Sales Associate

Sales Associate Job

Join our team as a sales associate for Brigade Services! You will be part of the team that provides tailor, cobbler, hair, and laundry services to the Brigade of Midshipmen by providing excellent customer service to our nation's future leaders! Scheduling 8-hour shifts, 3-4 weekdays per week, with Fridays required.

Customer Service and Retail Duties - Achieves daily profitable sales goal by providing exemplary customer service to include greeting, professional appearance, positive attitude, and approaching the customer, suggestive selling and adding on. Must project the best image of USNA, in addition, must comply with the Public Affairs Office. Receives special order requests from authorized patrons and assists customers if needed. Incumbent prices special order merchandise and notifies customers when special order merchandise is received. Assists customers in locating merchandise throughout the retail stores. Assists in outfitting each new class of midshipmen in the summer of each year and throughout the year as required by directives from higher authority. Incumbents will issue, pack boxes, work issue stations fitting clothing, check-out and processing midshipmen through sales store terminals as required. Completes retail reports and submits to management.

Point of Sales (POS) and Specialized Systems - Operates the point-of-sale terminal verifying that all merchandise is properly scanned, verifies retail price, verifies product information, processes proper type of sale/return in terminal, properly secures credit card information and delivers receipt to customer. Secures register funds daily, verifying all monies for the day and delivers cash to assigned terminal. At the end of workday, counts/verifies all cash, checks, bank charges, midshipmen charges and deposits same in drop safe per instructions, reconciles accounts.

Inventory - Stocks and maintains the sales floor according to daily sales plan. Stays current with merchandise assortment. Assists management with pricing when needed. When warehouse shipments are received, incumbent will check in merchandise, stock shelves, and assist in the maintaining the visual displays. Performs duties of repacking cartons, labeling cartons with proper counts, working with SKUs, and descriptions of merchandise for transfer to the warehouse and other retail operations. Incumbent also transports packages to / from the warehouse using the department van. Incumbent will also conduct spot inventories as assigned during the year. Supports management during inventory and performs other tasks related to the retail operation within NABSD.

General duties - Maintains housekeeping standards such as dusting, vacuuming, and taking out trash. Provides on the job training to new sales store clerks as needed. Incumbent may be asked to transfer to another retail location as needed. Supports the business hours during the week and may include weekend shifts and holidays. Supports the safety and health program. Promotes employee involvement to identify and eliminate safety/health hazards in order to ensure an accident-free environment. Supports EEO policies and communicating support of those policies to all coworkers. Maintains all USNA, DOD, DON, and NABSD required training.