Bookseller - Temporary

Barnes & Noble•Bayshore, NY

6d•Onsite

About The Position

A Bookseller is an integral member of the bookstore 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 operating registers to provide friendly, professional service. Booksellers are expected to demonstrate reliable attendance, flexibility when scheduling gaps arise, a positive and dependable approach to work, kindness toward colleagues, cheerful customer service, and a willingness to learn. The position requires learning operational competencies such as using store technology, merchandising, operating registers, receiving and shelving deliveries, locating products, assisting the café team when needed, and following loss-prevention and de-escalation procedures. Booksellers may support other stores in 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 recommendations, and support sales objectives and new releases. The role offers a development path to Senior Bookseller as the employee demonstrates mastery of the required skills. Employees must comply with company policies and procedures. The position involves prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking.

Requirements

Maintain reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
Be flexible and responsive to store scheduling needs, including filling gaps when able.
Approach work positively, purposefully, energetically, and reliably.
Be supportive and considerate of colleagues and consistently helpful to customers.
Show aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and knowledge.
Use varied technology, including registers, computers, tablets, programs, and other tools, comfortably and efficiently.
Develop and use merchandising, visual merchandising, and register skills.
Perform physical activities including prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking.

Responsibilities

Welcome customers, answer questions, and help them find books and other products.
Maintain attractive store presentation, displays, and cleanliness through merchandising and visual merchandising.
Operate registers quickly, competently, and reliably to serve customers.
Support receiving and unpacking deliveries and shelve products efficiently and accurately.
Use store technology and available information tools to locate books and products.
Support the café team when needed.
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, hobbies and collectibles, music and movies, and Newsstand; maintain relevant sections and backstock and help customers shop.
Support key sales objectives, products, and new releases, including Our Monthly Picks, Book of the Year, Membership, and preorders.
Provide support at other stores in the Cluster when able and needed.
Comply with company policies and procedures.