Bookseller - Temporary

Barnes & Noble • Plantation, FL

11d • Onsite

About The Position

A Bookseller is an integral member of the Barnes & Noble bookselling team, welcoming customers, answering questions, and helping readers find books and other products. The role also supports store operations and presentation by unpacking and shelving deliveries, maintaining clean and attractive displays, and serving customers efficiently and professionally at the register.

Booksellers are expected to demonstrate reliable attendance, flexibility in responding to store scheduling needs, a positive and dependable approach to work, consideration for colleagues, and cheerful customer service. They should be willing to learn new skills and enjoy bookselling. The role involves mastering operational competencies, including using store technology, merchandising books and other products, processing transactions, receiving and shelving deliveries, locating products, supporting the café when needed, and following loss-prevention and de-escalation procedures.

As their experience grows, Booksellers build knowledge across books and other store categories, maintain sections and backstock, make recommendations, and support sales initiatives and new releases. They may also support other stores in the wider Cluster when able and needed. The position can lead to advancement to Senior Bookseller as skills develop. Physical work includes prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking. Booksellers must comply with company policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
• Flexibility and responsiveness to store scheduling needs, including availability that may accommodate early mornings, late evenings, weekends, and most holidays.
• Positive, purposeful, energetic, hard-working, and reliable approach to assigned tasks.
• Considerate and supportive conduct toward colleagues.
• Cheerful and helpful customer-service approach.
• Aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and knowledge.
• Comfort and efficiency using varied technology, including registers, computers, tablets, programs, and other tools.
• Ability to perform physical activity 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 connect them with appropriate books and products.
• Maintain attractive store presentation, displays, and cleanliness.
• Unpack and shelve deliveries and maintain sections and backstock accurately.
• Operate registers efficiently and provide quick, reliable, professional customer service.
• Use registers, computers, tablets, programs, BookMaster, and other information tools to locate products and perform store tasks.
• Develop and apply book knowledge across fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books to maintain sections and make recommendations.
• Maintain visual merchandising for gifting, toys, games, hobbies, collectibles, music, movies, and Newsstand products.
• Support sales objectives and initiatives, including Our Monthly Picks, Book of the Year, Membership, preorders, key products, and new releases.
• Support the café team when needed.
• Follow loss-prevention procedures, identify theft or problematic behavior, use de-escalation techniques, and seek support when appropriate.
• Maintain reliable and punctual attendance, respond flexibly to store scheduling needs, and support colleagues.
• 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 benefit (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)
• Tuition reimbursement (for eligible scheduled hours)

What This Job Offers

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