Bookseller - Temporary

Barnes & Noble•Doylestown, PA

25d•Onsite

About The Position

A Bookseller is an integral member of the Barnes & Noble bookselling team, welcoming customers, answering questions, and helping readers find appropriate titles and products. The role also supports the bookstore’s presentation and efficient operation by unpacking and shelving deliveries, tidying displays, and operating registers to provide quick, friendly, professional service. Booksellers are expected to maintain reliable attendance, be flexible when scheduling needs arise, approach work positively and reliably, support colleagues, assist customers cheerfully, and show willingness to learn. The role requires learning and applying operational skills, including using registers, computers, tablets, programs, and other tools; maintaining attractive and clean merchandise displays; receiving and shelving deliveries; locating products; supporting the café team when needed; and following loss-prevention procedures and de-escalation techniques. Booksellers may also work in other stores to support the wider Cluster when able and needed. As they gain experience, Booksellers build knowledge across books and other store categories, maintain sections and backstock, make customer recommendations, and support sales initiatives and new releases. The position offers a career path toward Senior Bookseller as skills and expertise develop. The work involves prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking. Employees must comply with company policies and procedures.

Requirements

Reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
Flexibility and responsiveness to store scheduling needs, including potential availability for early mornings, late evenings, weekends, and most holidays.
A positive, purposeful, energetic, and reliable approach to assigned work.
Consideration and helpfulness toward colleagues.
A cheerful, helpful approach to customers.
Aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and store knowledge.
Ability to use registers, computers, tablets, programs, and other tools comfortably and efficiently.
Ability to perform physical work involving prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking.

Responsibilities

Welcome customers, answer questions, and help connect readers with appropriate titles and products.
Maintain the presentation and cleanliness of the store, including merchandising books, gifts, toys, and other product categories.
Unpack and receive deliveries and shelve products accurately and efficiently.
Operate registers quickly, reliably, and professionally.
Use store technology and information tools to locate books and other products.
Support the café team when needed.
Understand and follow loss-prevention procedures, identify theft or problematic behavior, and seek support as appropriate.
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 present books and other products attractively.
Make effective book and product recommendations to customers.
Support sales objectives and initiatives, including Our Monthly Picks, Book of the Year, Membership, preorders, key products, and new releases.
Maintain reliable and punctual attendance, fill scheduling gaps when able, and support colleagues.
Work in other stores when able and needed to support the wider Cluster.
Comply with company policies and procedures.