Wal Mart Work Values

Daily Duties at Wal Mart:

• Drive sales by ensuring effective merchandise presentation, including accurate and competitive pricing, proper signing, in-stock and inventory levels, budgeting, forecasting, sales and assessing trends and community needs. • Model, enforce and provide guidance to hourly Associates on proper Customer service approaches and techniques to ensure customer needs, complaints, and issues are successfully resolved within Company guidelines and procedures. • Ensure compliance with company policies and procedures by holding hourly associates accountable; analyzing and interpreting reports; maintain quality assurance standards; providing direction and guidance on executing Company programs and strategic initiatives. • Provide supervision and development opportunities for hourly Associates by hiring, training, mentoring, assigning duties, evaluating performance, providing recognition, and ensuring diversity awareness. • Manage execution and results. Hold associates accountable for completing work within expectations and time requirements. Plan and Manage own and others time, based on business priorities, and follow-up to ensure work is completed in a timely and accurate manner. • Identify and obtain the resources needed to complete projects. Encourage associates to strive for excellence, efficiency and quality in work practices. • Planned, directed and successfully executed Black Friday Events • Participated in the remodeling of a Wal-Mart Supercenter from start to finish in the capacity of sales floor manager.

What they like about Wal Mart:

You highly value a work environment built on a formal structure, rules, and regulations. You do not enjoy the unpredictability of shifting priorities and deadlines that upset your routine. You require and enjoy direction, input and accountability as part of your work environment. You have a strong need to participate in making key decisions and feel left out if your superiors or co-workers do not seek your input when making decisions. You thrive on providing good customer service to both internal or external customers, and doing so makes you feel good.

Tags

Budgeting, Expense Control, Internal Controls, Payroll, Reporting, Process Improvement, Profit, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Benefits/Compensation, Team Leadership/Motivation, Emloyee/Labor Relations, Recruiting, Training/Development, Workforce Planning, Talent Management, Performanace Management, Employee Engagement, Presentations, Sales Forecasting, Event Planning, Customer Service, Distribution, Inventory Management, Logistics, Vendor Relations, Cost Reduction Scheduling, Ops Management, OSHA/Regulatory Compliance, Apparel, Hardlines, Softlines, Entertainment, Consumables, Health and Beauty, sales, cycle counts, Retail

Skills

excellent communication and interpersonal skills, effective influencing and negotiation skills, strong customer focus, ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines, analyzing and problem-solving skills, flexibility, attention to detail, ability to hire, train, mentor and develop associates to the next level, ability to maximize sales while controlling expenses, ability to work with all levels of management, effective prioritizing and time management skills, productivity driven and task oriented, team player, strong work ethic, Bilingual English/Spanish

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Wal Mart: