M&M'S New York - Seasonal Retail Associate

We need to produce HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, no invented or summarized away detail. Remove boilerplate. We need to parse the job description. Content: - Job Description: M&M’S New York is currently seeking Seasonal Part Time Associates for the 2026 Holiday Season! This position will be from September 2026 to January 2027 with the potential to become a permanent associate based on performance and business need. This position pays $20.20 per hour. Candidates ages 18 or older eligible for this position. - Job Overview: Our Seasonal Retail Associates will be trained in all areas of the sales floor and will be responsible for providing an exceptional experience for our Guests, whether in a character, character buddy, cashier, selling, or merchandising position. This customer-facing role requires positivity, product knowledge and determination to create an unforgettable customer experience. We welcome unique personalities, just as our M&M brand is rooted in our unique characters! - Job Requirements And Qualifications Must be excited to SMILE and work in a fun, fast-paced environment to make every interaction a positively unforgettable experience for our guests while driving daily sales and metrics. Must have authorization to work in the U.S. Must be 18 years old to apply 1-2 years of previous retail experience required. Strong interpersonal skills with proven ability to communicate and share information with diverse groups of customers and peers Resourceful self-starter, works well independently as well as part of a team, and able to adapt quickly to changing priorities Ability to comply with all company policies and procedures, including safety, food handling, Quality, Loss Prevention and Emergency procedures Ability to work a flexible schedule with retail hours, including days, evenings, weekends, and/or holidays - WHAT DO WE OFFER TO YOU? Immediate Openings – Start Right Away! Competitive wages starting at $20.20/hour Flexible Schedules After 90 days of employment *Based on business needs and performance 401K and paid time off Tuition reimbursement program Mental Health benefits 8 FREE face-to-face counseling visits per issue per calendar year Ongoing Developmental Programs Corporate/ Store Discounts Career Opportunities within the store and in Mars Inc (https://careers.mars.com/) We need sections: About the role (maybe job overview), Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which sections have content. - About the role: Could be the job overview description. That is substantive. - Responsibilities: The job overview mentions responsibilities: trained in all areas of sales floor, providing exceptional experience, character, character buddy, cashier, selling, merchandising, positivity, product knowledge, determination, etc. Could be considered responsibilities. But we need to avoid duplication. Could combine overview and responsibilities? The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could have About the role (overview) and Responsibilities (list of duties). But we need to see if there is distinct content for responsibilities. The overview already includes responsibilities; but we can still separate: About the role: description of role; Responsibilities: bullet list of duties (trained in all areas, providing exceptional experience, etc). However we must not invent or summarize away detail; we must preserve all substantive info. So we can split but must ensure we don't lose any info. - Requirements: Must have authorization to work in the U.S., Must be 18 years old to apply, 1-2 years of previous retail experience required. - Qualifications: Might be similar to requirements; but we have "Strong interpersonal skills...", "Resourceful self-starter...", "Ability to comply with all company policies...", "Ability to work a flexible schedule...". Those could be qualifications or skills. The instruction says we can have sections Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We need to decide what goes where. Typically Requirements are mandatory (age, work auth, experience). Qualifications are desired attributes (interpersonal skills, self-starter, adaptability, policy compliance). Skills could be specific like product knowledge, positivity, etc. But we need to avoid thin sections. Perhaps combine Qualifications and Skills into one section? But we have to follow instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could have Requirements, Qualifications (including interpersonal skills, self-starter, adaptability, policy compliance, flexible schedule), Benefits, Pay, Schedule. About the role and Responsibilities maybe combined? Let's see. We have content about responsibilities: "trained in all areas of the sales floor and will be responsible for providing an exceptional experience for our Guests, whether in a character, character buddy, cashier, selling, or merchandising position." That's a responsibility. Also "This customer-facing role requires positivity, product knowledge and determination to create an unforgettable customer experience." That's more like required skills/attributes. We could have: - About the role: brief description (seasonal part-time associates, Sep 2026-Jan 2027, potential permanent, pay $20.20/hr, 18+). This includes schedule info? Actually schedule is separate. - Responsibilities: bullet list: trained in all areas of sales floor; provide exceptional experience as character, character buddy, cashier, selling, merchandising. - Requirements: Must have authorization to work in the U.S.; Must be 18 years old; 1-2 years previous retail experience. - Qualifications/Skills: Strong interpersonal skills; ability to communicate/share info with diverse groups; Resourceful self-starter; works independently and as part of team; able to adapt quickly to changing priorities; Ability to comply with company policies (safety, food handling, Quality, Loss Prevention, Emergency); Ability to work flexible schedule (days, evenings, weekends, holidays); Positivity; product knowledge; determination; Excited to SMILE and work in fun fast-paced environment to make interactions unforgettable while driving daily sales and metrics. - Benefits: Immediate openings; Competitive wages starting at $20.20/hour (but pay already maybe separate); Flexible Schedules; After 90 days of employment (based on business needs and performance) 401K and paid time off; Tuition reimbursement program; Mental Health benefits 8 FREE face-to-face counseling visits per issue per calendar year; Ongoing Developmental Programs; Corporate/Store Discounts; Career Opportunities within store and Mars Inc. - Pay: $20.20 per hour (maybe also mention competitive wages starting at $20.20/hour). Since pay is mentioned, we should include Pay section. - Schedule: Flexible schedule with retail hours, including days, evenings, weekends, and/or holidays; also mention Flexible Schedules in benefits; but schedule section should capture schedule details. We must not repeat info unnecessarily but preserve all. Some overlap is okay as long as we don't lose info. However we should avoid duplication? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." It doesn't forbid duplication, but we should aim to not repeat unnecessarily? Not explicitly forbidden. But better to avoid duplication. We need to decide sections to include: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. But we can combine Qualifications and Skills if they overlap. However we have distinct content for both; we could keep both but they'd be thin? Let's see. Qualifications: Strong interpersonal skills, ability to communicate/share info with diverse groups, Resourceful self-starter, works independently and as part of team, able to adapt quickly to changing priorities, Ability to comply with company policies (safety, food handling, Quality, Loss Prevention, Emergency). That's a decent list. Skills: Positivity, product knowledge, determination, Excited to SMILE and work in fun fast-paced environment to make interactions unforgettable while driving daily sales and metrics. Also maybe ability to work flexible schedule? But schedule is separate. Thus we could have both sections. But we must avoid creating sections with filler like "not specified". All sections have content. Now we need to output HTML fragment only, no /, no markdown fences. We'll produce something like:

