assist in floor moves, merchandising, display maintenance, and housekeeping. - Assist in completing price changes within the boutique. - Assist in packing or wrapping customers’ merchandise, when necessary. - Help solve problems and make informed suggestions that affect the service, and productivity of the receiving area. - Comply with all company policies and procedures. - Participate in store meetings and training seminars as necessary. - Any other tasks as assigned from time to time by any manager. **Profile**: **REQUIREMENTS** - Ability to handle receiving operations effectively, including proper handling of merchandise. - Strong interpersonal, communication, organization and follow-through skills. - Ability to read, count, and write to accurately complete all documentation. - Ability to process information and merchandise through computer system. - Ability to adjust priorities and manage time wisely in a fast-paced environment. - Ability to operate all equipment necessary to perform the job, including phone systems, inventory-control computer systems, sensor-tag remover, and all other office equipment. - Ability to work varied hours/days, including nights, weekends, and holidays as needed. - Physical ability to stand for extended periods, and to move and handle boxes of merchandise and fixtures throughout the store, which entails heavy lifting, and perform all functions as set forth above. - Previous retail stock/shipping/receiving experience. **Additional information**: Christian Dior was the designer of dreams. In founding his House in 1947, marked by the revolution of the New Look, he metamorphosed his reveries into wonderful creations. Christian Dior Couture, the Houst of Dreams, is recognized for its French heritage and vibrant culture sublimating its unique Savoir-faire and Creativity through empowering "metiers d’art”. Our Maison is a destination for sustainable growth & success where we shape the future of our Talents in a positive, authentic & generous environment. We bloom & deliver excellence with passion, determination, courage & optimism to offer meaningful & daring codes. Christian Dior Couture is part of the LVMH Group, where People Make the Difference. We value, celebrate, and welcome each unique talent and strive to create an inclusive environment providing all employees a sense of purpose. Beyond your role, we recognize the importance and passion of creating communities with shared values that enrich and impact beyond our organization. As an employee, you will have an opportunity to engage in our employee-led communities such as Sustainability, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Corporate Social Responsibility. Christian Dior Couture provides equal employment opportunities to all employees as part of the LVMH Group, which attaches great importance to ensuring that its Maisons and their partners share a set of common rules, practices, and principles with respect to ethics, social responsibility, and protection of the environment. **_CHRISTIAN DIOR _** **MAISON***: - “Whatever you do - whether for work or pleasure - do it with passion Live with passion,” _wrote Christian Dior. Well before he embarked on his destiny as a couturier, Christian Dior was fascinated with art. The young Normandy native and several friends opened an art gallery when he was just 23. In 1938 he learned the métier of pattern cutter with Robert Piguet and three years later began working as a designer for Lucien Lelong. Right from the founding of his Maison in 1946, he transformed his dreams into irresistible creations, seekin