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SalaryWe are well renowned as a retail/wholesale leader and a good responsible corporate citizen in Central Ontario.
Environmentally friendly; Bradford Greenhouses capture rainwater in cisterns for plant watering, heat glass houses with natural solar heat, engage in plastic product recycling, retailer’s plastic collection/recycle program, heat recovery systems on boilers, and composting organic materials for garden soils.
Community aware Bradford Greenhouses is fortunate to provide community support through such items as the Poinsettia Program (school fundraiser), and golf tournament (Roots for Youth Foundation).
Believing that diversity brings in creativity and teamwork, we annually hire a great mix of students, retirees, regular full time, seniors, and seasonal staff who better serve our diverse community.
Bradford Greenhouses offers health/dental benefits, employee discounts, job advancement opportunities, supplemental training, wrapped in a culture of learning and empowering people to be motivated toward company goals.
In today’s modern world, it is an exciting time of change. We are blending core values to create a culture that enhances and enriches a work/life balance with the growing needs of the company. Collectively in this common ground, we can continuously improve to reap the rewards from the “Seeds of Change”.
Here we GROW again! We're looking for a Head Cashier to join our Barrie retail management team! If you are customer service oriented, detailed, and see yourself as a leader...we would love to hear from you!
Reports To:
Store Manager
Summary:
The Head Cashier will provide our customers with a high level of customer service and will be responsible for overseeing the Cash Department and validating checks using an electronic scanner and cash register. He or she is responsible for supervising and training cashiers to ensure store policies and procedures are maintained. Other responsibilities will include ensuring that controlled substances are sold only upon proof of age, monitoring the store’s front-end activities where cashiers are working with respect to loss-prevention and addressing customer concerns in a professional manner. The Head Cashier will act as a Cashier and perform other duties as required.
Core Competencies:
- Customer Focus
- Communication
- Energy and Stress
- Team Work
- Leadership
- Quality Orientation
- Problem Solving
- Accountability and Dependability
- Operating Equipment
- Ethics and Integrity
Job Duties:
- Answer customers' questions.
- Bag, box, wrap, or gift-wrap merchandise.
- Assist with the store and storefront merchandising.
- Compute and record totals of transactions.
- Responsible for knowing and proactively coordinating input of weekly sale items pricing and codes.
- Ensure cashiers know to count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change.
- Establish or identify prices of goods and services, and tabulate bills using calculators, cash registers, or optical price scanners.
- Greet customers entering establishments.
- Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers.
- Supervise and train cashiers.
- Oversee the store’s front-end with respect to loss-prevention.
- Maintain clean and orderly checkout areas.
- Monitor checkout stations to ensure that they have adequate cash available and that they are staffed appropriately.
- Process merchandise returns and exchanges.
- Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.
- Resolve customer complaints.
- Ensure adherence toward Corporate and Departmental targets.
- Responsible for assisting in driving sales.
- Compile and maintain non-monetary reports and records.
- Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.
- Stock shelves, and mark prices on shelves and items.
- Establish training criteria and method of cashier readiness validation.
- Responsible for continuous improvement
- Work in conjunction with Human Resources in the progression and movement of cashiers, including but not limited to, hiring, on-boarding, appraisals, flexibility chart adherence etc.
- Provide clerical assistance in the form of typing, filing, etc.
- Perform minor maintenance work, and clean-up duties.
- Other duties as required.
Requirements:
- High school diploma or GED required.
- 5 years of cashier experience.
- 2 years of supervisory experience preferred.
- Strong customer service and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong knowledge of Store policies and procedures.
- Exceptional conflict resolution, negotiation, and objection handling skills.
- Highly flexible, with solid interpersonal skills that allow one to work effectively in a diverse working environment.
- Effective work habits with minimal supervision.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Able to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing.
- Able to work well under pressure.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Able to deal with people sensitively, tactfully, diplomatically, and professionally at all times.
- Computer literate, including effective working knowledge of MS Word, Excel and e-mail.
- Proven data entry and typing skills.
- Professional appearance and manners.
- Strong work ethic and positive team attitude.
Work Conditions:
- Manual dexterity required.
- Overtime as required.
- Lifting or moving up to 30lbs may be required.
