About the position
Break Time Sales Associates assist customers, process sales transactions and perform operational duties necessary to keep the Break Time convenience store clean and well stocked while following all company policies and procedures to ensure proper and efficient operation during the scheduled shift. Sales Associates are energetic individuals who believe it only takes a moment to make your day better.
Responsibilities
- Consistently and courteously greet and thank each customer; provide fast and friendly customer service; conduct accurate and efficient transactions; handle customer concerns quickly and courteously.
- Perform all merchandising activities including proper pricing, knowledge and implementation of promotions and sales, suggestively selling to customers, proper vendor check-in, and keeping all merchandise stocked, clean, fronted, and faced (including the cooler); maintain store cleanliness.
- Maintain timely and professional communication with customers, vendors, other employees, and management as it relates to all aspects of the store operations.
- Work as a team to efficiently and effectively serve customers while adhering to all local, state and federal regulations concerning all facets of job responsibilities and duties, and store operations.
- Utilize the store’s technology including point of sale systems, desktop and laptop computers and hand-held devices; perform mathematical calculations to make change, complete shift reports, and count product.
- Help train new employees on company policies and procedures; perform loss control functions related to cash handling, lottery sales and redemptions, food waste, employee purchases, merchandise sales, etc.; remain alert and properly report concerns.
Requirements
- 18 years of age or older.
- Friendly, customer service-oriented person who enjoys a fast-paced work environment.
- Flexible availability to work, including weekends and holidays.
- Reliable transportation to work.
- Ability to perform mathematical calculations to make change, complete shift reports, and account for numbers of products during vendor check in.
- Ability to learn new concepts, use technical materials, and consistently operate a computer and other office productivity machinery.
- Ability and willingness to attend adequate food safety training and obtain a Food Handler’s Card or equivalent certifications.
- Physical ability to move and position products in the cooler with temperatures as low as 30 degrees for up to one hour, and to move and position products in the freezer with temperatures as low as 0 degrees.
- Physical ability to both move and position yourself to move and retrieve products and supplies from shelves, under counters, or stacks of inventory weighing up to 50 pounds.
- Ability to remain in a standing position for up to nine hours per shift.
- Ability to visually observe and inspect items and work environment for regular job responsibilities and safety concerns.
- Ability and willingness to occasionally ascend and descend ladders to handle inventory or products.
- Ability to perform assigned tasks with accuracy and minimal supervision.
- Ability to speak, read, write, and understand the English language to communicate accurately and effectively with customers, coworkers, and supervisors.
- Ability to meet Company requirements, including successful pre-employment background check and drug test.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States.
Nice-to-haves
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Customer service or retail sales experience.
Benefits
- Competitive wages.
- Paid time off.
- Opportunity for performance incentives.
- Employee assistance program.
- Access to healthcare benefits once eligibility criteria are met.
