Seasonal Product Operations Lead
Job Description
The Seasonal Product Operations Lead partners with store leadership to execute the store product strategy through inventory processing, back-of-house product operations, and floor readiness. This role supports guest experience by ensuring products are accurately stocked, organized, and available to drive sell-through.
Role Focus
- Execute the store product strategy through product operations and inventory management.
- Lead inventory shifts and ensure product accuracy across both floor and back of house.
- Serve as Supervisor on Duty during scheduled open hours when assigned.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with store leadership to translate product strategy into daily execution.
- Plan, prioritize, manage, and lead inventory processing and accuracy activities in alignment with standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Ensure completion of product actions such as pull backs, consolidations, and repricing.
- Create a fun and productive atmosphere for the shift while engaging team members in inventory management.
- Monitor product levels and communicate findings to support sell-through strategy and optimal product availability for guests.
- Review and interpret daily business data and metrics to inform actions, including recommendations to store leadership on product focus and, for outlets, pricing.
- Participate in the store hiring process, including recruitment, selection, hiring recommendations, onboarding, and training.
- Address team member performance through direct feedback, in-the-moment recognition, coaching, demonstrations, and hands-on learning experiences.
- Build a respectful and inclusive team environment by establishing supportive working relationships.
- When scheduled as Supervisor on Duty during open hours, move dynamically between the floor and operational areas to ensure technical product education and a world-class guest experience.
Requirements
- Legally authorized to work in the country where the store is located.
- Ability to travel to the assigned store using reliable transportation.
- 1 year of work experience.
- Some experience with inventory management and/or product or visual merchandising, stocking, or planning and logistics, including using business technology to complete work.
- Some experience leading, mentoring, delegating, or implementing processes with others.
- Variable schedule based on store needs, with shifts typically scheduled for mornings, afternoons, evenings, weekends, and holidays.
- During peak timeframes, special events, or other circumstances, the schedule may include early mornings and/or late nights or overnights for some team members.
Work Environment & Physical Demands
- Work includes moving through the store, including front-of-house areas with bright lights and loud music, and back-of-house areas with no windows or natural light.
- Work is performed as part of a team, sometimes independently, and may involve using a computer or other technical devices.
- Occasional lifting or moving of boxes weighing up to 30 lbs (13.6 kg), and use of ladders to reach materials.
- For experiential stores with food or beverage service only: work may involve industrial kitchen equipment and exposure to heat to prepare food or beverages.
Benefits & Perks
- Extended health and dental benefits, and mental health plans.
- Paid time off.
- Savings and retirement plan matching.
- Generous employee discount.
- Fitness and yoga classes.
- Parenthood top-up.
- Extensive catalog of development course offerings.
- People networks, mentorship programs, and leadership series.
Compensation
- Base Pay Range: $24.00 - $27.61/hour, subject to minimum wage in the location.
- Target Bonus: $2.00/hour.
- Total Target Base Pay Range: $26.00 - $29.61/hour.
- Compensation is grounded in a pay-for-performance philosophy recognizing exceptional individual and team performance.
- Base pay is based on market location and may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and internal equity.
- Employees in this position may be eligible for a competitive bonus program, subject to program eligibility requirements.
- Incentive programs, benefits, and perks may be altered at any time without advance notice.
Nice-to-Have (Job Assets)
- High school diploma/GED/equivalent or above.
- Experience in retail, sales, distribution center, or warehouse operations related to reviewing and interpreting business reports and metrics to inform action.
- For experiential stores with food or beverage service only: food safety and/or liquor service certification.
What Success Looks Like
- Inclusion & Diversity: Creates and supports an inclusive environment that values and celebrates differences.
- Integrity: Behaves in an honest, fair, and ethical manner.
- Adaptability/Agility: Navigates uncertainty and ambiguity, adjusts priorities in a fast-paced environment, and recovers quickly from setbacks.
- Leadership: Leads and inspires others by motivating, empowering, developing, and directing people.
- Collaboration and Teamwork: Supports others to achieve shared goals and seeks connections, partnerships, and diverse perspectives.
- Decision Making/Problem Solving: Identifies improvement opportunities, evaluates alternatives, and makes effective, timely decisions.
- Planning and Organizing: Plans and organizes work clearly and efficiently to complete tasks aligned with priorities.
- Interactive Communication: Conveys information effectively and understands information shared while interacting with others.