Seasonal Sales Associate-423 Plainville, CT 06062

Seasonal Sales Associate

If you want to be at the heart of Five Below's energy, our part-time Seasonal Sales Associates are right in the center of the action. We're looking for candidates with a passion for delivering outstanding customer service while driving strong sales. Key qualities include excellent people and sales skills, attention to detail in keeping merchandise organized, ensuring the floor is always well-stocked, and providing seamless checkout experiences at the register. The role is temporary and is for our busy holiday season October through January.

Responsibilities include greeting and assisting customers promptly, understanding and meeting customer needs, promoting store events and promotions, resolving customer concerns, communicating needs to management, and supporting team and company goals.

Qualifications include being at least 16 years old, available to work a flexible schedule, comfortable with or willing to learn technology, good communicator with the ability to engage with customers, able to handle customer interactions and potential issues/concerns courteously and professionally, use basic information-gathering skills to solve problems, and ability to learn procedural knowledge acquired through on-the-job training.

Essential job functions include frequently operating cash register, computer, hand-held, phone, walkie, and mobile devices, frequently moving merchandise weighing up to 25 lbs and placing/removing merchandise up to a height of 5-10 feet, frequently ascending/descending ladders in order to retrieve and put away stock, frequently positioning self to kneel, bend, twist, and stoop, including in the stock room and on the sales floor, frequently communicating and exchanging information with customers on the telephone and face-to-face in the store, as well as with managers and coworkers, ability to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business, which will require day, evening, weekends and may include overnight shifts and travel (as required), ability to identify and discern email and print instructions regarding merchandise layouts, associate schedules, and standard operating procedures, and must be able to remain in a stationary, upright position for 80% of the time.

Five Below is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Five Below is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please submit a request and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Position Type: Hourly

Position Starting At: $16.94

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