Sales Associate - Part time

Wings Program Inc; Niles (IL); On-site; USD 17,000 - 21,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

403b Retirement Plan

403b Employer Match

IL Paid Leave for All or Chicago Paid?

Vision Insurance

EAP

Job summary

Wings Resale stores in Niles, IL are seeking a part-time Sales Associate to support day-to-day operations under supervision. You will assist customers, process transactions, stock merchandise, and maintain an inviting sales floor.

Ideal candidates are friendly, reliable, comfortable with POS systems, and able to work a flexible schedule including weekends. Donation handling and teamwork with staff and volunteers are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Cash handling and operating a POS system.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Outgoing personality with enthusiasm for customer interaction.
• Comfort with technology and POS systems.
• Flexible schedule including weekdays and weekends.
• Physical ability to lift and move boxes and merchandise.

Responsibilities

• Sell, stock, and price store merchandise.
• Process customer transactions with POS.
• Straighten racks and maintain orderly shelves.
• Promote inventory and provide high-level customer service.
• Accept and sort donations.
• Perform light housekeeping.
• Collaborate with staff and volunteers.
• Create attractive displays and rotate merchandise.

Skills

Customer service

Cash handling

POS operation

Teamwork

Flexibility

Communication

Physical stamina

Tools

POS Software

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

• 403b Retirement Plan
• 403b Employer Match
• IL Paid Leave for All or Chicago Paid Leave
• Vision Insurance
• EAP