Retail Sales Associate (Home & Woman - Full Time)
About the role: Our full time sales associate role is not your typical retail job — you'll be an important member of our small team, responsible for everything that happens in the shop daily from open to close: from inventory processing, to spreadsheets and expenses, to shipping online orders, to visual merchandising and of course working on the sales floor.
Location: LEIF Home & Woman — 319 Graham Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11211.
Schedule: 40 hrs/week. Full day (11am-7pm) and full weekend availability is required.
Compensation: $21/hr—$22.50/hr starting wage based on recent/relevant experience
Benefits: annual pay increases, employer-subsidized health/vision/dental benefits, 2 weeks PTO, plus an employee discount on all merchandise
Company culture: we're a tiny but mighty, straightforward and close-knit team who values loyalty, fairness, clear communication, a strong work ethic and sense of urgency, attention to detail & shares a love of beautiful things
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Responsibilities include:
+ Being an all-star salesperson by offering suggestions/guidance and making sales while conveying an energetic authenticity and friendly familiarity with customers. There is a strong emphasis on sales and customer interactions at this location specifically.
+ Conduct sales transactions on POS, ringing up and packing items with accuracy, care and attention
+ Promptly and thoroughly restocking merchandise after every sale and refreshing/maintaining the sales floor throughout the day
+ Receiving and processing inventory: unpacking & steaming, filing and following up on damage/missing claims, entering inventory in our system and creating product pages and descriptions for e-comm
+ Monitoring and pulling for online orders, prepping them for fulfillment and seeing them through shipment
+ Maintaining and contributing to visual merchandising throughout the store, mannequin changes, etc.
+ Keeping back stock neat and organized, restocking and replenishing supplies throughout the day
+ Maintaining the storefront (organizing, cleaning, dusting, vacuuming, etc).
Requirements:
+ Prior retail experience, preferably in a boutique setting.
+ Comfortable working by yourself
+ Ability and confidence to make sales through engaged interaction and by offering guidance & personalized recommendations
+ Exceptional communication skills and attention to detail
+ Extremely reliable and high accountability
+ A warm, vibrant and friendly personality & an authentic, natural ease with people
+ Self starter who takes initiative
+ Ability to multitask and perform well under pressure
+ Organized, efficient and aesthetically/visually inclined (gift wrapping, merchandising).
To apply:
+ Send an email to stacy@leifshop.pro with the subject "LEIF - Full Time Sales, Home & Woman" and attach your resume and a cover letter (ChatGPT is strongly discouraged—show us your personality instead!)
+ If available, links to your Pinterest and/or Instagram account are a plus for us and help to give us an idea of your aesthetic and style.
+ Additionally, including a 1-2 minute video introducing yourself (including but not limited to your interests and why you want to work with us) can be extremely helpful to set your application apart (especially for those without retail experience or social media acccounts).
We look forward to meeting you!