Gift Shop Purchasing Coord Job Listing at Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia, SC (Job ID 1365480900)

Description

Gift Shop  
Full Time
Day 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.

• Evaluate stock levels and customer requests to maintain appropriate inventory levels. Works with manager to place orders and meet with vendors. Attends major gift markets as needed.
• Develop new sources for merchandise and makes maximum efforts to maintain comparative buying to ensure the lowest possible cost of merchandise, supplies & equipment.
• Evaluate sales history and develops stock plan and purchases merchandise for designated departments and remains within budget approved by manager.
• Unpacks, verifies orders and prepares merchandise for sale.
• Designs/creates displays and arranges special product to highlight monthly promotions that ensure maximum customer traffic, as well as merchandising inventory daily to ensure sales and store appearance are maintained. Open to feedback from manager and team regarding buying and merchandising.
• Able to open/close our stores in accordance with our store procedures.

• Maintains accurate inventory, stock, markups for assigned departments.
• Assist with orientation and training/utilization of additional gift shop assistants and volunteers as needed.
• 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/backroom as needed.
• 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 demonstrates receptiveness to change while maintaining positive outlook throughout change process.
• Performs all other duties as assigned by manager.

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.