What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sales Team Member - Bridgeport Village PT position at Tender Loving Empire?
Job Summary
This position is responsible for greeting and connecting with customers while actively seeking
opportunities to share insight into our products, makers, and the TLE brand. Sales Associates
prioritize customer engagement, store look and feel, and product knowledge and sales.
Essential Duties
1. Creates an exceptional and unique customer experience by circulating the sales floor
and connecting with customers on products and offerings.
2. Ensures merchandise is stocked, clean, and presentable at all times.
3. Accurately rings in sales using point of sale, processes refunds, and remedies or
escalates inventory discrepancies.
Job Duties
1. Helps customers determine their needs or interests and provides recommendations
based on their individual connections.
2. Develops strong relationships with customers and looks for opportunities to further
expand their purchases.
3. Takes full advantage of company training and literature to retain current knowledge of
product and vendor offerings.
4. Upholds company cleanliness and organization standards of merchandise floor, stock
room, and all storage areas.
5. Signs customers up for TLE & Me reward program and engages with them on program
incentives.
6. Stays up to date on current promotional offerings and ensures customers are aware of
these while shopping.
7. Opens and closes stores within scheduled time, ensuring all daily and weekly tasks are
completed.
8. Seeks opportunities to meet daily financial goals.
Supervisory Responsibilities
This position does not have any supervisory responsibilities.
Qualifications
Ability to perform essential job duties with or without reasonable accommodation and without
posing a direct threat to safety or health of the employee or others. To perform this job
successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The
requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform
the essential duties.
1. Ability to read, write, comprehend, and speak English.
2. Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
3. Ability to write simple correspondence.
4. Ability to effectively present information one-on-one and in small group situations to
customers, vendors, and other employees of the organization.
5. Ability to use and communicate effectively on Slack.
6. Ability to use common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in
written, oral, or diagram form.
7. Ability to work between multiple TLE locations.
8. Weekend availability, and availability 3-5 weekdays.
Education & Experience
● Minimum of one year in a specialty retail and/or customer service role.
Physical Demands & Work Environment
1. The employee may be exposed to weather based heat and humidity.
2. While performing the duties of this job the employee must frequently lift up to 15
pounds and must occasionally lift and or move up to 25 pounds.
3. The employee is also regularly required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers to work
with products, twist, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and reach with
hands and arm.
This position is responsible for greeting and connecting with customers while actively seeking
opportunities to share insight into our products, makers, and the TLE brand. Sales Associates
prioritize customer engagement, store look and feel, and product knowledge and sales.
Essential Duties
1. Creates an exceptional and unique customer experience by circulating the sales floor
and connecting with customers on products and offerings.
2. Ensures merchandise is stocked, clean, and presentable at all times.
3. Accurately rings in sales using point of sale, processes refunds, and remedies or
escalates inventory discrepancies.
Job Duties
1. Helps customers determine their needs or interests and provides recommendations
based on their individual connections.
2. Develops strong relationships with customers and looks for opportunities to further
expand their purchases.
3. Takes full advantage of company training and literature to retain current knowledge of
product and vendor offerings.
4. Upholds company cleanliness and organization standards of merchandise floor, stock
room, and all storage areas.
5. Signs customers up for TLE & Me reward program and engages with them on program
incentives.
6. Stays up to date on current promotional offerings and ensures customers are aware of
these while shopping.
7. Opens and closes stores within scheduled time, ensuring all daily and weekly tasks are
completed.
8. Seeks opportunities to meet daily financial goals.
Supervisory Responsibilities
This position does not have any supervisory responsibilities.
Qualifications
Ability to perform essential job duties with or without reasonable accommodation and without
posing a direct threat to safety or health of the employee or others. To perform this job
successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The
requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform
the essential duties.
1. Ability to read, write, comprehend, and speak English.
2. Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
3. Ability to write simple correspondence.
4. Ability to effectively present information one-on-one and in small group situations to
customers, vendors, and other employees of the organization.
5. Ability to use and communicate effectively on Slack.
6. Ability to use common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in
written, oral, or diagram form.
7. Ability to work between multiple TLE locations.
8. Weekend availability, and availability 3-5 weekdays.
Education & Experience
● Minimum of one year in a specialty retail and/or customer service role.
Physical Demands & Work Environment
1. The employee may be exposed to weather based heat and humidity.
2. While performing the duties of this job the employee must frequently lift up to 15
pounds and must occasionally lift and or move up to 25 pounds.
3. The employee is also regularly required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers to work
with products, twist, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and reach with
hands and arm.