Human Resources & Store/Facilities Operations Assistant

Denver, Colorado

Right Start, a leading store and Web-based retailer of infant and toddler gear, is seeking an HR & Facilities/Operations Assistant to support the corporate HR and operations functions. This position supplies administrative support to human resources, store operations and facilities departments to include data entry, benefits administration, customer relations, HR administration, HRIS input, documentation of policies and procedures, and execution of the reception duties for the front desk and office.

Primary Responsibilities

• Generates new hire process, updates company directory, assigns mailroom slots, creates HR and benefit files for all new hires and communicates with IT regarding new user activation for multiple systems
• Enters data into the ADP payroll and benefit systems to include new hire personal information, benefit information, associate change notices and approved terminations
• Creates monthly HR and benefit reports, and submits reports to appropriate carriers and departments
• Audits monthly supply and CAM invoices for accuracy of payment
• Maintains associate HR and benefit files while securing associates’ personal data
• Maintains and updates associate bulletin boards in conjunction with the VP of store operations and HR, physically at the corporate office and annually ensures stores have necessary postings
• Assists in ensuring that new stores have all necessary new hire paperwork, postings and that all items on new store checklists have complete HR and store operations administrative responsibility
• Creates and maintains HR policies and procedures in conjunction with the VP of store operations and HR
• Maintains monthly birthday and anniversary lists and coordinates monthly all hands meetings
• Fields and answers management and associate questions regarding HR, store operations or facilities policies and procedures, benefits, programs or other related issues
• Conducts phone interviews, reference checks and background checks as requested by the VP of store operations and HR
• Posts all open positions both internally and externally, and maintains flow of resumes and communications to applicants
• Audits monthly benefit invoices to ensure accuracy in coverage and payment
• Performs receptionist duties to include answering phone, mail sorting, mailings, UPS shipments and greeting of visitors
• Assists office associates as needed with special projects as approved by VP store operations and HR
• Orders office supplies, printer ink cartridges, maintains mailroom and overall office organization
• Communicates with building management regarding office needs
• Maintains kitchen area by ensuring cleanliness and organization
• Maintains list of break room items needed for kitchen
• Acts as an active member of the activities committee and assists in organizing corporate events
• Runs HR, benefit and operations reports as needed on a monthly, weekly and daily basis
• Other duties and projects assigned as needed

Requirements

• 1-3 years experience in a human resources environment preferred
• Prior HRIS system and benefit experience desired; ADP experience a plus
• 1-3 years experience in a facilities and operations role preferred
• Strong communication, organizational skills and attention to detail very necessary and required
• Professional appearance, outgoing nature as consistent with company culture required
• Ability to compose professional business written communications required
• Proven MS Office skills required to include intermediate MS Word, Excel and Outlook
• Strong sense of urgency required
• Ability to multi-task while maintaining quality work a must
• Filing
• Prior experience in a corporate retail setting a plus

Education

• Bachelor’s degree gained through four-year college/university academic program or specialized training of equivalent length
• Preferred discipline in management and/or with a human resources emphasis

For consideration please e-mail cover letter, resume, salary history and requirements to Gigi.healy@rightstart.com.

Principals only need apply, no agency resumes accepted.

 

Web Developer

Denver, Colorado

LMC Right Start, Inc., a leading Web- and store-based retailer of juvenile products for infants through toddlers, is looking for a dynamic Web Developer for our Magento eCommerce platform. The successful candidate is highly motivated, a team player and possesses excellent communication skills. In addition, the successful candidate will be excited by the variety of work required and demonstrates successful multitasking skills with multiple priorities in our growing and dynamic business.

