Sales Associate - Part-time

Wings Program Inc; Arlington Heights (IL); On-site; USD 16,531 - 20,664; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

IL Paid Leave

EAP

Job summary

Wings Program Inc. in Arlington Heights, IL is seeking a part-time Sales Associate to participate in day-to-day operations of WINGS Resale stores.

Under supervision of Lead Sales Associate and Store Manager, you will handle selling, stocking, pricing, and customer service. Responsibilities include operating POS, processing transactions, merchandising, receiving donations, light housekeeping, and collaborating with staff and volunteers to meet resale objectives.

Qualifications

• Able to operate POS and handle cash accurately.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Enjoy connecting with customers with a positive attitude.
• Comfortable with general computer use and POS systems.
• Able to work a flexible schedule including weekdays and weekends.

Responsibilities

• Selling, stocking, and pricing store merchandise.
• Complete customer transactions using POS system.
• Straighten racks, shelves, and sales floor areas.
• Promote inventory and provide high-level customer service.
• Accept and sort donations in the donations center.
• Light housekeeping as needed.
• Collaborate with staff, volunteers, and community service to meet store objectives.
• Provide excellent customer service internally and externally.
• Create attractive displays and rotate merchandise to optimize floor space.
• Ensure donor and customer interactions are excellent.
• Complete administrative duties on time.
• Attend mandatory meetings and trainings.

Skills

Customer service mindset

Cash handling

Interpersonal communication

Flexible schedule

Team collaboration

Tools

Point of Sale (POS) system

Job description

Description

Participate in day-do-day operations of WINGS Resale stores under the supervision of the Lead Sales Associate and Store Manager.

Key Responsibilities

• Selling, stocking, and pricing of store merchandise
• Complete customer transaction through the use of a point-of-sale system
• Straighten racks, shelves, and other areas of the sales floor
• Promote the store inventory to potential customers while providing an extremely high level of customer service
• Accept and sort donations in the donations center
• Perform light housekeeping duties as needed
• Work collaboratively with staff, volunteers, and community service to meet resale store objectives.
• Provide excellent customer service internally and externally
• Create and maintain attractive displays and merchandising techniques while maximizing the use of floor space and schedule regular rotation of displays and merchandise
• Ensure excellent donor and customer interactions and service
• Complete, on a timely basis, all administrative duties as assigned
• Attend all mandatory meetings and trainings

Requirements

• Ability to operate point of sale system and accurately handle cash and merchandise
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Enjoy connecting with customers and demonstrating an enthusiastic and positive attitude
• Comfortable with technology both general computer and point of sale systems
• Ability to work a flexible schedule, including weekdays and weekends
• Position requires periods of continuous standing, reaching, bending, stooping, kneeling, lifting, side-to-side and back-and-forth movements, and other physical movements that are necessary to sort and move bags/boxes of donated clothing and/or household and electronic merchandise, and then placing them in bins and other containers to be stored or put out on the store floor

Part-time Benefits

• Accrue IL Paid Leave for All Time
• EAP