Bookseller - Temporary

Barnes & Noble•Round Rock, TX

9d•Onsite

About The Position

A Bookseller is an integral member of the Barnes & Noble bookselling team, welcoming customers, answering questions, and helping readers find suitable books and products. The role also supports the store’s presentation and efficient operation by unpacking and shelving deliveries, maintaining displays, and serving customers at the register. Booksellers are expected to be cheerful, helpful, reliable, punctual, supportive of colleagues, willing to learn, and flexible in responding to store needs. The store operates from early mornings to late evenings every day, including weekends and most holidays. Booksellers are trained in operational competencies such as using store technology, maintaining merchandise presentation and cleanliness, operating registers, receiving and shelving deliveries, locating products with available information tools, supporting the café when needed, and following loss-prevention and de-escalation procedures. The work involves prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking. Booksellers may also work at other stores when able and when the wider Cluster needs support. As they gain experience, Booksellers build knowledge across books and other store categories, maintain sections and backstock, make recommendations, and support sales initiatives and new releases. The role offers a career path toward Senior Bookseller as skills and expertise develop. Employees must comply with company policies and procedures. This position is temporary.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

Welcome customers, answer questions, and help connect readers with appropriate titles and products.
Maintain attractive store presentation and cleanliness, including book, gifting, toy, and other product displays.
Unpack and receive deliveries, then shelve products accurately and efficiently.
Operate registers quickly, reliably, and professionally.
Use store technology and information tools, including BookMaster, to find books and products.
Support the café team when needed.
Understand and follow loss-prevention procedures and de-escalation techniques; identify theft or problematic behavior and seek support.
Build knowledge of books across fiction, nonfiction, and children’s categories and use it to maintain sections and recommend books.
Build knowledge of educational toys and games, specialty games, hobby and collectibles, music and movies, and Newsstand, and maintain related sections and backstock.
Support sales objectives and initiatives, including Our Monthly Picks, Book of the Year, Membership, preorders, key products, and new releases.
Provide flexible support for scheduling gaps and, when able and needed, other stores in the Cluster.
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 applicable scheduled-hour groups)
Company-paid holidays (for applicable scheduled-hour groups)
Transit benefits (for applicable scheduled-hour groups)
401(k) with company match (for applicable scheduled-hour groups)
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)
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)