Area Supervisor

Area Supervisor

Our values start with our people, join a team that values you. Bring your talents to Ross, our leading off-price retail chain with over 2,200 stores, and a strong track record of success and growth. Our focus has always been bringing our customers a constant stream of high-quality brands and on-trend merchandise at extraordinary savings. All while providing a fun and exciting treasure hunt experience. As part of our team, you will experience : success, career growth, teamwork, and our commitment to diversity, equality & inclusion, and our community. We celebrate the backgrounds, identities, and ideas of those who work and shop with us because our differences make us stronger. We strive to be a positive force in our community.

General Purpose : The Area Supervisor is a member of the Store Leadership who is responsible for a specific, assigned area of the store as well as the general operations and supervision of the store when functioning as the Manager on Duty. Area Supervisors are responsible for opening and closing the store, supervising associates, and maintaining a friendly, easy to shop environment. They ensure proper merchandise presentation, and maintain a clean work area at all times. Area Supervisors are also responsible for executing and supervising company operational processes as needed.

Essential Functions :

• Maintaining Safe & Secure Environments :
• Treats all customers, associates, and other leaders with respect.
• Demonstrates courtesy, friendliness, and professionalism at all times.
• Represents and supports the company brand at all times.
• Maintains a professional appearance, in accordance with company dress code.
• Keeps all areas of the store clean, well-maintained, and merchandised to standard.
• Responsible for daily trash removal.
• Ensures recovery, sizing and markdowns are completed to company standards through teaching, assigning tasks, and following up per company best practice.
• Responsible for receiving merchandise truck when needed.
• Processes all merchandise with a sense of urgency.
• Responsible for receipt of all non-merchandise inbound deliveries.
• Responsible for cleanliness and organization of all stockrooms.
• Helps deliver and place merchandise on sales floor when all merchandise is processed.
• Responsible for ensuring any back-stock is secured and processed to company policy.
• Responsible for merchandising of department including the back stock.
• Responsible for the reduction of loss due to damage.
• Ensures compliance to the monthly presentation guidelines in assigned area.
• Responsible for floor moves and signing including promotional signing as needed.
• Responsible for re-wraps as needed.
• Understands and complies with the Loss Prevention Awareness Program and is responsible for store loss prevention which includes maintaining a large customer service presence on the sales floor, customer and associate engagement and heightened loss prevention awareness.
• As a representative of Ross leadership, demonstrates integrity and honesty in all interactions with associates and customers. Safeguards confidential information, cash and credit card information and merchandise.
• Ensures public view monitor system is maintained properly.
• Conducts "Code 50" package inspections.
• Executes all company best practices and maximizes productivity by minimizing steps and touches while working.
• Executes all company best practices and maximizes productivity by minimizing steps and extra touches when working. Ensures associates are executing to company standards at the front end.
• Maintains pace, energy and "presence" at the front end, managing the line to expedite customers wait time.
• Trains and coach associates on cash registers, shortage control policies and other front end procedures. To meet friendly and productivity standards.
• Controls retail associates' break schedule for backups, lunches and breaks.
• Ensures all equipment is working properly.
• Maintains proper supplies and recovery for the front end area.
• Ensures go backs are expedited, properly scanned, security tagged and ticketed.
• Teaches all associates the "scan and bag" best practice.
• Ensures salability of merchandise on the front end, aisle tables, men's / women's 4-way features, and specialty racks.
• Responsible for the maintenance and cleanliness of the fitting rooms.
• Ensures all fitting room garment tags are audited and accounted for to company policy.
• Ensures go-back compliance throughout the day. All merchandise returned to the sales floor must be ticketed, scanned, nubbed and security tagged as needed.

Administrative Duties as Assigned by Store Manager :

Competencies :

Qualifications and Special Skills Required :

Physical Requirements / ADA :

Supervisory Responsibilities : Retail Associates Stockroom Leads (where applicable).

Disclaimer : This job description is a summary of the primary duties and responsibilities of the job and position. It is not intended to be a comprehensive or all-inclusive listing of duties and responsibilities. Contents are subject to change at management's discretion. Ross is an equal employment opportunity employer. We consider individuals for employment or promotion according to their skills, abilities and experience. We believe that it is an essential part of the company's overall commitment to attract, hire and develop a strong, talented and diverse workforce. Ross is committed to complying with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religious creed, age, national origin, ancestry, physical, mental or developmental disability, sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), veteran status, military status, marital or registered domestic partnership status, medical condition (including cancer or genetic characteristics), genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, as well as any other category protected by federal, state or local laws.