Sales Associate - Closer, SeaTac Airport Store

Tender Loving Empire; SeaTac (WA); On-site; USD 33,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Tender Loving Empire is hiring a Sales Associate at SeaTac. You will greet customers, share knowledge about products and makers, and help build the TLE brand through superior service.

The role emphasizes engaging customers, maintaining store presentation, and utilizing training materials to stay current on products and promotions while meeting daily sales goals.

Qualifications

• Must be able to read, write, comprehend and speak English.
• Able to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Able to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to present information clearly one-on-one and in small groups to customers, vendors, and coworkers.
• Proficient with Slack.
• Able to carry out written or verbal instructions with good judgment.
• Willing to work across multiple Tender Loving Empire locations.
• Weekend and 3–5 weekday availability required.

Responsibilities

• Create an exceptional customer experience by circulating the sales floor and engaging with customers.
• Keep merchandise stocked, clean, and presentable at all times.
• Accurately process sales and refunds using the POS system and address inventory discrepancies.

Skills

English literacy

Read/Write

Basic writing

Clear presentation

Slack usage

Common sense

Multi-location work

Weekend availability

Job description

About Tender Loving Empire

With 7 brick-and-mortar stores across Portland and Seattle, plus an online shop, Tender Loving Empire curates a collection of goods and music from hundreds of independent makers. Our customers want to support their creative community, surround themselves with beauty, and live wholeheartedly.

TLE has been part of Portland's creative community since 2006, guided by a simple, three-part mission: empower and support creatives, enrich and fulfill employees, and delight and inspire patrons.

We truly believe that living wholeheartedly means being an optimist and a do-gooder, a dabbler and a dreamer. It means going after your dreams while helping others succeed in theirs. It means understanding that small businesses keep our communities from becoming boring, homogenous, impersonal, money-over-people places.

Applying to work at Tender Loving Empire is a choice to support hundreds of makers, musicians, and small businesses. Together, we can make our communities more vibrant, creative, compassionate, and connected.

Job Summary

This position is responsible for greeting and connecting with customers while actively seeking opportunities to share insight into our products, makers, and the TLE brand. Sales Associates prioritize customer engagement, store look and feel, and product knowledge and sales.

Location

SeaTac International Airport
17801 International Blvd, SeaTac, WA 98158

Essential Duties

1. Creates an exceptional and unique customer experience by circulating the sales floor
   and connecting with customers on products and offerings.
2. Ensures merchandise is stocked, clean, and presentable at all times.
3. Accurately rings in sales using point of sale, processes refunds, and remedies or
   escalates inventory discrepancies.

Job Duties

1. Helps customers determine their needs or interests and provides recommendations
   based on their individual connections.
2. Develops strong relationships with customers and looks for opportunities to further
   expand their purchases.
3. Takes full advantage of company training and literature to retain current knowledge of
   product and vendor offerings.
4. Upholds company cleanliness and organization standards of merchandise floor, stock
   room, and all storage areas.
5. Signs customers up for TLE & Me reward program and engages with them on program
   incentives.
6. Stays up to date on current promotional offerings and ensures customers are aware of
   these while shopping.
7. Opens and closes stores within scheduled time, ensuring all daily and weekly tasks are
   completed.
8. Seeks opportunities to meet daily financial goals.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This position does not have any supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications

Ability to perform essential job duties with or without reasonable accommodation and without posing a direct threat to safety or health of the employee or others. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

1. Ability to read, write, comprehend, and speak English.
2. Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
3. Ability to write simple correspondence.
4. Ability to effectively present information one-one and in small group situations to customers, vendors, and other employees of the organization.
5. Ability to use and communicate effectively on Slack.
6. Ability to use common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
7. Ability to work between multiple TLE locations.
8. Weekend availability, and availability 3-5 weekdays.

Education & Experience

Minimum of one year in a specialty retail and/or customer service role.

Physical Demands & Work Environment

1. The employee may be exposed to weather based heat and humidity.
2. While performing the duties of this job the employee must frequently lift up to 15 pounds and must occasionally lift and or move up to 25 pounds.
3. The employee is also regularly required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers to work with products, twist, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and reach with hands and arm.