Gift Department Associate

Retail

Join a dynamic and fast growing team!

The gift and home décor department is growing and is looking for help.

About Us:

We are a locally owned and operated chain of Ace Hardware stores and it is our mission to promote the “Neighbors Serving Neighbors” environment. Our culture celebrates employee creativity and ideas, all while delivering an outstanding customer experience. With a dynamic atmosphere that welcomes diversity, we are investing in our employees, along with the growth of our company. We also celebrate a culture of recognition, encouraging employees to recognize and thank one another for remarkable behavior.

General Summary:

Our Gift Processing Team is responsible for handling the Gift/Home Decor area of the store. Responsibilities involve maximizing departmental sales and profitability, minimizing expenses, and ensuring that their department is optimally stocked and merchandised. This involves processing the items from start to finish and light merchandising. Gift Processors will also ensure that their department is full, product is pulled from backstock, department floors, shelves, and fixtures are clean, and all products are labeled appropriately. Additionally, this role will ensure that this area provides the highest level of customer service and attention to the customer. The ideal candidate will have a keen eye for accuracy and completeness in their work, and will share our goal to “Amaze Every Customer Every Time.”

Job responsibilities include but not limited to:

· Processing new gift and home décor product after it arrives

· Inspect and price every item

· Submit damage claims to vendors

· Maintain back stock on merchandise

· Merchandising and display of product

Benefits:

· Ongoing paid Training and Development

· Opportunities for Advancement

· Fantastic Team Environment

· Great Starting Salaries & Generous Employee Discount

We are proud to be the only locally owned Ace store in the area - our associates find themselves in an engaging environment where they are free of corporate handcuffs and are empowered to do their job without red tape. We have one simple mission and we are simply "Neighbors Serving Neighbors."

Position Requirements:

· Strong computer skills

· Willingness to learn a vast knowledge of consumable products

· Experience in a retail environment preferred

· Excellent communication skills, high attention to detail, and ability to multitask

· Ability and willingness to work flexible hours including evenings, weekends and holidays to meet the needs of the business

· Ability to stand for an extended period of time

· Able to walk, reach, climb ladders, and bend to perform job duties

· Able to lift up to 50 pounds frequently

· Visual merchandising experience is a plus

Company Introduction

Be a part of our story....
Like most people, we love a great story. Our community has given us a great story that we get to live every day!
It started in Clarkston in 2016 and now we are in Commerce too! More to come!!!
Welcome to Ace Hardware of Clarkston and Ace Hardware of Commerce! The Area's only locally owned and operated Ace Hardware. We are neighbors serving neighbors. The Clarkston location has a long history - first opening as a Damman Hardware back in the early 90's, then becoming Ace some 10 years later. As with life, chapters have a beginning and and ending, and in early 2016 the prior owners made the choice to close the store. As local residents with hardware experience, we jumped at the chance to re-open the store to serve our community! After several months of extensive renovation and updating, we re-opened the store as "Ace Hardware of Clarkston" in October of 2016. Local residents now have the option to buy local and stay local.
We loved the relationship we created with our community through our store, so we decided to do it again in 2022! After several more months of extensive renovation and updating, we reopened the store as Ace Hardware of Commerce and gave local residents the opportunity to buy local and stay local once again.
We believe that you cannot beat the service and personal touch of a hardware store of a store owned and operated by your neighbors. We are proud to be the only locally owned store in the Area - when your local store is run by your neighbors, instead of a huge corporation - you will feel the difference immediately as a customer and as an associate. Our Family looks forward to serving the community for many years to come!
It’s been very humbling for our family to see the warm welcome the community has shown our family, our staff and our store. Within our first year we were named the area’s top Hardware Store by readers of the Clarkston News and have received that award every year since. We have been awarded the Pinnacle Performance award every year from Ace Hardware since our first year - as one of the best performing Ace stores in the country, and have been awarded the Clarkston Community Collaboration Award for our humanitarian efforts in Clarkston. In our second year we were awarded the Beacon Award by our industry as one of the best new store's in the nation. In January 2023, we were recognized by the Ace Hardware Corporation as The Coolest Hardware Store 2023!
None of our success would be possible without our team! We are proud of our diverse team made up of all ages and backgrounds. We enjoy mentoring our new high school students, and enjoy learning from our senior staff, some of whom are approaching 80!
We simply are here to serve our community - and thank you for considering us for your future employment!
As we develop our second store in Commerce Township - we are eager to grow our team and serve even more neighbors in Commerce and the surrounding areas.
Best Regards,
The Haley Family