Sales Associate

Carter's Inc.; Fort Wayne (IN); On-site; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Carter's Inc. in Fort Wayne, Indiana is seeking a Sales Associate to join a warm and inclusive team. The role involves assisting customers with product selections, ensuring a positive shopping experience, and executing transactions. Ideal candidates should possess strong customer service skills, effective communication abilities, and the capacity to manage multiple tasks. This position requires physical capability to lift and stand for extended periods and availability for varied shifts including nights and weekends.

Qualifications

• A positive and solutions-oriented mindset.
• Demonstrated customer service and engagement skills.
• Effective and professional verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Welcome customers with a warm greeting.
• Confidently and proactively resolve customer issues.
• Assist customers with omnichannel needs.
• Execute point of sale transactions.
• Complete floor replenishment and shipment as needed.
• Articulate promotional events and brand loyalty programs.

Skills

Customer service

Verbal communication

Task management

Job description

Overview

Love what you do. Carter’s Careers. As a Sales Associate, you will be the first face of the brand for growing families. You’ll congratulate new parents and grandparents, introduce them to our new baby essentials, help them prep for their first day of school, and all the big and little moments of their parenting journey. You’ll join a welcoming and inclusive environment that values and optimizes skills and talents.

Carter’s Inc. is the largest North American apparel retailer exclusively for babies and young children, encompassing Carter’s, OshKosh B’gosh, Skip Hop, and Little Planet brands. Carter’s is the #1 most-purchased children’s clothing brand. We’ve become an industry leader by providing quality — from the first Original Bodysuit® to the lasting careers we offer our team. We’ve kept our close-knit culture since our founding, and we invest in our teams with training and development programs, so we all succeed together. A Carter’s career doesn’t feel like a job. It feels like connections, between customers, teams, and families. Caring, teamwork, flexibility, and growth are what make us different.

What You’ll Do

• Welcome customers with a warm greeting and provide assistance with our product styles, features, and benefits.
• Confidently and proactively resolve issues for customers and balance a number of customers in a busy retail environment.
• Meet customer needs by assisting with omnichannel as needed to ensure a positive shopping experience.
• Execute and expedite point of sale/register transactions.
• Complete floor replenishment and shipment as needed.
• Articulate current promotional events and the brand loyalty program, including credit, to customers.
• Minimize store loss by providing exceptional customer service and maintaining a safe, clean store.

Qualities we’d love in a candidate

• A positive and solutions-oriented mindset.
• Demonstrated customer service and engagement skills.
• Effective and professional verbal and written communication skills.
• The ability to manage multiple tasks at once.

You can

• Lift 40 pounds as needed, with frequent bending, stooping, reaching, pushing, and pulling.
• Stand or walk for extended periods of time; climb up and down a ladder.
• Provide availability that may include days, nights, weekends, and holidays as scheduled.

Carter’s for all: Carter's is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer (Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran).

Additional information

Applications will be accepted until at least 7 days after the posting date. Carter's does not use AI to make any decision in our hiring process. NOTE: This job description is not all-inclusive. The duties described may be changed or reassigned at the discretion of management, and the employee may be required to perform duties that are not listed in the job description. Carter’s may reasonably alter your duties, responsibilities, job title, and location. *Source: Circana/ Consumer Tracking service, U.S. dollar share, 12 months ending September 2023

Carter’s is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.