Senior Bookseller - PT

Senior Bookseller

As a Senior Bookseller, you use your exemplary knowledge, passion, and expertise regarding books to ensure a vibrant and curated bookstore executed to our standards. You support new booksellers through mentorship and guidance, helping them to learn about books and our first-class service standards for our customers. You deliver an engaging experience for our customers through your ability to build rapport, your friendly demeanor and genuine willingness to help them find the perfect book, gift, or beverage. You support the cluster structure and work collaboratively for the betterment of all stores in the cluster.

What You Do :

• Engage with our customers by having great conversations, using your book knowledge to connect them with the right products for their needs.
• Ensure a vibrant bookstore through the execution of bookstore basics, showing a commitment to presentation, commerciality, section detail, localization, and sense of theater.
• Identify key titles to tailor and localize assortments for the customer.
• Leverage key campaigns such as Our Monthly Picks, pre-orders, etc., to hand sell and engage in conversation with every customer.
• Keep the store neat and tidy, ensuring the bookstore is always shoppable and inviting.
• Create compelling and vibrant displays, ensuring section detail is targeted to your customer.
• Mentor and teach new employees, helping them to acclimate to bookselling.
• Model expected behaviors to ensure compliance with all company policies and procedures.
• Protect company assets by adhering to all inventory and loss prevention standards, properly completing any inventories and initiatives.
• Work on the selling floor, which requires physical activity (i.e., prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, climbing) and Caf when needed.
• Open and close the building, ensuring the safety of our employees and customers when acting as a keyholder.

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Expected Behaviors :

EEO Statement : Barnes & Noble is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, religion, creed, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition as defined by applicable law, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, hairstyle, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, reproductive health decisions, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.

Notes : An employee in this position can expect a hourly rate starting at $15.00. Benefits : Part-time less than 20 hours per week : Sick pay, Employee Discount. Part-time 20 - 29.99 per week : Sick Pay, Employee Discount, Vacation, Personal Days and Company Holidays, 401(k). Full Time 30+ hours per week : Sick Pay, Employee Discount, Vacation, Personal Days and Company Holidays, 401(k), Health Benefits, Disability, Life Insurance, Transit, Tuition Reimbursement.