Cosmetics Associate – Walmart, Halifax, NS
Location: Halifax, NS | Company: Walmart Store
Walmart Canada is hiring a Cosmetics Associate in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to assist customers, maintain product displays, stock merchandise, and support loss-prevention efforts within the cosmetics department.
This permanent hourly position is suited to organized and customer-focused candidates who enjoy helping shoppers, learning about products, and maintaining strong retail presentation standards.
About the Cosmetics Associate Position
As a Cosmetics Associate at Walmart Canada, you will help customers locate merchandise, compare products, make purchase decisions, and resolve concerns or direct them to management when appropriate.
You will also support the movement of merchandise from the backroom to the sales floor, maintain displays, complete stocking tasks, and help protect company assets through careful product awareness and loss-prevention procedures.
Key Areas of Responsibility
The Cosmetics Associate supports customer service, merchandising, inventory execution, department presentation, and asset-protection activities.
Customer Assistance
Greet customers, help them locate merchandise, support product selection, and respond professionally to questions or concerns.
Product Promotion
Promote relevant products and services while helping customers understand available cosmetics options.
Merchandising
Stock and rotate merchandise, maintain displays, remove damaged or expired products, and ensure accurate pricing and signage.
Inventory Execution
Receive merchandise, complete picks and downstocking, apply product protection, and set modulars and shelf caps.
Claims and Returns
Handle claims and returned merchandise according to Walmart policies and secure products when required.
Loss-Prevention Support
Identify high-shrink merchandise, maintain product awareness, and follow company asset-protection procedures.
Schedule and Physical Requirements
Candidates should be available to work mornings, afternoons, evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays according to store needs.
The position may involve standing for extended periods, bending, completing repetitive stocking and zoning tasks, and lifting merchandise, equipment, or supplies weighing up to 20 pounds and occasionally up to 50 pounds.
Skills That May Help Candidates Succeed
Walmart highlights several qualities that may help candidates provide effective service and maintain a well-organized cosmetics department.
Listen carefully, communicate politely, and help customers make informed product decisions.
Build familiarity with cosmetics merchandise and provide useful guidance within the department.
Monitor pricing, signage, product condition, expiration dates, displays, and high-shrink merchandise carefully.
Keep merchandise stocked, secured, accurately displayed, and easy for customers to find.
Support the Front End, Customer Service Manager, and other store associates when operational needs require assistance.
Pay and Employment Details
The minimum hourly rate for this Cosmetics Associate position starts at $16.90 CAD.
This is a regular, permanent hourly position located at 6990 Mumford Road in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Walmart provides disability-related accommodations to applicants and associates as required by law.
How to Apply
Review the complete job details on the official Walmart Canada careers website and prepare an updated resume highlighting any relevant cosmetics, retail, customer-service, merchandising, stocking, or sales experience.
Current Walmart associates should apply through their Workday account using the Find Jobs report. External candidates can submit an application through the official job listing below.