About the Role
As a Sales Associate, you will be the face of our brand, ensuring every customer has a positive experience. You will help create a lifestyle aesthetic showcasing the versatility of our products, guide customers, and maintain a visually appealing environment in line with Salomon's brand guidelines.
Responsibilities
- Work towards and reach set sales targets.
- Efficiently complete assigned tasks.
- Proactively and positively collaborate with your team.
- Use exceptional customer service skills, sales techniques, and product knowledge to help customers find the perfect products and drive sales.
- Incorporate apparel and footwear into styling suggestions, demonstrating how they can create a cohesive lifestyle aesthetic.
- Quickly and positively find solutions for customers, ensuring a responsive and engaging interaction, with diligent follow-up.
- Address complaints and objections swiftly and professionally.
- Help protect company assets and procedures by promoting loss prevention practices.
- Ensure the sales floor and stockroom are clean, well-organized, and inviting for customers.
- Confidently handle cash and digital transactions, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
- Contribute to maintaining high brand visual standards, ensuring excellence in product presentation at all times.
- Support with replenishment and pricing duties, including preparation for sales and promotions as needed.
Requirements
- Must have a background in sales, retail, or customer service.
- Natural curiosity, high energy, and positive outlook.
- Deep enthusiasm for our brand and products.
- Talent for identifying customer needs and matching them with the perfect products.
- Background in customer service equips you with the skills to handle any situation with grace and professionalism.
- Knack for motivating and uplifting those around you, fostering a supportive and enthusiastic environment.
- Adaptable to the business's evolving needs.
- Availability to work various shifts including mornings, evenings, and weekends.
- Expected to be available to work on Black Friday.
- Availability required from the second week of December until the end of the holiday season.
- Regularly required to travel, talk and hear.
- Frequently required to sit, stand and walk.
- Occasionally required to kneel, stoop, crouch, twist and lift to 30 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.
Skills
- Customer Service
- Sales Techniques
- Product Knowledge
- Styling Suggestions
- Problem Solving
- Loss Prevention
- Visual Merchandising
- Transaction Handling
- Team Collaboration
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Part-Time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Sales
- Retail
- Customer Service
Salary/Compensations
- USD 19 - USD 23 - hourly
Benefits
- Opportunities to engage in the community and with industry partners.
- Access to professional development and growth opportunities within the company.
- Attend exclusive brand events and product launches.
About the Company
- Amer Sports is a sporting goods company with internationally recognized brands including Salomon, Arc’teryx, Peak Performance, Atomic and Wilson.
- Salomon was born in 1947 in the heart of the French Alps and the birthplace of modern alpinism.
- Salomon’s commitment to innovative design and passion for mountain sports created a vast range of revolutionary new concepts in bindings, boots, skis and apparel for both Alpine and Nordic skiing and brought innovative solutions to footwear, apparel and equipment for snowboarding, adventure racing, mountaineering, hiking, trail running, and many other sports.
- Through performance driven design, Salomon delivers innovation and progression to mountain sports; converting new ideas into action and expanding the limits of possibility.
- Salomon’s heritage, culture, and commitment are tied together by one simple concept: the world’s leading mountain people creating the world’s leading mountain products.
- Salomon is responsibly committed towards the outdoor through its sustainability program.
- Diversity is one of Salomon’s five values, therefore we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all.
- Salomon is headquartered in Annecy, France.
Equal Opportunity
- Diversity is one of Salomon’s five values, therefore we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all.
