Job Description

Join Hallmark as a Part-Time Retail Installation Merchandiser Floater in Hyattsville, MD! This is your opportunity to represent the world's best-known greeting card brand and play a crucial role in merchandising, creating, and building displays within a territory for a positive shopper experience. We offer you work life integration within the work week, while supporting the business needs.  You will be required to service stores based on the reset schedule within a territory.  We offer paid: training, travel time, and mileage reimbursement. Are you ready to make your mark?

JOB OVERVIEW
As a Retail Installation Merchandise Floater, you'll have the opportunity to work independently or with a team to showcase your organization and time management skills, your ability to establish retailer relationships, while being the face of Hallmark.  In this role, you will be provided a schedule in advance as to the accounts that you will service.  This work includes removing product, dismantling, and rebuilding fixtures, and placing new product back up on display.  This could include a small reset limited to a 4ft fixture or up to a total department reset.  Your on-site Installation Supervisor will assign workflow and tasks to each Hallmarker on the team.  During peak seasons, you will collaborate with local store teams to optimize product placement and maintain inventory levels as well as support fellow team members with seasonal resets and installations, when needed. On occasion Hallmark may ask you to service another vendor's product in a store that you are assigned to. If that is the case, you will be provided details on what needs to be done and additional budgeted time.

SALARY AND SHIFT DETAILS

• Your starting pay will be between $17.50 - $18.50 depending on your shift and location.
• This is a Part-Time position with a variable schedule, primarily daytime shifts during the work week which may include evenings on occasion.
• The scope of work, work site and weekly hours can vary.  For example:  A reset activity could be 3 consecutive days, 8 hours each day. Or, it could be 1 shift for 6 hours.  You will be scheduled reset activities approximately 2 weeks in advance.
• On rare occasions, there may be overnight travel.
• Weekly hours for this position is between 5 – 10 hours per week
• Availability the week before and after major holidays, which may include weekends is required.

YOUR ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE  

You'll perform service work in the Hallmark department of various retail stores such as grocery stores, drug stores, department stores, and mass retailers. The Installation merchandiser Floater position consists of three major components:

1. Reset day engagement:  As part of the installation team, you are responsible for the assigned reset activity for that account which could include assembling fixtures and product merchandising.  Utilizing a mobile device provided by Hallmark, you'll scan and restock, organize, and set the Hallmark products within and outside the Hallmark department.  While using your mobile device you will also be in communication with your supervisor, reporting time, providing feedback, and answering surveys for required merchandising activities. Professional and courteous interaction with store employees, management, and customers is also vital for success in this role.
2. Holiday support: Hallmark's operations revolve around seasonal demand. Leading up to and following holidays such as Valentine's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, you may be required to work additional days and extended hours during the work week. On occasions like Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, and Father's Day, you may be required to work on the actual holiday itself, which may include the weekend.
3. One Team Vision:  As a field organization although you are assigned to your specific responsibilities there may be additional work and other service efforts that you will be asked and required to support.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

This is a physically demanding job that requires a high level of energy and a sense of urgency. You will be working on the selling floor as well as in back stockrooms. You must be able to consistently push, pull, lift, and carry cartons, merchandise, and display fixtures up to 30 pounds throughout the workday and up to 50 pounds on occasion. You will also be required to stoop, squat, walk, and stand throughout your workday, and you may be required to climb stairs and step ladders.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• You're at least 18 years of age.
• You're able to read, write and understand English.
• You have the ability to grasp, pull, lift, and carry products up to 30 pounds frequently and 50 pounds occasionally.
• Able to operate hand-held technology provided to open and read documents and interpret information.
• You have access to a Wi-Fi network and the internet.
• You have reliable transportation to report to assigned locations.

Now's your chance to Make Your Mark—just follow the instructions below to apply.

You must show how you meet the basic qualifications in a resume or document you upload, or by completing the work experience and education application fields. Accepted file types are DOCX and PDF.

Part-time employees with a work schedule less than 30 hours have access to a variety of voluntary benefits through Voluntary Benefits [mercerindigo.com]; including dental, vision, critical illness, accident insurance, hospital indemnity and minimum essential coverage (preventive care).