Temporary Associate
$31,200–$50,440 year
On-siteDeer Park, New York, United States
Job Summary
Greet guests warmly and confidently, demonstrating strong product knowledge across handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, and home décor. Actively listen to understand customer needs, provide styling advice, suggest add-ons, and create complete looks using creativity to showcase multiple ways to wear products. Guide customers through purchase decisions, ensure a seamless checkout experience, and reinforce their choices to encourage returns. Drive results through strong customer connections and storytelling while maintaining operational excellence, including stockroom organization and POS transactions. Give and receive honest, constructive feedback. Work a flexible schedule including nights, weekends, and busy season, with the ability to lift 25 lbs regularly.
Required Qualifications
- Professional selling skills
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication abilities
- Prior experience in a retail environment
- Ability to multitask, prioritize, and work collaboratively in a team setting
- Social media awareness
- Willingness to learn omni/virtual selling techniques
- English proficiency
- Local language proficiency per market
- Ability to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business—including nights, weekends, busy season, and high-traffic retail days (including but not limited to public holidays)
- Ability to lift at least 25 lbs. regularly (up to 50 lbs, occasionally), to climb, bend, kneel, and maneuver sales floor and stockroom
Desired Qualifications
- Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and 'actionable' positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary
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