Sales Lead

Barnes & Noble • Nashville, TN

2d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Sales Lead (SL), you are expected to embody excellent selling behaviors, demonstrating a passion for selling products and ensuring an exceptional customer experience by sharing your expertise with both your team and customers. This role involves leading the team and managing the store to achieve sales goals, operational efficiencies, and overall excellence. As a leader, you will mentor and support customer service associates (CSAs), helping them develop their skills for successful careers at Paper Source. You will work collaboratively within the store to guarantee the best experience, ensuring customer satisfaction and encouraging repeat business.

Requirements

• Understand and deliver excellent standards of service.
• Continue to grow knowledge of product/market and the current cultural trends.
• Solid operational knowledge to run the store.
• Proven experience training employees.
• Solid decision-making skills.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively and work collaboratively

Responsibilities

• Create memorable shopping experiences where customers look forward to coming back to shop again because of the consistent, friendly and informed service that you provide and model for the store team.
• Ensure a vibrant store through the flawless execution of Visual Merchandising & Replenishment standards, showing a commitment to maintaining a neat, tidy, shoppable and inviting presentation.
• Leverage key campaigns and services, such as new item launches, promotions, enterprise orders, etc. to actively sell and engage in conversation with every customer.
• Help to develop employees by sharing your knowledge and supporting their understanding of the different areas in the store.
• Ensure the efficient execution of store operations by directing work with timely management of receiving, returns and other day-to-day processes, understanding issues of shrink and expenses when running the store.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in operations, communicating and sharing with your team and pod to enhance the store experience for both customers and fellow employees.
• Communicate effectively and collaboratively with the store team.
• Give feedback honestly and respectfully to store team when appropriate.
• Drive results during assigned Manager on Duty (MOD) segments — delivering sales and behaviors that meet the store’s performance targets.
• Lead merchandising and replenishment efforts during assigned MOD periods.
• Open and close the building, ensuring the safety of our employees and customers.
• Ensure compliance to company standards as it pertains to safety, customer experience and all store operations, including asset protection (controlling shrink, expense, and payroll).
• Work on the selling floor, which requires physical activity (i.e., prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, climbing)

Benefits

• For those who are scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week include Employee Discount, EAP and Sick Pay.
• For those scheduled to work between 20 and 29.99 benefits include Employee Discount, EAP, Sick Pay and Paid Time Off including paid Maternity and Parental Leave, Company Paid Holidays, Transit and 401(k) with Company Match.
• For those scheduled to work 30 hours or more benefits include Employee Discount, EAP, Sick Pay and Paid Time Off including paid Maternity and Parental Leave, Company Paid Holidays, 401(k) with Company Match, Comprehensive Health Benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision), Healthcare and Dependent Care Spending Accounts, Healthcare Spending Account, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Transit, and Tuition Reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed