Part-Time Retail Associate
Goodwill of Central Illinois · Pekin, IL · 6 mo ago
Business Development$15/hrPart-time
About the role
This is a part-time position that pays $15.00 an hour.
Responsibilities
- Cashier: Rings up customer orders, maintains a balanced drawer, and follows all cash handling procedures and protocols.
- Provides general information about Goodwill programs to educate customers and answer questions.
- Directs all higher-level questions to the appropriate associate or manager.
- Maintains cleanliness of the sales floor (purge, size, run racks, and merchandise).
- Textiles or Wares Producer: Sorts product to identify quality and value (checks for holes, missing buttons, defective zippers, or stains and cleans as needed) and properly barbs, tags, and hangs textiles or wares.
- Produces 100 items per hour for wares/85 items per hour for textiles adhering to Goodwill’s pricing standards and updating daily production tracking sheet.
- Occasionally uses a pallet jack and regularly uses a conveyor belt.
- Donation Door Attendant: Accepts donations from customers and maintains a clean and clear donation door.
- Quickly and accurately sorts products and distributes them to appropriate areas.
- Maintains an efficient working area by ensuring the backroom is clean and organized (all boxes labeled, everything in its place, and a place for everything).
- Loads and unloads trucks as needed and regularly uses heavy equipment, including a pallet jack, double stacker, floor scrubber, and hydraulic lift.
- ECommerce Producer: Develops a keen eye to identify and secure items of value for ClickGoodwill.
- Stays informed of the market value of merchandise through eBay and other Internet shopping sites to properly tag, itemize, and secure items in totes for ClickGoodwill and educates team of eCommerce high ticket items.
- Properly, efficiently and carefully pack curated products onto pallets, wraps, and ships totes to ClickGoodwill to meet the store budget regarding totes shipped per week.
- E-Books Producer: Scans books received by the store and decides what is sent to ClickGoodwill or displayed at the store location to meet the store budget.
- Prints inventory sheets and packs, seals, and ships totes for ClickGoodwill.
- Identifies top sellers and manages a clean, organized, in-store sales-effective display.
- Rack and Cart Runner: Checks each rack/cart to ensure quality and value.
- Properly sizes, merchandises, and purges the sales floor.
- Maintains a clean and orderly sales floor, puts away carts, and stocks shelves.
- Runs one textile rack/wares cart per 15 minutes and updates daily production tracking sheet.
Qualifications
We value candidates who can demonstrate capability and articulate how prior experiences will help them contribute. We believe in continuous learning and professional development.
Skills
- Customer Focus
- Teamwork
- Ethical
- Attention to Detail
- Time Management
- Technical Knowledge
- Communication Skills
- Mathematical Aptitude
- Critical Thinking
Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and free Mental Health Counseling Services
- Robust discount and wellness programming
- Financial education program
- Sabbatical leave
- Daily pay options available
Mission and Values
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