Gift Shop Purchasing Coord Job Listing at Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia, SC (Job ID 1343321600)

Description

Gift Shop  
Full Time
AM Shift 
40

Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare and was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care. Consistently ranked as best in the Columbia Metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Health delivers more than 4,000 babies each year, performs more than 34,000 surgeries annually and is the region's third largest employer.

Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state's first HeartCARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer's care center. Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship.

The Gift Shop Purchasing Coordinator needs a sense of retail, product trends and analytical experience. Assist with annual development of merchandise and stock plans with manager. Provides work leadership for gift Shop Assistants and Volunteers. Responsibilities include purchasing, processing, displaying and rotating merchandise, stock room organization, work often enough in shop to be familiar with needs and wants of customers.

• Minimum Education: High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Minimum Years of Experience:  2 Years in retail/customer service
• Substitutable Education & Experience:  2 Years of experience can be substituted for a 2 Year Degree
• Required Certifications/Licensure:  None
• Required Training:  Emphasis on purchasing and merchandise design;  Mid-level computer skills required with emphasis on Excel, Word and Point of Sale;  Ability to function in a team environment;  Excellent customer service skills.

• Ability to evaluate stock levels and customer requests in order to maintain appropriate inventory levels.  Works with manager to place orders and meet with salesmen.
• Develops new sources for merchandise and makes maximum efforts to maintain comparative buying to ensure the lowest possible cost of merchandise.
• Develops basic stock ordering plan for department.
• Ability to evaluate sales history and requests using judgment and prudent purchasing concepts to select merchandise.
• Responsible for purchasing merchandise for designated departments and remains within budget. The gift shop manager should approve all buying plans.
• Assists with scheduling appointments with salesmen as needed and arranging for orders to be delivered on a timely basis.
• Responsible for unpacking, verifying orders and preparing merchandise for sale.
• Responsible for rotation of staple merchandise on a weekly basis. Assist with rotation of other stock as needed.
• Responsible for design of creative and attractive displays to attract customers. Arranges special displays to highlight monthly promotions that ensure maximum customer traffic.
• Travels to major market at least twice a year. Ability to project stock needs and coordinate  merchandise arrival with budget and seasonal needs.
• Purchases seasonal decorations for the Auxiliary to be used in the hospital. Assists with coordination of decorations throughout the hospital.
• Responsible for the closing of the shop each day. Prepares payroll and credit card tickets for processing. Wraps coins and collects cash from each drawer and places all monies and receipts in safe. Closes registers and assures that shop is locked and secure before leaving.
• Maintains assigned markup standards.
• Maintains position of the department in overall shop sales.
• Responsible for maintaining accurate inventory of merchandise and supplies in the gift shops.
• Assist with orientation and training/utilization of additional gift shop assistants and volunteers as needed.
• Open to suggestions for merchandising and buying from the manager.
• Works often enough in the shop as a clerk to be familiar with the needs and wants of customers as well as their comments and requests. Remains current on policies and procedures that pertain to sales transactions. Able to assists volunteers and gift shop assistants with questions about point of sale system.
• Responsible for stock room organization. Cleans and dusts shop as needed.
• Assists with taking inventory in the shops.
• Demonstrates communication knowledge/skills necessary to provide services to the age of patients served.
• Assists manager or other authorized personnel with related duties as needed.
• Performs all other duties as assigned by authorized personnel or as required in an emergency, e.g. fire or disaster.
• Maintains optimistic and professional image and exhibits excellent customer relations skills to patients, visitors, physicians and co-workers. Shows courtesy, compassion and respect. Conforms to Service Excellence policy and “House Rules.”
• Participates in quality and improvement activities.
• Assists and supports the Auxiliary as requested by the manager.
• Demonstrates receptiveness to change and maintains positive outlook throughout change process.
• Contributes to department effectiveness by planning and organizing work to be timely and accurate.
• Cost effectively utilizes resources and appropriately accounts for supplies and equipment.

We are committed to offering quality, cost-effective benefits choices for our employees and their families:

• Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits 
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one.  LHI matches dollar for dollar up to 6%.
• Employer paid life insurance – equal to 1x salary
• Employee may elect supplemental life insurance with low cost premiums up to 3x salary 
• Adoption assistance
• LHI provides its full-time employees employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment
• Tuition reimbursement
• Student loan forgiveness

Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Lexington Health to provide equal opportunity of employment for all individuals, and to remain compliant with applicable state and federal laws and regulations. Lexington Health strives to provide a discrimination-free environment, and to recruit, select, on-board, and employ all employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, veteran status, or pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including but not limited to, lactation. Lexington Health endeavors to upgrade and promote employees from within the hospital where possible and consistent with the employee's desires and abilities and the hospital's needs.