Clerk - Retail Receiving

• Champions Company and Division customer service programs to meet or exceed Division customer service goals. Promotes Albertson's philosophy of personalized service.
  
• Receives all deliveries and logs into the computer. Breaks downloads from DSD suppliers. May transport products from receiving area to storage, freezer, cooler or sales area.
  
• Ensures cost, quality and inventory controls through verifying orders against invoices, auditing contents of product and using the electronic receiving system to verify costs.
  
• Reconciles vendor invoices to costs on the computer system. Inputs differences by item into the system. Balances all receiving and transmits information to the general office for payment. Maintains invoices and reports in the established filling system according to the record retention schedule. Reviews and accepts only proper and correct orders submitted by outside sales representatives.
  
• Daily reviews emails to review communication from the DSD Coordinator and retrieves vendor invoices.
  
• Prevents shrink, damage and spoilage of product. Repairs and prices damaged product if saleable. Discards or returns damaged product to appropriate vendor as required.
  
• Responsible for the security, sanitation and organization of the receiving, storage and loading dock areas.
  
• Performs training duties. Operates related equipment such as: hand trucks, six- wheel carts, power lifts, pallet jacks, balers, compactors, cutters, pricing guns and computer equipment such as handheld units and stationary CRT units.
  
• May occasionally perform duties such as ordering, stocking, stacking, facing, pricing, marking and rotating of dairy and frozen food items, in the absence of the dairy or frozen food clerks.
  
• Responsible for performing all job duties and responsibilities safely, accurately and with honesty and integrity.
  
• Maintains good working relationship with vendors and delivering personnel.
  
• Other necessary and required duties.
  
• Requires the ability to judge and react to business activity.
  
• Complies with all Company policies including attendance, grooming standards and dress codes.
  
• May utilize cleaning supplies, chemicals and safety cutters.
  
• Complies with all Company policies including attendance, grooming standards and dress codes.
  

• Ability to be friendly, courteous, tactful and maintain composure in dealing with customers, co-workers and vendors. Requires good interpersonal, organizational and verbal and written communication skills. Ability to be a team player. Ability to comprehend and follow written and oral instructions.
  
• Frequently reaches, lifts, stacks and maneuver objects of varying dimensions and weights up to approximately 80 lbs., within the range of floor level to overhead. Ability to push and pull fully loaded hand trucks, six-wheel carts and pallet jacks. Ability to operate related equipment such as: power lifts, balers, compactors, cutters, pricing guns and computer equipment. Ability to operate 10-key and type on a keyboard.
  
• Ability to stand up for long periods of time, walk and move rapidly, bend, stoop, twist and turn frequently. May claim ladders. Manual dexterity and good eye-hand coordination are necessary.
  
• Mental alertness is required to ensure safe, accurate completion of work activities and to do repetitious work accuracy.
  
• Requires knowledge of basic mathematics. Requires a good understanding of Company policies and procedures regarding receiving, ordering, stocking, merchandising, pricing, inventory control and product warehousing/storage. Requires product knowledge including seasonality and perishability. Requires knowledge of product movement and factors impacting gross margins.
  
• Ability to work early mornings, weekends and holidays. Regular attendance is required.
  

• Some exposure to varying temperatures while working in the loading/receiving area. Occasional exposure to 28Ëš Fahrenheit while handling products in the cooler and - 20Ëš Fahrenheit in the freezer.
  
• Exposure to potential hazards exists with respect to equipment, tools and work aids necessary to perform job duties.
  
• Work environment consists of a backroom receiving area. Exposure to varying temperatures while working in the loading and receiving area. Occasional exposure to outside temperature of varying temperatures while assisting with unloading.
  

Job responsibilities include tasks or duties that could affect the safety or health of the employee performing the task or others.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the associates assigned to this job. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all requirements and skills required of associates so classified. The responsibilities and skills required of personnel so classified may vary within each store and/or from store to store.