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- Employment type
- Temporary
- Experience level
- Entry, Junior · 0+ years
- Minimum education
- High school
- Posting language
- English
- Working hours
- 40 hours per week
- Seniority
- Entry level
Job summary
Deliver a strong customer experience, drive sales and key performance indicators, and provide leadership support, including training and coaching new associates. Support daily store operations through register work, merchandising, opening and closing tasks, stockroom organization, and theft prevention.
Job details
We’re looking for music and pop culture fanatics to help create the best experience for our customers. As a Hot Topic Seasonal Key Holder, you’ll be a huge part of our success by supporting the store leadership team in providing the best customer experience, ensuring that fellow fans are able to get their hands on the merch they love. You’ll use your fandom knowledge to help train new recruits and ensure their success, while also supporting your Store Manager in daily operations and meeting sales targets. What You'll Do Provide an amazing shopping experience that will encourage customers to return. They’ll be impressed by your product knowledge, customer experience skills and use of the Force Step in and step up when needed. You’ll provide leadership support and help run the store when your Manager gets pulled away Understand store sales plan and comp sales goals, and help drive sales by increasing key KPIs: UPT and ADT Cover the sales floor zone and ensure that assigned areas are up to visual standards. You’ll also help in the opening and closing of the store Work the register; you’ll process sales transactions and use your fandom knowledge to drive add on sales. We’ll need you to also be able to close out the register and communicate and shortages or overages to your Store Manager Assist with planogram changes including store map, wall, fixture, & merchandising mix Let your voice be heard! You’ll communicate fashion & music trend information to management and respective HQ partners While we welcome wizards, we don’t like it when spells are stolen. You’ll work with Store Management to ensure there’s no misuse of spells and wizardry around theft. Support the maintenance of the mother ship; you’ll help keep the stock room organized and the store tidy. Train and coach new Sales Associates as needed to help them quickly get acclimated to the team Any other activities as assigned by your Store Leader What You'll Need Previous experience working in a retail environment. If you love music and pop culture, you’re in the right place! Superpowers in providing customer service and selling A High School Diploma or GED equivalent Avenger like collaboration and communication skills, as well as Captain America-like leadership The usual retail stuff: able to stand and walk around during scheduled hours, reaching for merch using a ladder, step stool and pole. You’ll also have to be able to move around boxes of awesome merchandise that may weigh up to 50 pounds $18.10 - $20.85 an hour Please note the pay range for this position starts as listed in the job posting, but other factors such as an individual’s education, location, meeting the minimum job requirements for the role, training and experience, will determine the final salary for potential new hires.
What you’ll do
Deliver a strong customer experience, drive sales and key performance indicators, and provide leadership support, including training and coaching new associates. Support daily store operations through register work, merchandising, opening and closing tasks, stockroom organization, and theft prevention.
Requirements
Applicants need previous retail experience, strong customer service and selling abilities, and a high school diploma or GED equivalent. They should also have collaboration, communication, and leadership skills and be able to stand, walk, reach for merchandise, use a ladder or step stool, and move boxes weighing up to 50 pounds.
Listed skills
- Customer service · Preferred
- Product Knowledge · Preferred
- Leadership · Preferred
- Communication · Preferred
- Teamwork · Preferred
- Upselling · Preferred
Other relevant skills
Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.
- Customer Service
- Retail Sales
- Product Knowledge
- Leadership
- Training And Coaching
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Sales Target Achievement
- Upselling
- Visual Merchandising
- Cash Register Operations
- Inventory And Stockroom Organization
- Store Operations
- Loss Prevention
- Trend Awareness
Job areas
- Retail
- Sales
- Customer Service & Support
- Management & Leadership
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