Bookseller - Temporary

Barnes & Noble • Birmingham, AL

18d • Onsite

About The Position

A Bookseller is an integral member of the Barnes & Noble bookselling team, welcoming customers, answering questions, and helping readers find suitable books and products. The role also supports store operations by maintaining attractive, clean displays, unpacking and shelving deliveries, and operating registers to provide quick, friendly, professional service.

Booksellers are expected to demonstrate reliable attendance, flexibility in responding to store scheduling needs, a positive and dependable approach to work, consideration for colleagues, cheerful customer service, willingness to learn, and enthusiasm for bookselling. The role involves mastering operational skills and technologies, merchandising books and other product categories, receiving and shelving deliveries, locating products, supporting the café when needed, and following loss-prevention and de-escalation procedures.

As experience grows, Booksellers build knowledge across books and other store departments, maintain sections and backstock, make recommendations, and support sales objectives such as Our Monthly Picks, Book of the Year, Membership, and preorders. Booksellers may support other stores in their Cluster when able and needed. With demonstrated mastery of the role, the expected next career step is Senior Bookseller. The position requires prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking. Temporary position.

Requirements

• Reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
• Flexibility and responsiveness to store needs, including filling scheduling gaps when able.
• Positive, energetic, hardworking, and dependable approach to assigned work.
• Considerate and supportive conduct toward colleagues.
• Cheerful, helpful customer service.
• Aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and knowledge.
• Comfort using varied technology, including registers, computers, tablets, programs, and other tools.
• Ability to perform prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking.

Responsibilities

• Welcome customers, answer questions, and help them find appropriate books and products.
• Maintain attractive store presentation, cleanliness, displays, and product sections.
• Unpack and receive deliveries and shelve products accurately and efficiently.
• Operate registers quickly, competently, and reliably.
• Use store technology, including registers, computers, tablets, programs, BookMaster, and other information tools.
• Merchandise books, gifts, toys, and other product categories, maintaining their presentation and backstock.
• Locate books and other products accurately using product knowledge, colleagues, BookMaster, and available information tools.
• Support the café team when needed.
• Follow loss-prevention procedures and de-escalation techniques; identify theft and seek support for problematic behavior and store issues.
• Develop knowledge of fiction, nonfiction, children's books, educational toys and games, specialty games, hobbies and collectibles, music and movies, and Newsstand products.
• Make book recommendations and help customers throughout the store.
• Support sales objectives, products, and new releases, including Our Monthly Picks, Book of the Year, Membership, and preorders.
• Maintain reliable and punctual attendance and respond flexibly to store scheduling needs when able.
• Support colleagues and, when able and needed, other stores in the wider Cluster.
• Comply with company policies and procedures.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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