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Seasonal Store Sales Specialist

Job Description

Our team seeks a Store Sales Specialist to help us create better outdoor experiences by sharing knowledge, giving recommendations, and engaging with customers daily. With your help, we will deliver our 100% customer satisfaction guarantee by facilitating transactions, selling memberships, and offering REI products and services.

In addition to helping keep the store looking good, you also help keep the merchandise organized on the floor. Thanks to your knowledge of REI products and services, you’ll stay ahead of the trends and share that knowledge with our customers.

Job Responsibilities

Assist customers with questions about products, memberships, and special ticket sales.
Maintain visual standards with store management, merchandising, and sales leads.
Engage in REI Sales & Service Training and promote REI goods and services.
Support store pick-up, including receiving and processing products.
Follow REI loss prevention and safety procedures.
Ability to work a flexible schedule based on business needs.
Additional duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Store retail experience is preferred.
Enjoys communicating and building relationships, both inside and outside the organization.
Open to feedback and other viewpoints in the spirit of supporting the business.
Uses business understanding, innovative thinking, and sound judgment to solve problems.
Makes solid recommendations by combining information from various sources.
Produces quality work by setting practical goals and establishing priorities.
Organizes and uses resources to meet deadlines and keep others in the loop about plans and progress.
Engages and influences others to accomplish worthwhile organizational goals.

Compensation & Benefits

We are committed to practices that promote pay equity and transparency. As applicable Pay Transparency laws require, REI provides a range of compensation for roles that may be hired in locations under these requirements. Factors determining your salary may include many factors, including your specific skills and experience, geographic area, or other relevant factors.

REI offers all regular employees a generous discount, health benefits access, a retirement savings plan, and accrued time off. Click here for a detailed overview of benefits plans by employee profile.

About the Organization

REI Co-op is united around discovering, building, and celebrating better working methods so folks can find and pursue a love of the outdoors. When you work for the co-op, you do your best work with the support to live your best life. And you play a part in shaping the future of the outdoors for people and our planet.

We lead with our values, and we are creating a culture that inspires and enables everyone to bring their whole self and highest ambitions to work every day so that we can achieve more outside together. Join us in seeking, creating, and building new ways to work.

At REI, we believe the outdoors is for all. We know that there’s strength in our diversity – that each employee brings unique skills, experiences, and perspectives. To work towards this commitment and fulfill our brand promise of inspiring and enabling a life outside for everyone, we seek employees who demonstrate different ways of working, create a sense of belonging, and actively listen and learn.

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