Inventory Associate

Looking to be part of an exciting and rapidly growing industry? The Original FARM is a provincially and municipally licensed cannabis retailer located on Vancouver Island. Since opening in April 2015, The Original FARM’s mission has been to provide safe access to cannabis, in a professional environment.

Provincial legislation requires employees to have their Selling it Right Certificate.

Duties & Responsibilities :

• The Inventory Associate reports directly to the Inventory Manager

• Ensure the proper execution of FARM’s standard operating procedures within Inventory team.

• Controlling and recording product and moving it to the appropriate location physically and electronically.

• Collaboratively working with FOH Team to ensure par levels (till drawer configuration) and professional merchandising is accomplished.

• Assisting in the receiving of product physically as deliveries arrive.

• Collaboratively with team manage loss prevention and inventory control strategy assuring quality control over all products inventoried

• Daily/weekly auditing of inventory in all locations based on inventory audit schedule.

• Quality assurance (data integrity) over inventory data within Inventory Management System (POS/ IMS).

• Generating reports from Inventory Management System:

• Transfer Advice Report: Used to see what has been sold from which till and what time. This is used to stock and refill till drawers throughout the day.

• Inventory Reports: General forensics report, location transfer log/reports, monthly returns and adjustments report.

• Identify and resolve issues in a collaborative, effective, and timely manner.

• Policy and Compliance enforcement amongst production team maintaining positive relationships with City, Province, and Police.

• Managing to maintain a WorkSafe environment throughout the back of house areas.

• Ensuring that the back of house is maintained to be bright, organized, and clean.

• Limiting waste and driving a culture of environmentalism within FARM, managing garbage and recycling, ensuring it is dealt with appropriately each day.

• Other duties as required.

Qualifications and Skills :

• Strong understanding of the cannabis regulatory environment
• Strong working knowledge of POS systems, Word, and Excel
• Strong communication skills, time management, and problem-solving skills
• Works well in high volume, high level of care, retail environment
• Strong cannabis knowledge and passion an asset
• Experience with proactive loss prevention methodologies.

Terms of Employment :

• Full-time hourly position offering up to 40 hours per week
• Must be willing to sign FARM’s terms of employment contract
• Must be able to work a variety of night/ weekends/ holidays and split shifts when required
• Reports to: Inventory Manager