What are the responsibilities and job description for the Part-Time Marketing Shipping Clerk position at Purple Wave Auction?
Description
Step into a role where every package helps power our brand. As a Part-Time Shipping Clerk on Purple Wave’s marketing team, you’ll work side-by-side with colleagues to prepare, package, and process outgoing shipments—making sure our event materials, promo items, and mailers arrive exactly where they need to be, right on time. Working closely with our Tradeshow and Marketing Coordinator, you’ll combine hands-on work with light computer tasks to update addresses, track returns, and keep our records sharp, all in a fast-paced, team-focused environment.
The Part-Time Marketing Shipping Clerk plays a crucial role in facilitating the smooth operations of Purple Wave's marketing department. This position will work closely with the Tradeshow and Marketing Coordinator and will report to the Director of Marketing. This position is responsible for preparing, packaging, and processing outgoing shipments in a timely and accurate manner. This role ensures orders are fulfilled according to company standards, shipping documentation is completed properly, and products are handled with care. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, reliable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. Additionally, this position requires basic computer work to review returned mailers, correct address information, and update records to ensure accurate future deliveries.
Responsibilities
Visit us at: PurpleWave.com
Purple Wave Auction is a leader in the equipment auction industry focusing on construction, ag, fleet, and government equipment. We are a data-driven, quickly changing and evolving, growing organization. Our focus is on marketing the assets we sell for our customers to find the highest quality bidders for the best recoveries for our sellers. We strive to make this transaction Straight, Simple, and Sold. We live daily by our core values of trust, team, care, and passion to be the place people want to work and our customers want to return to for their equipment buying and selling needs for their businesses.
Purple Wave Auction is the largest no-reserve Internet auction company in the Midwest.
Purple Wave Auction Core Values
Equal Opportunity is a Purple Wave, Inc. policy. It is our practice to select the best-qualified candidate for each position in the organization. No employee of the Company will discriminate against an applicant for employment or a fellow employee because of race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, or other physical or mental disability, military or veteran status.
Notice of Background Check
As a condition of your employment, you will be required to sign the Company’s Authorization for Background Check, and to provide the Company with documents establishing your identity and right to work in the United States.
Additional Information
Step into a role where every package helps power our brand. As a Part-Time Shipping Clerk on Purple Wave’s marketing team, you’ll work side-by-side with colleagues to prepare, package, and process outgoing shipments—making sure our event materials, promo items, and mailers arrive exactly where they need to be, right on time. Working closely with our Tradeshow and Marketing Coordinator, you’ll combine hands-on work with light computer tasks to update addresses, track returns, and keep our records sharp, all in a fast-paced, team-focused environment.
The Part-Time Marketing Shipping Clerk plays a crucial role in facilitating the smooth operations of Purple Wave's marketing department. This position will work closely with the Tradeshow and Marketing Coordinator and will report to the Director of Marketing. This position is responsible for preparing, packaging, and processing outgoing shipments in a timely and accurate manner. This role ensures orders are fulfilled according to company standards, shipping documentation is completed properly, and products are handled with care. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, reliable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. Additionally, this position requires basic computer work to review returned mailers, correct address information, and update records to ensure accurate future deliveries.
Responsibilities
- Accurately pick and pack marketing materials to be shipped.
- Create and verify shipping labels, packing slips, and other documentation.
- Coordinate shipping with carriers such as UPS, FedEx, and USPS.
- Inspect outgoing shipments to ensure accuracy, quality, and proper packaging.
- Assist with receiving, storing, and organizing materials as needed.
- Communicate regarding order status and shipping issues.
- Review and correct return-address information on outgoing mailers to ensure accuracy and consistency.
- Assign leads to sales team via SmartSheet.
- Verify and validate address details against internal records, flagging discrepancies for follow-up as needed.
- Undertake additional assigned duties as requested.
- None.
- High school diploma or GED required (or current student).
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
- Proven ability to work independently and prioritize tasks effectively on demand.
- Applicants must be either a U.S. Citizen or eligible to work in the U.S.
- Requires the ability to satisfactorily complete a background check.
- Regular Part-Time, Hourly, Non-Exempt, eligible for overtime.
- Regular schedule of 12-15 hours per week, to be determined in agreement with the manager during Purple Wave’s office hours of 8am-5pm, Monday through Friday.
- Based in the Purple Wave headquarters in Manhattan, KS.
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds at times.
- Hourly rate is $12.00-$14.00 per hour.
- Monthly Bonus Program at 50% level - determined by the Company’s monthly revenue result and are paid on a “percent to plan” payout formula. (90% = $150, 100% = $300, 110% = $450, 120% = $600).
- 401(k) plan with an employer match up to 4% starting the first day of employment.
- Company-paid Life Insurance benefit of $25,000 with options to add more through employee contribution starting the first of the month after 60 days of employment.
- Fully paid Short-Term Disability provided by the Company.
- Personal Time Off (PTO) annual amount of 40 hours which is prorated based on the number of days between the 60th day of employment and the end of the calendar year. May vary based on state requirements.
Visit us at: PurpleWave.com
Purple Wave Auction is a leader in the equipment auction industry focusing on construction, ag, fleet, and government equipment. We are a data-driven, quickly changing and evolving, growing organization. Our focus is on marketing the assets we sell for our customers to find the highest quality bidders for the best recoveries for our sellers. We strive to make this transaction Straight, Simple, and Sold. We live daily by our core values of trust, team, care, and passion to be the place people want to work and our customers want to return to for their equipment buying and selling needs for their businesses.
Purple Wave Auction is the largest no-reserve Internet auction company in the Midwest.
- We have over 300 employees, nearly doubling in size in the last three years.
- We have a robust tech team and continue to invest in progressive techniques to enhance our services.
- While working at Purple Wave, you will have the opportunity to help our mission of being the easiest, most straightforward place to buy and sell used equipment.
- Purple Wave empowers its employees to solve problems effectively in a family-run business culture.
- We provide opportunities for continued education as you grow your career with tuition reimbursement. We have a generous benefits package in one of the fastest-growing companies in the area.
Purple Wave Auction Core Values
- TRUST: We are trustworthy…Our business depends upon our integrity and our customer’s ability to trust Purple Wave and its people: to enforce a fair, transparent unreserved auction marketplace; to safeguard their bidding information; to give a full effort on behalf of their asset(s); We are transparent, accountable and fair.
- TEAM: WE ARE A TEAM…We respect, support, appreciate and inspire each other; We communicate and follow-through; We need each other. We do our best work when we work together.
- CARE: WE CARE…We care for our customers. We look out for their best interests. We work hard for them. We “go the extra mile”.
- PASSION: WE ARE PASSIONATE…We are positive, we are enthusiastic, we take pride in our work, we own our responsibilities and we deliver; When we see problems, we fix them. We learn from our mistakes. We improve ourselves and Purple Wave every day; We believe Purple Wave can be the best marketplace for used equipment and we are committed to make it happen.
Equal Opportunity is a Purple Wave, Inc. policy. It is our practice to select the best-qualified candidate for each position in the organization. No employee of the Company will discriminate against an applicant for employment or a fellow employee because of race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, or other physical or mental disability, military or veteran status.
Notice of Background Check
As a condition of your employment, you will be required to sign the Company’s Authorization for Background Check, and to provide the Company with documents establishing your identity and right to work in the United States.
Additional Information
- Seniority LevelEntry Level
- Promotion Tag
Salary : $12 - $14