Bookseller - Temporary

Barnes & Noble•Panama City Beach, FL

21d

About The Position

A Bookseller is an integral member of the bookstore team, welcoming and assisting customers, connecting readers with titles and products, maintaining attractive store displays, and helping the store run efficiently. The role includes unpacking and shelving deliveries, tidying displays, 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 energetic approach to work, consideration and support for colleagues, cheerful customer service, and willingness to learn. The role requires developing operational skills with store technology, merchandising, register operation, receiving and shelving products, product discovery tools, café support when needed, and loss prevention and de-escalation procedures. The job involves prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking. Booksellers may work in other stores when needed and able, supporting the wider Cluster. As their knowledge develops, Booksellers maintain store sections and backstock, recommend books, support sales objectives, and build expertise across books and other product categories. With mastery of the role’s skills, a Bookseller is expected to advance to Senior Bookseller. Employees must comply with company policies and procedures. This is a temporary Bookseller position.

Requirements

Maintain reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
Be flexible and responsive to store needs, including filling scheduling gaps when able.
Bring a positive, energetic, purposeful, and reliable approach to assigned work.
Be supportive and considerate of colleagues and helpful to the team.
Provide cheerful, consistently helpful customer service.
Show aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and store knowledge.
Be willing to support the café team when needed.
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, including tidying displays and keeping the store clean.
Unpack and receive deliveries, and shelve products accurately and efficiently.
Operate registers quickly, competently, and reliably while providing professional customer service.
Use store technology, including registers, computers, tablets, programs, BookMaster, and other information tools.
Maintain book, gifting, toy, and other product presentations through merchandising and visual merchandising.
Support the café team when needed.
Follow loss prevention procedures and de-escalation techniques; identify theft or problematic behavior and seek support as needed.
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, make effective customer recommendations, and support sales objectives such as Our Monthly Picks, Book of the Year, Membership, preorders, products, and new releases.
Work collaboratively with colleagues and, when able and needed, support other stores in the wider Cluster.
Comply with company policies and procedures.