Position: Retail Sales Associate
Location: In-person, Midtown Manhattan, NYC
Company: Panda Trim Inc.
Start Date: Ready to start immediately
Type: Full-time, Part-time
Expected Hours: 30-40 per week
Compensation: $20-22 per hour
Benefits: Employee discount, limited PTO days
Role Description
We are seeking an energetic, dependable part-time retail sales associate to join our team in the bustling garment district. We are a specialty store in all things garment-related. If you are a fashion design student or looking to design your own garments, this is a great way to learn about the products you use to create a garment.
As a member of our team, you will assist customers, process transactions, help merchandise the sales floor and coordinate shipments and deliveries with the rest of our team. Customer service skills and ability to multitask are required as well as the ability to quickly learn about products and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Greet customers in friendly, welcoming manner as they enter
- Identify customer needs and offer appropriate recommendations
- Prioritize customer satisfaction and overall positive experience
- Develop solutions for customers by listening to their needs and recommending appropriate products or solutions
- Utilized company's POS system to cash customers out.
- Utilize computer system to invoice customers with accounts
- Arrange pick-ups and deliveries / outgoing shipments
- Answer and fulfill phone orders
- Safeguard the shop's inventory
- Assist in maintaining stock and setting up merchandise
- Collaborate with other team members to keep sales floor area clean and organized at all times
- Communicate any issues or problems that may arise to manager to help resolve them
- Work as a team to achieve sales goals
Required Qualifications Requirements:
- High school diploma/GED required
- Authorized to work in USA
- Ability to multitask and work in fast-paced environment
- Attention to detail and quick problem solving skills
- Previous sales experience (2+ years preferred)
- Able to navigate around computer and programs (knowledge of Quickbooks is a plus)
- Must have a positive, high-energy, friendly, outgoing and engaging personality
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Lift up to 40 pounds
- Comfortable standing for long periods of time
- Move about the store, talk with customers, reach, stoop, crouch and climb ladders and be present at the counter for the majority of the shift
- Must learn about products and their use in order to properly advise customers about specialty products in sewing/pattern-making department
- Appreciation for fashion/sewing is a plus!
Submit your resume with your application, and we will reach out to you soon!