Bookseller - Temporary

Barnes & Noble•Meridian, ID

17d•Onsite

About The Position

A Bookseller is an integral member of the bookstore team, welcoming customers, answering questions, and connecting readers with books and other products. The role also supports store operations by maintaining attractive displays, unpacking and shelving deliveries, keeping the store tidy, and operating registers to provide quick, professional service. Booksellers are expected to demonstrate reliability, punctuality, flexibility, a positive and energetic approach to work, consideration for colleagues, cheerful customer service, and willingness to learn. The role requires learning operational skills across technology, merchandising, visual presentation, checkout, receiving, product discovery, café support, and loss prevention. Booksellers may support other stores in their wider Cluster when able and needed. As their experience develops, Booksellers build knowledge of books and other store categories, maintain sections and backstock, recommend books, and support sales initiatives and new releases. The role offers a career path to Senior Bookseller as skills and expertise grow. The position is temporary. Physical activity includes prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking.

Requirements

Maintain reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
Be flexible and responsive to store scheduling needs, including filling scheduling gaps when able.
Bring a positive, energetic, hardworking, and reliable approach to assigned tasks.
Be supportive and considerate of colleagues and helpful to the team.
Provide consistently cheerful and helpful customer service.
Show aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and store knowledge.
Be comfortable and efficient using varied technology and tools.
Develop merchandising, visual merchandising, register, receiving, shelving, and product-finding skills.
Understand and follow loss prevention procedures and de-escalation techniques.
Meet the physical demands of prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking.

Responsibilities

Welcome customers, answer questions, and help them find suitable books and other products.
Maintain attractive store presentation, cleanliness, displays, and merchandise sections.
Unpack and receive deliveries, then shelve products efficiently and accurately.
Operate registers quickly, competently, and reliably.
Use store technology and information tools, including registers, computers, tablets, programs, and BookMaster, to locate products and complete work.
Support the café team when needed.
Follow loss prevention procedures, identify theft or problematic behavior, and seek support or use de-escalation techniques as appropriate.
Build knowledge of fiction, nonfiction, children's books, educational toys and games, specialty games, hobbies and collectibles, music and movies, and Newsstand products.
Maintain sections and backstock and make effective book recommendations to customers.
Support sales objectives and initiatives, including Our Monthly Picks, Book of the Year, Membership, preorders, key products, and new releases.
Support other stores in the wider Cluster when able and needed.
Comply with company policies and procedures.