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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN Gift Shop and Gallery Assistant Manager in Austin, Texas
Merchandise daily shipments onto the sales floor while maintaining high visual merchandising standards. Set the floor for all sales and promotions. Assist Gift Shop manager with floor plans for displays. Assist with inventory control, including data entry, markdowns, markups, transfers, and ordering and receiving shipments. Responsible for ticketing of all merchandise. Lead annual physical year-end inventory. Maintain stockroom and fixtures. Enter markdowns into system through price sheets and promos.Open and close store. Assist in completing the deposit each night in Counterpoint. Assist with completing the report in DEFINE nightly.Train, schedule, and manage all volunteers: schedule volunteers on weekly basis to ensure adequate coverage of registers and sales floor. Provide initial training of volunteers, as well as ongoing refreshers. Regularly maintain accurate and up-to-date information on registers and bulletin board. Assist with registers when necessary. Provide projects for clerical and sales volunteers. Send out volunteer correspondence on a regular basis. Coordinate volunteers for receiving. Manage lost and found items and computer submissions. Assist in managing seasonal staff.Troubleshoot register and/or computer issues with TRCG and Web2Market. Answer customer concerns in the store and through the mail. Ship merchandise sold to customers. Contact companies regarding incorrect shipments. Assist with catalog operations. Produce computer-generated reports. Design, produce, and mail bi-monthly store calendar of events. Print and distribute any informational flyers such as store calendar, bluebonnet planting instructions, Habiturf brochures, etc.Other duties as assigned.