Bookseller - Temporary

Barnes & Noble • Oviedo, FL

7d

About The Position

A Bookseller is an integral member of the Barnes & Noble bookselling team, welcoming customers, answering questions, and helping readers find appropriate titles and products. Booksellers also help maintain the store’s presentation and efficient operation by unpacking and shelving deliveries, tidying displays, and operating registers to provide quick, professional service.

The role requires demonstrating reliable attendance, flexibility in response to store scheduling needs, a positive and dependable approach to work, consideration for colleagues, cheerful customer service, willingness to learn, and enjoyment of bookselling. Booksellers are trained in store operations and are expected to develop proficiency in technology, merchandising, visual presentation, register operation, receiving and shelving deliveries, product discovery tools, café support when needed, loss prevention, and de-escalation.

The work involves prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking. Booksellers may also work in other stores when able and needed to support the wider Cluster. As they gain experience, they build knowledge across books and other store categories, maintain sections and backstock, make recommendations, and support sales objectives. Booksellers are expected to comply with company policies and procedures and, as they demonstrate mastery, advance toward the Senior Bookseller career step.

Requirements

• Reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
• A positive, purposeful, energetic, and dependable approach to assigned work.
• A supportive and considerate attitude toward colleagues.
• Cheerful, helpful customer service.
• Aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and acquire new knowledge.
• Ability to use varied technology comfortably and efficiently.
• Ability to perform prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking.
• Willingness to support the café team when needed.
• Willingness to work in other stores when able and needed to support the wider Cluster.

Responsibilities

• Welcome customers, answer questions, and help connect readers with appropriate titles and products.
• Maintain attractive store presentation and help ensure efficient store operations.
• Unpack and shelve deliveries, tidy displays, and maintain sections and backstock.
• Operate registers quickly, competently, and reliably.
• Use store technology, including registers, computers, tablets, programs, and other tools.
• Develop merchandising and visual merchandising skills for books, gifts, toys, and other product categories.
• Find books and other products using personal knowledge, colleagues, BookMaster, and available information tools.
• Support the café team when needed.
• Understand loss prevention and de-escalation procedures, identify theft or problematic behavior, and seek support when appropriate.
• Build knowledge across fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, educational toys and games, specialty games, hobbies and collectibles, music and movies, and Newsstand.
• Make effective book recommendations and help customers throughout varied store sections.
• Support sales objectives and products, including Our Monthly Picks, Book of the Year, Membership, preorders, and new releases.
• Maintain reliable and punctual attendance and be flexible in responding to store scheduling needs.
• Support colleagues and comply with company policies and procedures.

Benefits

• Employee discount
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Sick pay
• Paid time off
• Paid maternity and parental leave
• Company-paid holidays
• Transit benefits
• 401(k) with company match
• Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision
• Healthcare and dependent care spending accounts
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance
• Tuition reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed