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Retail Store Sales Associate - Boston Market

Blick Art Materials · Boston, MA · 1 mo ago
Business Development$17–$17.25/hrInternship
We need to output HTML fragment with headings

for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Let's extract sections: - About the role: The first paragraph: "Your Role... By exhibiting exceptional teamwork, boundless curiosity, and the utmost care, the Retail Store Sales Associate will assist their team to fulfill Blick’s commitment to our customers, the Arts, and our local communities. The Retail Store Sales Associate will do this by maintaining outstanding customer service, generating revenue though helpful product knowledge, housekeeping, merchandising, signing, pricing, POS operations, and loss prevention in adherence to all company policies and procedures." That's about the role. - Responsibilities: List after "Responsibilities include," then bullet points: - Consistently delivers superior customer service by combining sales, product knowledge, and other skills training to meet or exceed customer expectations. - Completes and utilizes the following programs: Blick Onboarding Training, Blick Sales Training, Preferred Customer Program, Special Orders, and Custom Services Training from NDS. - Provide customer service at the Custom Services desk including making appointments for customers, consulting with customers on their Custom Services project, taking Custom Services orders, and delivering completed Custom Services orders in store. - Displays an energetic and positive attitude with all customer interactions. - Assist in the coordination of merchandise set-ups, has knowledge of visual standards and techniques, and has the ability to implement and maintain the store as set forth by store management. - Follows directions and prioritizes tasks to meet deadlines assigned with minimal supervision. - Understands and acts on the procedures required for reporting low stock levels, inventory discrepancies, and customer product requests to management as needed. - General Requirements: bullet list: - Ability to work both independently and in a team environment. - Excellent Communication Skills. - Working knowledge of a variety of traditional fine art mediums preferred, including but not limited to: paints, markers, pencils, print making materials, clay, papers etc. - Scheduling Requirements: bullet list: - Availability to work flexible schedules including day/evening shifts, weekends and holidays as required by the needs of the business. - Regular attendance in accordance with the retail attendance policy. - Associates in this role are scheduled an average of 15 - 25 hours per week based on availability and the needs of the business - Competencies: list: Elevates Service Standards, Leadership, Champions Core Values, People, Operations. Also "Supervisory Responsibility This position has no supervisory responsibilities." That's maybe a note. - Physical Demands: bullet list: - Must be able to lift and carry 50 pounds while using the appropriate lifting techniques and following all safety rules. - Prolonged walking, standing, and climbing ladders. - Travel: Minimal travel in the local area may be required. - Qualifications: bullet list: - High School Graduate or equivalent. - Other Duties: note about job description not comprehensive. Probably we can drop as boilerplate? It's not a standard section; maybe we can include under Requirements? But it's more like a disclaimer. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. "Other Duties" maybe considered boilerplate? It's not exactly legal but it's a generic statement. Might be considered boilerplate; but it's substantive? It says duties may change. Could be considered generic. I'd lean to drop it as it's not specific to role. - Pay Rate: includes pay range: $17.00 - $17.25 per hour + Sales Incentives. Also note about compliance. We'll include Pay section with that info. - Benefits Include: list: 401K & Profit Sharing Plan, Incentive Bonus Plans, Paid Time Off, Employee Discount. - Who We Are... and Mission... That's company overview; maybe we can include under About the role? Or maybe a separate section like "About the Company". Not in allowed headings list. The allowed headings are About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we should incorporate company overview into About the role maybe? But About the role already has description; we could add a paragraph about company after that. However instruction: "Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." So we can only use those headings. We must not create other headings. So we need to fit all content into those sections. We can put company overview under About the role as additional paragraph. - Skills: Not explicitly listed but we have competencies list: Elevates Service Standards, Leadership, Champions Core Values, People, Operations. Also maybe "Supervisory Responsibility This position has no supervisory responsibilities." That's not a skill. We could treat competencies as Skills section. So Skills heading with list of those competencies. - Requirements: Could combine General Requirements and Scheduling Requirements and Physical Demands and Qualifications? But we have separate headings for Requirements, Qualifications, Schedule. So we need to allocate. We have: - Requirements: maybe General Requirements (ability to work independently/team, excellent communication, working knowledge of fine art mediums). Also maybe "Physical Demands" could be under Requirements? But we have no separate heading for Physical Demands; we could include under Requirements as well. However we have Schedule heading separate. - Qualifications: High School Graduate or equivalent. - Schedule: Scheduling Requirements (flexible shifts, regular attendance, average hours). - Benefits: list. - Pay: pay range. - About the role: initial paragraph + company overview/mission. - Responsibilities: list. - Skills: competencies list. We must not include empty sections. Ensure each heading has substantive content. Now produce HTML fragment:

About the role

By exhibiting exceptional teamwork, boundless curiosity, and the utmost care, the Retail Store Sales Associate will assist their team to fulfill Blick’s commitment to our customers, the Arts, and our local communities. The Retail Store Sales Associate will do this by maintaining outstanding customer service, generating revenue though helpful product knowledge, housekeeping, merchandising, signing, pricing, POS operations, and loss prevention in adherence to all company policies and procedures.

