Team Lead, Inventory & Visuals

Mosaic is the leading North American integrated marketing and sales agency, specializing sales, training, experiential, and digital & virtual solutions. At Mosaic, we are never satisfied with the status quo and are in constant search for new ideas and new ways to help our clients build their brands amidst the evolving dynamic of empowered consumers, leveraging new technologies and approaches. Together as a team we deliver for those results to our clients every day. Mosaic is not about standing out from the crowd - we lead it!

The Team Lead, Inventory & Visuals will be expected to support the Assistant Store Manager, Operations. They must combine their passion for great consumer service with visual and inventory excellence to execute a seamless product lifecyle. Team Leads will serve as support for customer escalations, working to effectively and professionally resolve issues, also utilizing those skills to mentor employees on handling escalations. The Team Lead must also have an extensive knowledge of brand products and services in order to effectively empower the associates to drive an interactive consumer experience by promoting the latest brand mobile devices, phones, tablets, wearables and accessories. They will lead the way in delivering a transformational experience in-store by recommending product and service solutions to fit their needs. The Team Lead will work closely with all brand and agency management, as well as associates within the store, to build and maintain strong relationships, maintain morale, while providing the absolute best consumer experience.

Essential Functions of this Position:

• Supervise inventory preparation for new product launches, execute visual merchandising directives and communicate critical inventory levels.
• Supervise and execute operational tasks including cycle counts, replenishment, reporting, visual standards, stock flow and stockroom organization.
• Lead and promote radically helpful environment by supporting product flow from receiving to customer purchase
• Manage omni-channel systems including buy online and pick up in store.
• Mentor, train and foster team environment to deliver customer centric operational excellence.
• Work closely with leadership to anticipate and plan for changing inventory and staffing needs.
• Ability to address and support Inventory associate questions.

Inventory:

• Accountable for adhering to the inventory standards
• Create inventory success through collaboration as a team, not solely as an individual contributor
• Maintain inventory accuracy by identifying and correcting stock variances
• Lead stock and teams through the accurate and timely completion of daily inventory tasks
• Assume responsibility for compliance of all retail inventory processes
• Ensure all stockroom organizational and safety standards are maintained
• Manage efficient and effective handling of all merchandise from shipment receipt, processing, and planogram floor sets
• Review replenishment and in-transit reports to plan for merchandise placement substitution if needed
• Track productivity and ensure the team is meeting company standards for all visual merchandising tasks

Visuals:

• Execute implementation of all visual merchandising planogram instruction and ensure the presentation meets brand standards.
• Maintain brand standards for visual presentation throughout store (window displays, signs, interior displays, floor plans and special promotions displays).
• Collaborate with store and brand managers to prepare for and implement seasonal merchandising resets and new visual merchandising initiatives.

Supervise personnel to:

• Meet and exceed assigned goals for: consumer experience and reputation, sales and service, revenue and productivity
• Consistently demonstrate excellent interpersonal, leadership, and coaching skills
• Create a work environment where motivated people can excel, exceeding daily ownership goals
• Oversee floor experience - act as floor leader / MOD to ensure consumers receive a world-class experience
• Support team and assist with consumer interactions and transactions
• Coach associates on opportunities with consumer interactions, recognize positive performance and hold associates accountable for poor performance

Management and Development:

• Inspire and engage associates by motivating team to succeed
• Promote passion, pride and commitment
• Lead by example and serve as a resource for product knowledge
• Develop associates for growth and promotion by delegating appropriate responsibilities and inspecting completion
• Coach to all competences to ensure consistency of expectations within location
• Improve associate engagement through appropriate behaviors and actions
• Observe and coach associates to provide feedback around consumer experience technique effectiveness and providing excellent consumer service
• Resolve quickly any fraud issues communicated by security; may involve working with security or finance teams

Product Launches:

• Partner with management and other appropriate parties to successfully launch new products, services and processes and to review staffing forecast plan
• Actively inspect post-launch and drive improved results with best practices
• Inspect that associates are properly trained on new products and promotions to demonstrate and discuss with confidence
• Report concerns with associates’ knowledge and/or behavior, and provide additional coaching and/or discipline as appropriate
• Coordinate with security, facilities and management to ensure smooth product launch-day execution including operations, staffing and scheduling
• Responsible for activity in space at all times

Compliance:

• Drive compliance of procedures and policies
• Ensure timely completion of required training to empower personnel to succeed
• Implement, execute and inspect existing and new retail programs, tools and training
• Responsible for ensuring the training for associates to ensure they have the appropriate level of system/tool access for their roles and responsibilities.

Other:

• Manage 6-8 MOD segments per week
• Continuously display high integrity
• Develop strategic perspective and champion change
• Inspire others to high performance through collaboration and teamwork
• Utilize professional expertise to solve problems and analyze issues
• Capture initiative and strive for results
• Assist management in assigning the following: breaks, opening/closing tasks, & holding team accountable to their attendance
• Support management needs
• Other duties as assigned.