Bookseller - Temporary

Barnes & Noble•Commack, NY

7d•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 presentation and day-to-day operations, including unpacking and shelving deliveries, maintaining displays, and serving customers at the register. Booksellers are expected to demonstrate reliable attendance, flexibility where possible to meet store scheduling needs, a positive and dependable approach to work, consideration for colleagues, cheerful customer service, and a willingness to learn. The position requires proficiency in store operations and technology, merchandising, register use, receiving and shelving deliveries, product discovery tools, café support when needed, and loss-prevention and de-escalation procedures. As experience grows, Booksellers build knowledge across books and other store product categories, use that knowledge to maintain sections and backstock, make recommendations, and support sales objectives and new releases. The role involves physical activity, including prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking. Employees may work in other stores when able and needed to support the wider Cluster. Booksellers are expected to comply with company policies and procedures and may advance to Senior Bookseller as they develop mastery of the role’s skills.

Requirements

Reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
Flexibility and responsiveness to store scheduling needs when able; stores are open early mornings to late evenings, every day, including weekends and most holidays.
Positive, energetic, hardworking, and reliable approach to assigned tasks.
Considerate and supportive conduct toward colleagues.
Cheerful, helpful customer service.
Aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and store knowledge.
Comfort using registers, computers, tablets, programs, and other tools.
Ability to perform physical activities including prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking.
Willingness to support the café team when needed.
Ability to understand and follow loss-prevention procedures and de-escalation techniques.

Responsibilities

Welcome customers, answer questions, and help them find books and other products.
Maintain attractive store presentation, cleanliness, displays, sections, and backstock.
Unpack and receive deliveries and shelve items efficiently and accurately.
Operate registers quickly, professionally, and reliably.
Use store technology and information tools, including BookMaster, to locate products.
Support the café team when needed.
Follow loss-prevention procedures, identify theft or problematic behavior, and seek support when appropriate.
Build knowledge of fiction, nonfiction, children's books, educational toys and games, specialty games, hobbies and collectibles, music and movies, and the Newsstand.
Make effective book and product recommendations to customers.
Support sales objectives, including Monthly Picks, Book of the Year, Membership, preorders, key products, and new releases.
Maintain reliable and punctual attendance and fill scheduling gaps when able.
Support colleagues and contribute to the wider Cluster, including working in other stores when able and needed.
Comply with company policies and procedures.