Founded in 1911, Blick Art Materials is in its third generation of family ownership, and is the largest and oldest provider of art supplies in the United States. Our mission: At Blick Art Materials, our family owners and dedicated staff support the Visual Art Community by providing the widest selection of art supplies at the lowest prices. With extraordinary service and integrity, we strive to provide artists, educators, students, and our employees with the tools, assistance, and training they need to grow, innovate, and reach their creative potential.

Responsibilities

  • Consistently delivers superior customer service by combining sales, product knowledge, and other skills training to meet or exceed customer expectations.
  • Completes and utilizes the following programs: Blick Onboarding Training, Blick Sales Training, Preferred Customer Program, Special Orders, and Custom Services Training from NDS.
  • Provide customer service at the Custom Services desk including making appointments for customers, consulting with customers on their Custom Services project, taking Custom Services orders, and delivering completed Custom Services orders in store.
  • Displays an energetic and positive attitude with all customer interactions.
  • Assist in the coordination of merchandise set-ups, has knowledge of visual standards and techniques, and has the ability to implement and maintain the store as set forth by store management.
  • Follows directions and prioritizes tasks to meet deadlines assigned with minimal supervision.
  • Understands and acts on the procedures required for reporting low stock levels, inventory discrepancies, and customer product requests to management as needed.

Requirements

  • Ability to work both independently and in a team environment.
  • Excellent Communication Skills.
  • Working knowledge of a variety of traditional fine art mediums preferred, including but not limited to: paints, markers, pencils, print making materials, clay, papers etc.
  • Must be able to lift and carry 50 pounds while using the appropriate lifting techniques and following all safety rules.
  • Prolonged walking, standing, and climbing ladders.
  • Minimal travel in the local area may be required.

Qualifications

  • High School Graduate or equivalent.

Skills

  • Elevates Service Standards
  • Leadership
  • Champions Core Values
  • People
  • Operations

Benefits

  • 401K & Profit Sharing Plan
  • Incentive Bonus Plans
  • Paid Time Off
  • Employee Discount

Pay

$17.00 - $17.25 per hour + Sales Incentives

Schedule

  • Availability to work flexible schedules including day/evening shifts, weekends and holidays as required by the needs of the business.
  • Regular attendance in accordance with the retail attendance policy.
  • Associates in this role are scheduled an average of 15 - 25 hours per week based on availability and the needs of the business.
Check for any duplicated content: We included Physical Demands under Requirements; we also have Travel under Requirements. Good. We omitted "Other Duties" and "Supervisory Responsibility This position has no supervisory responsibilities." That's maybe a note under Skills? But we decided to drop as boilerplate. It's not a skill. Could be included under Requirements? But it's a statement about no supervisory responsibilities. Might be considered substantive? It's a specific detail. However the instruction says remove boilerplate, duplicated lines, etc. This line is somewhat boilerplate but it's a specific statement about supervisory responsibility. Might be okay to keep under Requirements or Skills? But we have no heading for Supervisory Responsibility. Could add a bullet under Requirements: "This position has no supervisory responsibilities." That is specific. I'd include it. Add to Requirements list. Also we omitted "Travel Minimal travel in the local area may be required." Already included. Now check if any content missing: The "Competencies Elevates Service Standards Leadership Champions Core Values People Operations Supervisory Responsibility This position has no supervisory responsibilities." We split competencies into Skills list, and supervisory note into Requirements. We also omitted "Associates in this role are scheduled an average of 15 - 25 hours per week based on availability and the needs of the business" included under Schedule. We omitted "Regular attendance in accordance with the retail attendance policy." included. We omitted "Availability to work flexible schedules including day/evening shifts, weekends and holidays as required by the needs of the business." included. We omitted "Ability to work both independently and in a team environment." included. We omitted "Excellent Communication Skills." included. We omitted "Working knowledge of a variety of traditional fine art mediums preferred, including but not limited to: paints, markers, pencils, print making materials, clay, papers etc." included. We omitted "High School Graduate or equivalent." included. We omitted "Pay Range The pay range below is provided in compliance with state/city specific laws. This pay range applies to this location. Pay ranges may be different in other locations." We kept just the pay range; we could include the compliance note but it's boilerplate. Probably okay to drop

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