Retail Sales Associate - Emerging Blue, Inc.
Fairfax, VA
About the Job
Pop-Up Retail Associate
Reports to Retail Shift Lead / General Manager
Location: Fairfax, VA
The Position: Seasonal retail associate at our client's “pop-up” holiday shop location in Fairfax, VA mid September through August 2025. This is a fun position where you’ll stay busy, keep active, and learn a lot about baking! Sound good? Read on...
As a Pop-Up Retail Associate, you are responsible for providing a complete shopping experience and enthusiastically delivering great service to our customers while engaging with and educating and inspiring them in support of King Arthur’s brand and mission. You will join a customer-focused team.
Hours: We have full-time and part-time opportunities from 24-40 hours per week.
Pay: The standard starting pay rate for this role is $17.85 per hour.
Essential duties and responsibilities
Essential duties and responsibilities
- Greet and acknowledge all customers as they enter the store
- Provide a positive experience for each customer specific to their needs
- Assist customers with locating merchandise
- Support the team in meeting monthly sales goals via cross and up-selling
- Process sales transactions accurately at the register
- Maintain the store’s appearance by straightening, cleaning, replacing signage
- Restock product using proper inventory rotation
- Assist with retail projects as assigned
- Support all areas within the store
- Adhere to all safety, food and workplace regulations, procedures and policies
- Communicate consistently and clearly with your retail team, shift leads, and managers
- Report to work on time or notify the lead in charge by email and phone in advance if absent or late
- Adhere to company-wide green norms, look for ways to reduce, reuse, recycle
- Perform additional tasks and responsibilities as necessary
Minimum Job Requirements
- 1-2 years of experience in a retail related field, beneficial
- Baking knowledge and enthusiasm beneficial
- Strong verbal skills
- Ability to respond to all customer requests with exemplary service
- Ability to multitask in fast paced environment
- Ability to function independently
- Flexible schedule including weekends
- Engages positively with customers and coworkers
Physical requirements/work environment
Physical requirements
- Ability to remain standing for extended periods of time.
- Ability to lift 25 pounds.
Work environment
- Fast paced retail work environment
Safety
- Understand that safety is the responsibility of everyone at the organization
- Responsible for providing a safe and ergonomically sound work environment, identifying unsafe conditions and correcting these conditions immediately
- Engage in safety and compliance training programs and encourage 100% team participation in same
Uniform
- Name Tag (provided)
- Clean Apron (provided)
It is the responsibility of every employee to contribute to a positive work environment through cooperative and professional interactions with co-workers, customers and vendors.
There's room at our table for you. Apply today!
Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors prohibited by law. King Arthur Baking provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities to allow individuals to participate in both the application process and during employment. Such individuals are encouraged to seek accommodations to allow them to meet the functions and requirements of the position.
Source : Emerging Blue, Inc.