Bookseller - Temporary

Barnes & Noble•Tallahassee, FL

17d•Onsite

About The Position

A Barnes & Noble Bookseller welcomes customers, answers questions, and helps readers find suitable books and products. The role also supports the bookstore team by maintaining attractive displays, keeping the store tidy, 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, cheerfulness and helpfulness with customers, and willingness to learn. The role involves mastering store operations and technologies, merchandising and visual presentation, register operation, receiving and shelving inventory, product discovery tools, café support when needed, and loss-prevention procedures. The work is physically active and includes prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking. Booksellers may also work in other stores when able and when needed to support the wider Cluster. With experience, booksellers build knowledge across books and other store categories, maintain sections and backstock, make recommendations, and support sales objectives. As skills develop, the expected next career step is Senior Bookseller. Employees must comply with company policies and procedures.

Requirements

Reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
Flexibility and responsiveness to store scheduling needs, including willingness to fill scheduling gaps when able.
Positive, purposeful, energetic, hardworking, and reliable approach to assigned tasks.
Supportive and considerate behavior toward colleagues.
Cheerful, helpful customer service.
Aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and acquire store 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, displays, and cleanliness.
Unpack and receive deliveries and shelve products accurately and efficiently.
Operate registers quickly, reliably, and professionally.
Use registers, computers, tablets, programs, BookMaster, and other available information tools.
Maintain book, gifting, toy, and other product-category merchandising and visual presentation.
Support the café team when needed.
Understand loss-prevention procedures and de-escalation techniques; identify theft and seek support for problematic behavior or store issues.
Build knowledge of fiction, nonfiction, children's books, educational toys and games, specialty games, hobbies and collectibles, music and movies, and Newsstand products.
Maintain store sections and backstock and help customers with shopping and product discovery.
Make book recommendations and share product knowledge with customers and colleagues.
Support sales objectives, including Our Monthly Picks, Book of the Year, Membership, preorders, key products, and new releases.
Support other stores in the wider Cluster when able and needed.
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)
Transit benefits (for eligible scheduled hours)
401(k) with company match (for eligible scheduled hours)
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits (for employees scheduled 30 hours or more)
Healthcare and dependent care spending accounts (for employees scheduled 30 hours or more)
Healthcare spending account (for employees scheduled 30 hours or more)
Disability benefits (for employees scheduled 30 hours or more)
Life insurance (for employees scheduled 30 hours or more)
Tuition reimbursement (for employees scheduled 30 hours or more)