Job Title: Temporary Store Sales Associate
Essential Function
Responsible for providing superior customer service and support for a retail store environment.
Primary Duties:
* Assist Customers by directing them to products, explaining product features and benefits, and using sales techniques such as suggestive selling to secure maximum sales
* Price merchandise, stock shelves-unloading products from pallets when necessary, and perform housekeeping duties to maintain good store appearance.
* Pull merchandise from shelves or stockroom to fill customer orders.
* Assist with store merchandising in accordance with store standard guidelines.
* Resolve all customer service issues quickly and tactfully.
* Complete daily reports
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
* High school diploma or equivalent
* Previous sales experience preferred.
Competencies/Attributes:
* Ability to correspond with customers in person and over the telephone.
* Must be able to lift up to 25 lbs, occasionally while on a ladder.
* May be exposed to fumes and odors upon occasion.
* Read and understand product labels.
* Must be able to work Saturdays/Sundays and holidays, additional overtime may be required.
* Perform other duties and assigned by Manager.
Working Conditions /Physical Requirements:
* The position requires some physical exertion such as long periods of standing; walking; recurring bending, crouching, stooping, stretching, reaching, or similar activities; recurring lifting of moderately heavy items such as shipment or record boxes. The work may require specific, but common, physical characteristics and abilities such as above-average agility and dexterity.
* The work involves moderate risks or discomforts, which require special safety precautions, e.g., working around moving parts, carts, or machines; with irritant chemicals; etc. Employees may be required to use protective clothing or gear such as masks, gowns, coats, boots, goggles, gloves, or shields.