Overview: Promote, merchandise and sell interior, and patio furniture, grills, accessories and gifts as part of Village Green's award team. Sales Associates also answer phones and provide other customer service as needed to support business operations.
Duties:
- Provide excellent customer service
- Engage customers to determine their needs, answer questions and provide information on products that may meet those needs.
- Write up quotations for customers
- Follow-up on quotations
- Special order furniture for customers
- Follow up on special order and repair status for customers
- Work with customers to resolve any issues
- Merchandise product in attractive manner
- Maintain sales floor appearance
- Reset the department for seasonal product
- Assist with product pricing, data entry and inventory management
- Answer telephones
- Operate cash registers, scanning goods and collecting payments or issuing credits, refunds or exchanges. Apply retail math skills to process transactions accurately.
- Keep product clean and department updated
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Ability to provide outstanding customer service
- Desire to develop a high level of product knowledge
- Proven experience in sales, preferably in furniture and outdoor cooking
- Strong organizational skills to manage inventory and merchandise product displays effectively
- Excellent communication skills to interact with customers and team members
- Knowledge of retail math concepts for pricing and discounts
- Telephone etiquette
- Familiarity with Point of Sales Systems (POS) or other computer skills
- Verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Attention to detail
- Organizational skills
- Ability to follow verbal and written instructions
- Ability to work as a member of a team
- Ability to stand for long periods of time
- Ability to lift product up to 25 lbs.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $14.00 - $16.00 per hour
Expected hours: 32 – 40 per week
Benefits:
Shift:
People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply
Ability to Commute:
- Rockford, IL 61114 (Required)
Work Location: In person