Wine Sales Associate - Retail Wine Sales (82461)

Specs Family Partners • Sugar Land, TX

10d • Onsite

About The Position

The individuals who perform this job provide extraordinary shopping experiences to our guests and stock merchandise. This role requires maintaining uniform standards, demonstrating superior product knowledge, and engaging with guests in a friendly and helpful manner. Key responsibilities include recommending merchandise, answering product-related questions, building client relationships, and assisting with sales transactions. The position also involves preparing promotional events, setting up displays, maintaining the sales floor and stock areas, and ensuring product freshness and proper pricing. Employees are expected to use and maintain company equipment, continuously improve their skills, and adhere to safety regulations. Teamwork, attention to detail, time management, and the ability to handle stress in a fast-paced environment are essential. Physical requirements include standing, lifting, carrying, walking, bending, and reaching with products weighing up to 50 pounds regularly and occasionally up to 100 pounds or more, as well as pushing and pulling significant weight. Communication and visual acuity are also necessary. This is not a remote sales job.

Requirements

• State law says you must be over the age of 21 to work at Spec's.
• Ability to read, comprehend, and write simple instructions or memos.
• Ability to communicate with and understand coworkers and guests.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in both whole numbers and in fractions and decimals.
• Ability to calculate discounts and percentages.
• Responsibility, reliability, and commitment to providing extraordinary service.
• Patience, friendliness, and an outgoing personality.
• Self-starter with a strong work ethic who completes job assignments in a timely fashion and then looks for the next task.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Must maintain a valid TABC Beverage Sellers Permit.
• In some cases, a valid Food Handlers Permit is required.
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds regularly and up to 100 pounds or more occasionally using proper lifting techniques and tools.
• Push and/or pull 50 to 100 pounds or more regularly.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Physical attendance based on a schedule made by management which may vary week to week based on the needs of the business.

Nice To Haves

• Retail sales experience
• Strong product knowledge
• Bilingual skills

Responsibilities

• Know and actively demonstrate, daily, our Company Mission Statement and Core Values.
• Maintain uniform standard, as detailed in the Employee Manual, for all worked hours.
• Know and actively demonstrate superior product knowledge.
• Greet guests and engage in conversation with a smile and a helpful demeanor, remembering that the guest always comes first.
• Recommend merchandise based on the guests needs or desires, with a focus to suggest our in-house brands.
• Answer guests questions concerning price and use of merchandise.
• Create client relationships with regular guests.
• If needed, carry product to register counters and carry out products for guests.
• May be asked to run a cash register as business dictates.
• May be asked to receive as business dictates.
• Prepare promotional events as necessary.
• Set up displays or arrange merchandise in floor stacks, on counters or tables, to promote sales.
• Front merchandise and rotate stock for freshness and stock shelves with product.
• Maintain neat and orderly sales floor and back stock.
• Clean shelves, bottles, aisles, and tables; look for product not stocked properly to avoid trips and falls.
• Maintain fresh and readable price tags on all products.
• Provide feedback to management regarding fast or slow-moving product, stock levels, out of stocks, and department needs.
• Prepare sales floor and storage areas for inventory and assist in the inventory process if needed.
• Properly use and maintain computers and RF scanner equipment.
• Seek to continually improve related skills and knowledge to contribute to profitability and productivity.
• Avoid conversations with coworkers when guests are present.
• Limit use of personal cell phone to work related activities only while on the sales floor.
• Carry out directives of management efficiently.
• Fulfill responsibilities with care and attention to detail.
• Practice teamwork and cooperation with others.
• Possess time management skills and be able to prioritize tasks.
• Ability to manage stress in a fast-paced environment.
• Work in accordance with all safety regulations of Specs Family Partners and OSHA.
• Constantly stand, lift, carry, walk, and bend, and reach products routinely weighing 50 pounds or more. Use arms, hands, and fingers to feel, handle, reach, and lift. Lift and/or move up to 50 pounds regularly and up to 100 pounds or more occasionally using proper lifting techniques and tools. Push and/or pull 50-100 pounds or more regularly. Communicate with and understand team members and guests. See product and signage.
• Other projects and tasks assigned by management.
• Attendance and timeliness are required.

Benefits

• Company pays for TABC course time (up to 3 hours)
• Company provides link to TABC course and login information after hiring process is complete
• Company will deduct cost of TABC course from paycheck ($8)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED