Bookseller Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
• Flexibility and responsiveness to store scheduling needs, including filling scheduling gaps when able.
• A positive, purposeful, energetic, hardworking, and reliable approach to assigned tasks.
• A supportive and considerate attitude toward colleagues.
• A consistently cheerful and helpful approach to customers.
• Aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and store knowledge.
• Comfort and efficiency using varied technology, including registers, computers, tablets, programs, and other tools.
• Ability to perform physical activity including prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking.

Responsibilities

• Welcome customers, answer questions, and help them find suitable books and other products.
• Maintain an attractive, clean, and well-presented store, including book, gifting, toy, and other product displays.
• Operate registers quickly, accurately, and professionally.
• Support receiving and unpacking deliveries and shelve products efficiently and accurately.
• Use product knowledge, colleagues, BookMaster, and available information tools to locate books and other products.
• Support the café team when needed.
• Follow loss-prevention procedures and de-escalation techniques; identify theft and seek support for problematic behavior or store issues.
• Build knowledge across fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, educational toys and games, specialty games, hobbies and collectibles, music and movies, and Newsstand.
• Maintain sections and backstock and present books and other products in an interesting and attractive manner.
• Make effective recommendations to customers and support sales objectives, including Monthly Picks, Book of the Year, Membership, preorders, key products, and new releases.
• Comply with company policies and procedures.
• Support other stores in the wider Cluster when able and needed.

Benefits

• Employee discount.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Sick pay.
• Paid time off, including paid maternity and parental leave, for eligible scheduled hours.
• Company-paid holidays for eligible scheduled hours.
• 401(k) with company match for eligible scheduled hours.
• Transit benefits for eligible scheduled hours.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision health benefits for those scheduled to work 30 hours or more.
• Healthcare and dependent care spending accounts for those scheduled to work 30 hours or more.
• Disability benefits and life insurance for those scheduled to work 30 hours or more.
• Tuition reimbursement for those scheduled to work 30 hours or more.