Borsheims is seeking a full-time Central Receiving - Inventory Associate to join our team. This role is essential in delivering our Signature Service to every customer. The Central Receiving Associate is responsible for receiving, inspecting, verifying, and processing incoming merchandise while maintaining accurate inventory records and documentation. This position works closely with buyers, sales associates, and support departments to ensure merchandise is properly tracked, tagged, distributed, and accounted for throughout its lifecycle. The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, and enjoys working behind the scenes to support store operations and inventory accuracy.
Job Duties
- Receive, inspect, and process incoming merchandise and correspondence.
- Record and maintain merchandise information in receiving and inventory systems to ensure accurate inventory control.
- Reconcile merchandise with purchase orders, invoices, special orders, and other supporting documentation.
- Generate inventory tags, verify merchandise information, and distribute merchandise to the appropriate departments and personnel.
- Answer questions regarding merchandise, inventory levels, pricing, policies, and transaction history.
- Photograph and maintain image records for designated merchandise using the computerized imaging system.
- Process customer returns, special orders, layaways, vendor returns, shipping transactions, and trade-in merchandise.
- Assist in maintaining inventory accuracy through audits, transfer tracking, cycle counts, and annual physical inventory.
- Follow established security procedures while handling merchandise and inventory.
- Support additional department projects and responsibilities as assigned.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Excellent organizational and time-management skills.
- Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Comfortable learning inventory systems and processing detailed merchandise information.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle high-value merchandise responsibly.
- Previous inventory, receiving, retail operations, logistics, or administrative experience preferred.
Essential Job Functions
- Ability to work assigned schedule on a regular basis.
- Ability to communicate with customers, co-workers, and business contacts in a courteous and professional manner.
- Ability to see well enough to read small print and read a computer screen and printout.
- Ability to hear and speak well enough to converse with others in person, via telephone and paging system.
- Ability to move about the store from department to department, get behind narrow counter areas, bend down, or reach up into drawers/shelves, and climb a ladder to retrieve files from shelves.
- Dexterity to write in small print, operate a computer keyboard, and operate office equipment.
- Stamina to sit for over eight hours.
- Ability to lift and carry approximately 20 lbs.
