Bookseller - Temporary

Barnes & Noble • Savannah, GA

7d • Onsite

About The Position

A Bookseller is an integral member of the Barnes & Noble bookselling team, welcoming customers, answering questions, and helping readers find appropriate 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 work cheerfully and reliably, support colleagues, learn new skills, and adapt to store scheduling needs.

Booksellers are trained to use store technology and tools, maintain book and other product displays, operate registers, process deliveries, find products using available information resources, and support the café when needed. They also learn loss-prevention procedures and de-escalation techniques. The work involves prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking; 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 initiatives and new releases. The role offers a path to Senior Bookseller as skills and expertise develop. Booksellers must comply with company policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
• Flexibility and responsiveness to store scheduling needs, including availability to fill gaps when able.
• A positive, willing, energetic, and reliable approach to assigned work.
• A supportive and considerate approach to colleagues.
• A cheerful, helpful approach to customers.
• Aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and acquire store knowledge.
• Ability to use varied technology and store tools comfortably and efficiently.
• Ability to perform physical work involving prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking.

Responsibilities

• Welcome customers, answer questions, and help them find suitable books and products.
• Maintain attractive store displays, merchandising, cleanliness, and product presentation.
• Unpack and receive deliveries and shelve products accurately and efficiently.
• Operate registers and provide quick, reliable, professional customer service.
• Use store technology, including registers, computers, tablets, programs, and information tools.
• Find books and other products using personal knowledge, colleagues, BookMaster, and available information tools.
• 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.
• Learn and maintain knowledge of educational toys and games, specialty games, hobbies and collectibles, music and movies, and the Newsstand.
• Support sales initiatives and objectives, including Our Monthly Picks, Book of the Year, Membership, preorders, key products, and new releases.
• Maintain reliable and punctual attendance, work scheduled shifts, and fill scheduling gaps when able.
• Support colleagues and, when able and needed, other stores in the wider Cluster.
• Comply with company policies and procedures.

Benefits

• Employee discount
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Sick pay
• Paid time off
• Paid maternity and parental leave
• Company-paid holidays
• Transit benefits
• 401(k) with company match
• Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Healthcare and dependent care spending accounts
• Healthcare spending account
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance
• Tuition reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed