Bookseller - Temporary

Barnes & Noble•Mobile, AL

7d•Onsite

About The Position

A Barnes & Noble Bookseller is an integral member of the bookselling team, welcoming customers, answering questions, connecting readers with suitable titles and products, maintaining attractive store presentation, helping the store run efficiently, unpacking and shelving deliveries, tidying displays, and operating registers to provide professional service. The role requires reliable attendance, flexibility to help meet store scheduling needs, a positive and supportive approach to work, cheerful customer service, and a willingness to learn and enjoy bookselling. Booksellers are trained in store operations, including using registers, computers, tablets, programs, and other tools; merchandising and maintaining cleanliness and presentation across books and other product categories; receiving and shelving deliveries; locating products using personal and colleagues’ knowledge and available information tools; supporting the café team when needed; and following loss prevention and de-escalation procedures. The position involves physical activity such as prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking. Booksellers may work in other stores when able and needed to support the wider Cluster. As they gain experience, Booksellers build knowledge across books and other store categories, maintain sections and backstock, make recommendations, and support sales objectives and new releases. The role offers a path to Senior Bookseller as skills and expertise develop. Booksellers must comply with company policies and procedures.

Requirements

Reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
Flexibility and responsiveness to store scheduling needs, including possible early morning, late evening, weekend, and holiday shifts.
Positive, purposeful, energetic, hard-working, and reliable approach to assigned tasks.
Supportive and considerate conduct toward colleagues.
Cheerful and 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 connect them with books and other products.
Maintain attractive store presentation, displays, cleanliness, and efficient store operations.
Unpack deliveries and shelve products accurately and efficiently.
Operate registers quickly, competently, and reliably.
Use store technology and information tools to locate books and other products.
Maintain book, gifting, toy, and other product sections and backstock.
Make book recommendations and support sales objectives, including Our Monthly Picks, Book of the Year, Membership, preorders, products, and new releases.
Support the café team when needed.
Follow loss prevention procedures, identify theft or problematic behavior, and seek support or use de-escalation techniques as appropriate.
Support colleagues and, when able and needed, other stores in the wider Cluster.
Comply with company policies and procedures.