Bookseller - Temporary

Barnes & Noble•Prosper, TX

14d•Onsite

About The Position

A Barnes & Noble Bookseller is an integral member of the bookselling team, welcoming customers, answering questions, and helping readers find suitable titles and products. The role also supports store presentation and operations by unpacking and shelving deliveries, maintaining displays, and operating registers to provide quick, professional service. Booksellers are expected to demonstrate reliable attendance, flexibility in responding to store scheduling needs, a positive and hardworking approach, consideration for colleagues, cheerful customer service, willingness to learn, and enthusiasm for bookselling. The role requires mastering operational competencies, including using store technology, merchandising, register operation, receiving and shelving products, locating items using available resources, supporting the café when needed, and following loss-prevention and de-escalation procedures. As experience grows, Booksellers build knowledge across books and other store categories, maintain sections and backstock, make recommendations, and support sales objectives and new releases. The position involves physical activity, including prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking. Booksellers may work in other stores when able and when needed to support the wider Cluster. The role complies with company policies and procedures and offers a career path toward Senior Bookseller as skills and expertise develop.

Requirements

Reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
Flexibility and responsiveness to store scheduling needs, including willingness to fill scheduling gaps when able.
A positive, purposeful, energetic, and reliable approach to assigned work.
A supportive and considerate attitude toward colleagues.
Cheerful, helpful customer service.
Aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and knowledge.
Ability to perform prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking.
Willingness to learn and master the operational competencies of a Barnes & Noble bookseller.

Responsibilities

Welcome customers, answer questions, and help them find appropriate books and products.
Maintain attractive store presentation, displays, cleanliness, and product sections.
Unpack and receive deliveries, then shelve products efficiently and accurately.
Operate registers quickly, competently, and reliably.
Use store technology and information tools, including registers, computers, tablets, programs, and BookMaster.
Support the café team when needed.
Follow loss-prevention procedures and de-escalation techniques; identify theft and seek support for problematic behavior or store issues.
Build knowledge of books across fiction, nonfiction, and children's categories, as well as educational toys and games, specialty games, hobbies and collectibles, music and movies, and Newsstand products.
Use product knowledge to maintain sections and backstock, make recommendations, and help customers shop.
Support sales objectives and products, including Monthly Picks, Book of the Year, Membership, preorders, and new releases.
Comply with company policies and procedures.
Support other stores in the wider Cluster when able and needed.