Bookseller - Temporary

Barnes & Noble•Manhasset, NY

15d

About The Position

A Bookseller is an integral member of the bookstore team, welcoming and assisting customers, connecting readers with books and other products, maintaining attractive store presentation, and supporting efficient store operations. The role includes unpacking and shelving deliveries, tidying displays, and operating registers to provide quick, friendly, professional service. Booksellers are expected to demonstrate reliable attendance, flexibility in responding to store scheduling needs, a positive and energetic approach to work, consideration for colleagues, helpfulness toward customers, and willingness to learn. The role requires mastering operational competencies using store technology, merchandising products, serving customers at registers, supporting receiving and shelving, locating products, assisting the café team when needed, and following loss prevention and de-escalation procedures. As experience develops, Booksellers build knowledge across fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, and other store categories. They use that knowledge to maintain sections and backstock, make recommendations, support sales objectives and product launches, and help customers shop. Booksellers are expected to comply with company policies and procedures. The role offers a path to Senior Bookseller as skills and expertise develop.

Requirements

Reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
Flexibility and responsiveness to store scheduling needs, including filling scheduling gaps when able.
A positive, energetic, hardworking, and reliable approach to assigned tasks.
Supportive and considerate behavior toward colleagues.
Cheerful, helpful customer service.
Aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and store knowledge.
Ability to use varied technology, including registers, computers, tablets, programs, and other tools, comfortably and efficiently.
Ability to perform prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking.

Responsibilities

Welcome customers cheerfully, answer questions, and help connect them with suitable books and products.
Maintain store presentation and cleanliness, including book displays and other product categories.
Unpack and receive deliveries and shelve products accurately and efficiently.
Operate registers competently and serve customers quickly and reliably.
Use store technology and information tools, including computers, tablets, programs, BookMaster, and other tools, to perform work and find products.
Support the café team when needed.
Understand and 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 and use it to maintain sections and make customer recommendations.
Support sales objectives such as Monthly Picks, Book of the Year, Membership, preorders, products, and new releases.
Develop knowledge of educational toys and games, specialty games, hobbies and collectibles, music and movies, and Newsstand; maintain those sections and backstock and assist customers.
Comply with company policies and procedures.
Work collaboratively with other stores in the Cluster when able and needed.

Benefits

Employee discount
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Sick pay
Paid time off, including paid maternity and parental leave (for employees scheduled 20 or more hours per week)
Company-paid holidays (for employees scheduled 20 or more hours per week)
Transit benefits (for employees scheduled 20 or more hours per week)
401(k) with company match (for employees scheduled 20 or more hours per week)
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits (for employees scheduled 30 or more hours per week)
Healthcare and dependent care spending accounts (for employees scheduled 30 or more hours per week)
Disability benefits (for employees scheduled 30 or more hours per week)
Life insurance (for employees scheduled 30 or more hours per week)
Tuition reimbursement (for employees scheduled 30 or more hours per week)