Primary Responsibilities

• Ongoing website development to add new functionality and improve existing operations
• Troubleshooting and resolution of production issues across all aspects of our e-commerce platform, including support of internal users
• Software Quality Assurance
• Configuration and management of website architecture, including web server, application and database layers
• Creation of and adherence to coding and design standards, and revision control practices

Requirements

• Strong systems analysis, design and troubleshooting skills, including the ability to reverse engineer undocumented code in a complex OOP environment
• Knowledge of object-oriented design patterns
• Software Quality Assurance expertise, using both manual and automated methods
• Relational database design and development experience (MySQL preferred)
• Experience with Apache web server administration
• Administration experience with Linux and/or MySQL is desirable
• Willingness and ability to participate in weekly evening code releases, and to provide 24x7 on-call support for website-related issues
• Desire and ability to rapidly become a productive contributor on both an individual and team basis
• Ability to work effectively with others across the entire organization to gather project requirements and solve business challenges
• Ability to be immediately task-oriented, but strategic in understanding the implications of development efforts on other systems and applications utilized within the business
• Knowledge of encryption and security concepts

Preferred Experience

• Experience with e-commerce or other website development in a LAMP architecture and systems integrations with both internal and external applications and partners
• Object-oriented programming experience using PHP, including PHP 5 and Zend Framework, or equivalent programming experience
• JavaScript, including AJAX
• SQL, including complex join syntax
• Linux or Unix environment, including shell scripting experience
• Experience with regular expressions
• Experience with HTML and CSS
• Experience with Magento or a similar e-commerce platform is a strong plus
• Experience with an entity-attribute-value database model is a plus
• Experience with Retail Pro is a plus

Company offers a generous benefit program to all full time eligible associates, as well as an associate discount. For consideration please email salary requirements and resume to employment@rightstart.com.

 

Email Specialist

Denver, Colorado

Right Start, a leading Web- and store-based retailer of infant and toddler products, is searching for an experienced candidate to advance our e-mail marketing program with their industry-leading insight in relation-based marketing.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assist the Director of Marketing in developing email marketing campaign strategies with specific timing, themes and offers that communicate relevant messages.
• Facilitate subscriber acquisition, retention and revenue maximization. Maximize deliverability, open rates, click-throughs and conversions.
• Identify, test and implement new email campaigns triggered by specific customer events in order to build more relevant and timely messages.
• Analyze and report on the results of all email campaigns, web marketing promotions and test initiatives, and provide regular updates on efforts to improve our email program.
• Set up email-related promotions, product groups, tracking and testing tasks.
• Launch, target and track email performance.
• Reconcile monthly billing and expense forecasts.
• Complete final test and QA on all emails for compatibility with Web browsers and email clients; ensuring all links, images, subject lines and list segments are correct.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in e-commerce with primary focus on email marketing campaigns that build direct to consumer sales.
• Demonstrated success producing innovative and effective results from emails for a brand name consumer marketer.
• Strong communication and excellent analytical skills.
• Creative problem solver with attention to detail.
• Team player with a strong work ethic.
• BA/BS Degree Required (Marketing/e-commerce a plus).

For consideration please e-mail salary history, requirements and resume to gigi.healy@rightstart.com. Position is open until filled.

 

AP & Accounting Clerk - Full Time

Denver, Colorado

Retail and Web-based specialty baby products company is seeking a full time AP & Accounting Clerk to support the accounting and finance department. This individual needs to be detail-oriented, organized, results-driven and receptive to change as needs arise within our growing organization. The ideal candidate will be a professional seeking to gain experience in the accounting and finance field, and to grow with the company!

Primary Responsibilities:

Accounts Payable

Invoice administration, including printing, reviewing, stamping, coding, organizing

Processing of trade and non-trade invoices

Assist/support weekly check run process, including metering and mailing

Filing of weekly check runs, vendor paperwork and other supporting documentation

Vendor administration, including review and setup

Vendor communication, including statement and invoice reconciliation

General Ledger

Recording daily sales for store in general ledger

Recording daily sales for fulfilled by Amazon in Retail Pro

Processing of negative on-hand adjustments in Retail Pro

Month end journal entries for prepaid accounts, credit card reconciliation, vendor allowance & drop ship

CAM (Common Area Maintenance) reconciliations

Review and filing of journal entries

Requirements

2 years experience in accounts payable, general ledger and office management

Proven system of organizing work load and providing updates to supervisor

Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Outlook and Word

Attention to detail, high level of accuracy and multi-tasking skills essential

Associate degree preferred

For consideration please e-mail salary history, requirements and resume to employment@rightstart.com. Position is open until filled.

