Order Entry Associate Jobs in Washington (NOW HIRING)

Do you enjoy bringing order to busy workdays and helping your teammates stay on track? As a Corporate associate, you keep work organized and moving. You'll partner closely with others, solve everyday challenges and provide the support teams need to stay organized and get results.

Position Summary: 
This position plays a crucial role in the implementation and maintenance of advertised promotions across the Fresh & Non-Perishable Departments. This includes handling the versioning, image attachment, and accurate entry of description and price points into systems such as Demandtec, Adplex, 3 Com, and OMI/Biceps. The role ensures timely and precise execution of divisional ad and pricing specifications, while identifying any issues, errors, or discrepancies and providing recommendations to Category Teams for resolution. 

Additionally, the position is responsible for validating advertised retail prices, applying business rules to determine pricing based on available funding, and ensuring compliance with the promotion process and internal controls to protect margins. The Promotion Entry Admin also resolves coupon conflicts and promptly responds to store queries, making necessary corrections as required. 

What You Will Do: 

Grow Our People  

• We care deeply about people, enjoy diversity and develop talent to get the best out of all of us 

Obsess Over Customers  

• We delight our customers with innovative products and experiences that support a healthier future for people and planet 

Win Together  

• We collaborate across boundaries to deliver on our strategy and purpose 

Planning and Execution  

• Manage and execute the ad version differences, changes and requirements in the ad accurately on time. 

• Provide inputs and extracts to all Merchandising Systems (i.e. DemandTec, MIC, PLUM, OMI, BICEPS, etc.) to ensure accurate billing, pricing, and promotions.  

• Ability to multi-task, as needed, prioritizing workload.  

• Coordinate information flow between Category Teams, Sales Team, Supply Chain, Item Life Cycle, Advertising and Pricing.  

Teamwork 

• Work collaboratively with peers to produce the required work on a weekly basis to ensure the ad is completed accurately and on time.  Report issues with systems validate performance and participate in any User Acceptance Testing UAT) on upgrades as needed 

• Collaborate with Advertising to ensure timely and accurate communication of all ad related promotional information (including accurate ad versioning) for assigned categories. 

• Validate ad retails versus system retails to ensure data integrity for the ad and to prevent issues at store level. 

Operational Excellence 

• Process information (electronic or paper) required from suppliers, category teams and advertising to enable promotions to be executed in the requisite systems as required 

• Enter promotional retails into DemandTec Promo, and/or any other required systems (Legacy, etc.) 

• Validate that Category Teams do not implement promotional pricing tactics that are inconsistent with banner strategy. 

• Implement promotional retails required by Price Analysts pricing to respond to competitive situations when appropriate. 

• Ensure 100% accuracy in all promoted prices implemented. Research and resolve any billing issues as required.  

• Accountable for end-to-end promotional validation and quality control. 

• Responsible for connection with marketing/Customer Relationship Management (CRM) execution (define ownership). 

• Responsible for verifying content and accuracy of Promotions. 

• Responsible for 100% accuracy of the ad - the pictures match the promotions, and the deals match the system. 

What You Will Bring: 

• Proficient in MS Office Suite including Excel, Access and Teams, Igor, S&S Mainframe, AIS Mainframe, Deal Management, Aces, IDW/CDW, Prompt 

• Thorough understanding of Accounting Rules 

• Attention to detail, ability to multi-task and prioritize 

• Effective communication skills 

• Must be comfortable with and capable of learning multiple software applications. 

• Ability to interact with all levels of management in a fast paced, changing environment. 

• Ability to meet job and schedule requirements 

Hourly Range: $20.49 - $27.31

The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary.  Additional factors considered in extending an offer include, but are not limited to, responsibilities of the role, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data and applicable law.  We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time. 

This position will be on-site at the Giant Food Headquarters in Hyattsville, MD.

 WHY GIANT

Come join a culture of care with opportunities to better yourself professionally and personally. A place where you can truly GROW, CARE, BELONG.

GROW through benefits like tuition reimbursement, scholarship & grant programs, leadership development, career advancement, continuous learning opportunities and access to Market USA Credit Union.

CARE is provided through our comprehensive healthcare, life insurance, paid parental leave, wellness programs, a 401k plan with up to a 5% company match, paid time off, employee assistance programs, and wellbeing resources to support you on and off the job.

BELONG through Business Resource Groups (BRGs), rewards & recognition programs, community outreach and countless volunteer opportunities that connect us with the communities we serve.

Join our team and explore the full range of benefits available and become part of our 90+ year legacy. Because food makes us a grocery store, but our people make us GIANT.