Bookseller - Temporary

Barnes & Noble•Livingston, NJ

7d•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 books and other products. Booksellers also help maintain store presentation and operations by unpacking and shelving deliveries, tidying displays, and operating registers to provide professional customer service. The role requires a positive, reliable, flexible, considerate, and customer-focused approach, along with an interest in learning and enjoying bookselling. Booksellers are trained to use store technology, perform merchandising and visual merchandising, operate registers, receive and shelve deliveries, locate products using available information tools, support the café team when needed, and follow loss-prevention and de-escalation procedures. The work involves prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and considerable walking. Employees may also work in other stores when needed and able. As their knowledge and skills develop, Booksellers build familiarity with books and other store categories, maintain sections and backstock, make recommendations, and support sales objectives and new releases. The role offers a career path toward Senior Bookseller. Employees must comply with company policies and procedures.

Requirements

Reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
Flexibility and responsiveness to store scheduling needs, including early mornings, late evenings, weekends, and most holidays.
Positive, energetic, and reliable approach to assigned work.
Supportive and considerate conduct toward colleagues.
Cheerful, helpful customer service.
Aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and knowledge.
Ability to use registers, computers, tablets, programs, and other tools comfortably and efficiently.
Ability to perform prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and considerable walking.

Responsibilities

Welcome customers, answer questions, and help connect them with books and other products.
Maintain attractive store presentation, displays, cleanliness, and product sections.
Unpack and receive deliveries, then shelve products efficiently and accurately.
Operate registers quickly, reliably, and professionally.
Use store technology and information tools, including BookMaster, to locate books and products.
Support café operations when needed.
Follow loss-prevention procedures, identify theft or problematic behavior, and seek support when appropriate.
Build knowledge of books across fiction, nonfiction, and children’s categories, as well as toys, games, hobbies, collectibles, music, movies, and newsstand products.
Make book and product recommendations and share knowledge with customers and colleagues.
Support sales objectives, including Monthly Picks, Book of the Year, Membership, preorders, products, and new releases.
Maintain sections and backstock effectively.
Comply with company policies and procedures.
Support other stores in the Cluster when able and needed.