 

Assistant Store Manager

Pasadena, CA

Right Start, a leading specialty store for infant and toddler gear, is looking for a dynamic and experienced Assistant Manager to join our Pasadena team! This position will assist our talented Store Manager to achieve store goals and profitability by selling specific, related or general lines of merchandise by performing the following duties personally and by leading and assisting associates.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Represent Right Start in a professional manner; act as a positive role model

Achieve or exceed UPT, average transaction and gross margin goals; ensure awareness of sales plan, weekly performance on monthly and annual levels

Maintain positive working relationships with internal and external customers and vendor reps

Define and exceed customer needs in a positive manner

Encourage a high level of coaching, customer interaction, suggestive selling and enthusiasm with all staff members

Learn and maintain excellent product knowledge and provide training, as needed

Assist manager with work schedules and help assign associates to specific duties

Assist manager with sales promotion activities and prepare and/or direct workers to prepare merchandise displays and advertising copy

Assist manager with supervising associates engaged in sales work, taking of inventories, reconciling cash with sales receipts, keeping operating records, preparing daily record of transactions and perform duties as needed

Follow store service center or store manager directives on visual merchandise directions; make appropriate and creative adjustments as needed. Also, comply with visual audit and awareness.

Assist with maintaining proper sales replenishments and physical store maintenance with store manager

Ensure proper assembly of store fixtures and merchandise for visual display

Assist manager in meeting store audit expectations; achieve established net profit and payroll goals

Assist manager in achieving and maintaining current store goals; effectively facilitate baby registry and Right Start online referral sales programs; understand and promote marketing programs and in-store events

Assist Manager in grass-roots marketing and clientelling

Other duties may be assigned as needed based on business trends

Education & Experience

2+ years previous assistant retail management experience required

Bachelor’s degree preferred

High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or 1-3 years of retail-related experience and/or training required. Or equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted

College coursework or degree is strongly preferred

Flexibility with schedule is essential

Must pass full credit and criminal pre-employment background check (required)

Prior experience interacting with parents and children is preferred

Right Start offers a competitive benefit program for full time associates, as well as a generous associate discount.

For consideration please e-mail salary history, requirements and resume to employment@rightstart.com. Position is open until filled.

 

Assistant Store Manager

San Franciso, CA

Right Start, a leading specialty store for infant and toddler gear, is looking for a dynamic and experienced Assistant Manager to join our Presidio Heights team! This position will assist our talented Store Manager to achieve store goals and profitability by selling specific, related or general lines of merchandise by performing the following duties personally and by leading and assisting associates.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Represent Right Start in a professional manner; act as a positive role model

Achieve or exceed UPT, average transaction and gross margin goals; ensure awareness of sales plan, weekly performance on monthly and annual levels

Maintain positive working relationships with internal and external customers and vendor reps

Define and exceed customer needs in a positive manner

Encourage a high level of coaching, customer interaction, suggestive selling and enthusiasm with all staff members

Learn and maintain excellent product knowledge and provide training, as needed

Assist manager with work schedules and help assign associates to specific duties

Assist manager with sales promotion activities and prepare and/or direct workers to prepare merchandise displays and advertising copy

Assist manager with supervising associates engaged in sales work, taking of inventories, reconciling cash with sales receipts, keeping operating records, preparing daily record of transactions and perform duties as needed

Follow store service center or store manager directives on visual merchandise directions; make appropriate and creative adjustments as needed. Also, comply with visual audit and awareness.

Assist with maintaining proper sales replenishments and physical store maintenance with store manager

Ensure proper assembly of store fixtures and merchandise for visual display

Assist manager in meeting store audit expectations; achieve established net profit and payroll goals

Assist manager in achieving and maintaining current store goals; effectively facilitate baby registry and Right Start online referral sales programs; understand and promote marketing programs and in-store events

Assist Manager in grass-roots marketing and clientelling

Other duties may be assigned as needed based on business trends

Education & Experience

2+ years previous assistant retail management experience required

Bachelor’s degree preferred

High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or 1-3 years of retail-related experience and/or training required. Or equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted

College coursework or degree is strongly preferred

Flexibility with schedule is essential

Must pass full credit and criminal pre-employment background check (required)

Prior experience interacting with parents and children is preferred

Right Start offers a competitive benefit program for full time associates, as well as a generous associate discount.

For consideration please e-mail salary history, requirements and resume to employment@rightstart.com. Position is open until filled.