Mesa Store General Application

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Overview

SummerWinds Associates act with integrity and passionately embrace and promote our We Guarantee Success culture!

The SummerWinds Associate uses their business, leadership and people skills to inspire exceptional store performance. This includes maximizing sales, profits and our customers’ experiences. Furthermore, the associate is accountable for error-free cash register operations, payment processing, and interactions with customers, including answering customer questions with regard to plant products and merchandise within the store.

SummerWinds Vision

Provide an exceptional shopping experience for our customers through high-quality plants, unique garden décor, and outdoor-living merchandise all in an inviting atmosphere that makes shopping fun and the garden a success.

SummerWinds Outstanding Teamwork Guidelines

SummerWinds associates strive to demonstrate the following outstanding customer service and life skills at every opportunity and:

• Are people oriented, friendly, honest and respectful
• Are engaged and ready to go
• Are willing to coach and be coached
• Embrace teamwork and understand that together, we can accomplish more than we can alone
• Are professional and act with clear, customer-oriented intentions
• Recognize that what you put in is what you get out
• Are willing to help colleagues and customers alike
• Foster an environment that creates learning, growth and fun in our locations and for our communities

Specific Duties:

A SummerWinds associate offers outstanding customer service and goes out of their way to make sure that everyone who enters our store feels welcome. The Associate can expect to:

• Utilize Point of Sale (POS) system to accurately enter customer purchases/sales & payments
• Understand SummerWinds Customer Loyalty Program and promote/educate all customers who come through your checkout line
• Answer multi-line phone cheerfully
• Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures, policies and products
• Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change
• Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers
• Process merchandise returns and exchanges
• Resolve customer complaints
• Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales
• Maintain clean and orderly checkout areas
• General purpose nursery worker
• Customer carryout
• Stocking of all material
• Outstanding customer service
• Watering, general care of green material
• Overall store & parking lot upkeep
• Assist with other projects as needed

• Must have some plant knowledge
• Must be able to work independently
• Must be a self-starter with the ability to start and complete tasks with little supervision
• Flexibility in accepting a variety of tasks and projects
• Must have previous experience with a POS system

Physical Requirements:

SummerWinds associates are:

• Able to lift a minimum of 20 pounds without assistance
• Able to stand, sit and/or walk for long periods of time/all day

Environment / Other:

SummerWinds associates:

• Work both outdoors and indoors
• Participate in additional projects, when needed
• Maintain a professional appearance
• Use Company equipment (e.g. computers) for business purposes only

What SummerWinds Offers:

• Competitive pay starting at $15.00/ hour
• Group Accident and Critical Illness plans through Colonial Life
• A 401(k) Retirement Plan with generous employer match
• Product discount
• A flexible and friendly work environment
• Favorable retail work schedule with no night shifts
• Career development opportunities

Salary : $15 - $16