Sales Associate Jobs

Overview

For Qualified Candidates: $15/ hour

An ideal Sales Associate will provide outstanding service, maintain a clean, customer friendly environment, stock and merchandise products, fulfill orders, and operate the register. Store employees are expected to demonstrate reliability, honesty, and greet customers with a smile.

What might you do?

• Answer questions regarding the store and its merchandise.
• Greet customers and ascertain what each customer wants or needs.
• Clean shelves, counters, and tables.
• Drive sales through effective communication with customers.
• Maintain knowledge of current sales and promotions, policies regarding payment and exchanges, and security practices.
• Bag purchases.
• Check in merchandise deliveries from vendors.
• Open and close cash registers, performing tasks such as counting money, separating charge slips, coupons, and vouchers, balancing cash drawers, and making deposits into the safe.
• Maintain a clean, customer friendly environment in your store.
• Maintain records related to sales.
• Ticket, arrange and display merchandise to promote sales.
• Plus sell items to customers that match what they are already buying.
• Promote the 7-Eleven Rewards program to customers.
• Perform cashier duties (ring sales and maintain cash control)
• Inventory stock and display new stock.
• Recommend, select, and help locate or obtain merchandise based on customer needs and desires.
• Exemplify effective communication and demonstrate teamwork.
• Watch for and recognize security risks and thefts, and know how to prevent or handle these situations.
• Provide prompt, efficient, and courteous customer service.
• Forecast, order and stock merchandise (with appropriate training)

No experience needed, but applicants must be willing to learn. We would prefer an applicant with convenience store or gas station background, but all previous retail or food positions are a plus.

Applicants must have a basic understanding of math to perform ringing up sales and accounting for cash.

Applicants must have a reliable form of transportation to travel to their job (car, bike, public transport, or proximity to location).

Must be at least 21 years of age to sell liquor and tobacco products. If hired, applicants will be required to pass an exam to sell age restricted products.

We provide paid computer based and in person training prior to beginning the job duties. We offer tuition reimbursement and free fountain beverages for employees only while on shift.

We are open to full-time or part-time applicants (20-40 hours per week) for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shift.

Responsibilities

Physical Requirements

While physical requirements for store employees may change depending on your franchisee, the position typically requires constant standing, bending, reaching, frequent lifting of 1-5 lbs, and occasional lifting of up to 40 -50 lbs.

Qualifications

You acknowledge and understand that this position is for a potential employment opportunity at a 7-Eleven convenience store operated by an independent contractor franchisee of 7-Eleven, Inc., and is not for a potential employment opportunity at 7-Eleven, Inc. The information you provide will be provided directly to the franchisee. You must communicate directly with the franchisee who will conduct the entire hiring process. The franchisee is solely responsible for all hiring decisions and other employment matters and may contact you to request additional information or conduct an interview. 7-Eleven Franchisees are Independent Contractors who are solely responsible to control the manner and means of the day to day operation of their stores. As such, each Franchisee solely controls all aspects of his or her employment practices.

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