Sales Associate - Closer, SeaTac Airport Store

About Tender Loving Empire With 7 brick-and-mortar stores across Portland and Seattle, plus an online shop, Tender Loving Empire curates a collection of goods and music from hundreds of independent makers. Our customers want to support their creative community, surround themselves with beauty, and live wholeheartedly.

TLE has been part of Portland's creative community since 2006, guided by a simple, three-part mission: empower and support creatives, enrich and fulfill employees, and delight and inspire patrons. We truly believe that living wholeheartedly means being an optimist and a do-gooder, a dabbler and a dreamer. It means going after your dreams while helping others succeed in theirs.

It means understanding that small businesses keep our communities from becoming boring, homogenous, impersonal, money-over-people places. Applying to work at Tender Loving Empire is a choice to support hundreds of makers, musicians, and small businesses. Together, we can make our communities more vibrant, creative, compassionate, and connected.

Job Summary

This position is responsible for greeting and connecting with customers while actively seeking opportunities to share insight into our products, makers, and the TLE brand. Sales Associates prioritize customer engagement, store look and feel, and product knowledge and sales. Location SeaTac International Airport 17801 International Blvd, SeaTac, WA 98158 Essential Duties

1. Creates an exceptional and unique customer experience by circulating the sales floor and connecting with customers on products and offerings.
2. Ensures merchandise is stocked, clean, and presentable at all times.
3. Accurately rings in sales using point of sale, processes refunds, and remedies or escalates inventory discrepancies. Job Duties
4. Helps customers determine their needs or interests and provides recommendations based on their individual connections.
5. Develops strong relationships with customers and looks for opportunities to further expand their purchases.
6. Takes full advantage of company training and literature to retain current knowledge of product and vendor offerings.
7. Upholds company cleanliness and organization standards of merchandise floor, stock room, and all storage areas.
8. Signs customers up for TLE & Me reward program and engages with them on program incentives.
9. Stays up to date on current promotional offerings and ensures customers are aware of these while shopping.
10. Opens and closes stores within scheduled time, ensuring all daily and weekly tasks are completed.
11. Seeks opportunities to meet daily financial goals. Supervisory Responsibilities: This position does not have any supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications

Ability to perform essential job duties with or without reasonable accommodation and without posing a direct threat to safety or health of the employee or others. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

1. Ability to read, write, comprehend, and speak English.
2. Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
3. Ability to write simple correspondence.
4. Ability to effectively present information one-on-one and in small group situations to customers, vendors, and other employees of the organization.
5. Ability to use and communicate effectively on Slack.
6. Ability to use common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
7. Ability to work between multiple TLE locations.
8. Weekend availability, and availability 3-5 weekdays.

Education

& Experience Minimum of one year in a specialty retail and/or customer service role. Physical Demands & Work Environment

1. The employee may be exposed to weather based heat and humidity.
2. While performing the duties of this job the employee must frequently lift up to 15 pounds and must occasionally lift and or move up to 25 pounds.
3. The employee is also regularly required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers to work with products, twist, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and reach with hands and arm.