Bookseller - Temporary

Barnes & Noble•Champaign, IL

About The Position

A Barnes & Noble Bookseller welcomes customers, answers questions, and helps connect readers with suitable books and products. The role also supports the bookstore team by maintaining attractive displays, keeping the store clean and organized, processing registers, and receiving, unpacking, and shelving deliveries. Booksellers are expected to provide cheerful, professional service and contribute reliably to the efficient operation of the store. The position requires learning store operations and using varied technology, including registers, computers, tablets, programs, and other tools. Booksellers develop merchandising knowledge across books and other product categories, help customers locate items, support the café team when needed, and follow loss-prevention procedures and de-escalation techniques. The work involves prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking. Employees may work at other stores when able and when needed to support the wider Cluster. As experience develops, Booksellers build knowledge of books and other merchandise, maintain sections and backstock, make recommendations, and support sales initiatives and new releases. The role is a step on a career path that may lead to Senior Bookseller. The position is temporary. The stated starting hourly rate is $15.00, depending on experience, seniority, geographic location, and other factors permitted by law.

Requirements

Maintain reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
Be flexible and responsive to store scheduling needs, including filling gaps when able.
Bring a positive, energetic, dependable, and purposeful approach to assigned work.
Be supportive and considerate of colleagues and helpful to customers.
Show willingness and aptitude to learn new skills and store knowledge.
Use varied technology, including registers, computers, tablets, programs, and other tools comfortably and efficiently.
Be able to perform work involving prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking.

Responsibilities

Welcome customers, answer questions, and help them find appropriate books and products.
Maintain the store’s presentation, cleanliness, displays, and merchandise sections.
Operate registers quickly, accurately, and professionally.
Receive and unpack deliveries and shelve products efficiently and accurately.
Use store technology and information tools to find books and other products.
Support the café team when needed.
Follow loss-prevention procedures, identify theft or problematic behavior, and seek support when appropriate.
Build knowledge of books across fiction, nonfiction, and children’s categories and use it to make recommendations.
Maintain book, gift, toy, game, hobby, collectibles, music, movie, and Newsstand sections and backstock.
Support sales objectives and initiatives, including Monthly Picks, Book of the Year, Membership, preorders, key products, and new releases.
Help colleagues and support other stores in the Cluster when able and needed.
Comply with company policies and procedures.