Sales Associate

Essential Job Functions

• Create and maintain a warm, inviting, easy-to-navigate shopping environment.
• Build and share expertise on products, promotions, services, and brand rewards programs – relevant and customized to the unique and wide range of shopper needs, relationships, and occasions.
• Help and affirm customers in finding the perfect card and gift solutions to fulfill their missions of caring and connecting.
• Share and showcase stories and communities of caring to reinforce the cycle of kindness.
• Make the interaction easy and convenient for shoppers by effectively handling store operations -- product replenishment & merchandising, ringing sales, processing shipments, managing inventory, fulfilling Hallmark.com orders, doing curbside deliveries, etc.
• Deliver an exceptional consumer shopping experience that leaves guests feeling inspired, enabled, affirmed, and eager to return.
• Work as a team to help meet the sales goals for the store by ensuring each customer leaves with everything they needed and a few things they didn’t know they needed!
• Uphold all company policies and practices.
• Perform all housekeeping of store including backroom, front of store, bathroom, etc.
• Perform/completes other duties or special projects as assigned

Required Qualifications

• If under 18, must have ability to meet work permit requirements, if applicable.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule that meets the needs of the business, including but not limited to events, holidays, evenings and weekends.
• Ability to provide proof of eligibility to work legally in the United States

Paid Benefits

Not specified

Working Conditions & Physical Demands

• Must be able to continuously to stand/walk, push/pull, lift/carry up to 10 pounds, utilize fine finger movement (i.e. keyboard operating, writing, etc.) and tactile/touch to assist with products/customers/registers/equipment/etc., and grasping/gripping/holding with hands and/or fingers.
• Must be able to frequently bend at the waist, climb/work at heights (i.e. step ladders, ladders, etc.), kneel and squat, lift and/or carry up to 40 pounds, and reach overhead with arms raised above shoulder height/forward reaching.
• Must be able to occasionally balance on uneven surfaces/ground, lift and/or carry up to 50 pounds.
• Must be able to rarely/infrequently drive or travel, lift and/or carry up to 75 pounds, or sit/remain in a seated position during job performance.
• Must be able to continuously communicate with customers, co-workers, vendors, either in-person or over the phone, including speaking, hearing, and sight in order to assist customers.
• While working, this position may be exposed to dust, cleaning agents, truck exhaust when receiving deliveries, inadequate lighting at close of business, tolerance of noise from products and customers, tolerance of smells/scents of products (i.e. candles, potpourri, lotions, etc.), work outside (i.e. taking out trash, assisting with deliveries, etc.), and work at heights in the stockroom or on the product floor.

Employment Status

This is a regular, part-time, hourly position that is deemed “non-exempt” by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and will typically work between 6-20 hours per week, not to exceed an average of 28 hours per week.

General Requirements & Disclaimers

LGA Retail, Inc. (d.b.a. Little Green Apple) does not discriminate in its employment, or any other programs or activities, on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, economic status, age, marital status, sexual orientation or disability. We provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with a disability, if requested.