About the role

M&M’S New York is seeking Seasonal Part Time Associates for the 2026 Holiday Season, from September 2026 to January 2027, with potential to become a permanent associate based on performance and business need. The position pays $20.20 per hour and is open to candidates aged 18 or older.

Responsibilities

• Receive training in all areas of the sales floor.
• Provide an exceptional experience for guests in roles such as character, character buddy, cashier, selling, or merchandising.

Requirements

• Authorization to work in the United States.
• Minimum age of 18 years.
• 1–2 years of previous retail experience.

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal skills with proven ability to communicate and share information with diverse groups of customers and peers.
• Resourceful self‑starter who works well independently and as part of a team.
• Able to adapt quickly to changing priorities.
• Ability to comply with all company policies and procedures, including safety, food handling, Quality, Loss Prevention, and Emergency procedures.

Skills

• Positivity, product knowledge, and determination to create an unforgettable customer experience.
• Excited to SMILE and work in a fun, fast‑paced environment to make every interaction a positively unforgettable experience while driving daily sales and metrics.

Benefits

• Immediate openings – start right away.
• Competitive wages starting at $20.20/hour.
• Flexible schedules.
• After 90 days of employment (based on business needs and performance): 401(k) and paid time off.
• Tuition reimbursement program.
• Mental health benefits: 8 FREE face‑to‑face counseling visits per issue per calendar year.
• Ongoing developmental programs.
• Corporate/store discounts.
• Career opportunities within the store and across Mars Inc.

Pay

$20.20 per hour.

Schedule

Flexible schedule with retail hours, including days, evenings, weekends, and/or holidays.

We need to ensure we didn't repeat pay info in Benefits and Pay; we have pay in Benefits as "Competitive wages starting at $20.20/hour." That's okay but maybe duplicate. Could remove from Benefits to avoid duplication. But we need to preserve all substantive info; if we remove that line from Benefits, we lose the mention of competitive wages starting at $20.20/hour, but we still have Pay section with $20.20 per hour. That's essentially same info. The benefit line also mentions "Competitive wages starting at $20.20/hour." The Pay section says "$20.20 per hour." Both convey same. If we remove the benefit line, we still preserve the wage info via Pay section. So we can drop that line from Benefits to avoid duplication. However the benefit line also says "Competitive wages starting at $20.20/hour" which is same as Pay. It's okay to drop. Similarly, Benefits includes "Flexible schedules." Schedule section covers that. Could drop from Benefits to avoid duplication. But we need to preserve