Bookseller - PT

Job Summary

A Barnes & Noble bookstore is a gathering place for readers and the community. As a Bookseller, you are an integral member of the bookselling team at the heart of our stores. You welcome customers in a cheerful and helpful way by saying hello, answering questions, and consistently going out of your way to connect readers with the right titles and products.

You help unpack and shelve deliveries and tidy displays. You operate the registers quickly and courteously, ensuring customers receive highly professional service.

TX
- Webster
- Baybrook - 2671

Part-Time

• Maintain reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
• Fill scheduling gaps when possible, being flexible and responsive to the needs of the store — we are open from early mornings to late evenings every day, including weekends and most holidays.
• Approach work positively and energetically, performing assigned tasks with purpose and reliability.
• Support and consider colleagues, helping others on the team and showing kindness.
• Remain cheerful with customers, consistently going out of your way to help them.
• Show aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and acquire new knowledge in the store.
• Enjoy being a bookseller!

• Use varied technology, including registers, computers, tablets, and other tools comfortably and efficiently.
• Develop strong merchandising skills to maintain the book presentation and store cleanliness.
• Develop effective visual merchandising skills for gifting, toys, and other product categories.
• Run a register competently to serve customers quickly and reliably.
• Support the receiving and unpacking of deliveries, and the efficient and accurate shelving that follows.
• Find books and other products with ease and accuracy, using personal knowledge, colleagues, Book Master, and other information tools.
• Support the café team willingly and effectively when needed.
• Understand loss prevention procedures and de‑escalation techniques, identifying theft, spotting problematic behavior, and seeking support in the store.

• Build book knowledge across fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books.
• Use this knowledge to maintain sections and present books attractively.
• Make effective book recommendations to customers throughout varied sections.
• Learn to sell books positively, supporting key sales objectives such as Monthly Picks, Book of the Year, Membership, preorders, and more.
• Build knowledge in Educational Toys and Games, Specialty Games, Hobby and Collectibles, music and movies, and Newsstand, learning new areas throughout the store.
• Use this knowledge to maintain all sections and backstock effectively, helping customers with their shopping.
• Support the success of key sales objectives, products, and new releases.

Benefits for part‑time workers vary by hours:

• Less than 20 hours per week:
  Employee Discount, EAP, Sick Pay.
• 20–29.99 hours per week:
  Employee Discount, EAP, Sick Pay, Paid Time Off (including Maternity and Parental Leave), Company Paid Holidays, Transit, and 401(k) with Company Match.
• 30 hours or more:
  Employee Discount, EAP, Sick Pay, Paid Time Off (including Maternity and Parental Leave), Company Paid Holidays, 401(k) with Company Match, Comprehensive Health Benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision), Healthcare and Dependent Care Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Transit, and Tuition Reimbursement.