PT Temporary Sales Associate, Edinburgh, IN
Who We Are:
Kontoor Brands, Inc. (KTB) is the parent company of Wrangler, Lee and Rock & Republic, with owned manufacturing facilities in Mexico and Nicaragua. Kontoor also owns and operates over 140 retail stores across the globe. Our global company employs more than 15,000 people in 65 countries, with world headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina, and regional headquarters in Geneva and Hong Kong.
Job Posting:
Position Summary:
The Sales Associate plays a crucial role in the store's day-to-day operations, focusing on customer engagement, store functionality, and maintaining merchandising standards. They excel in creating a warm and inviting atmosphere that enhances the shopping experience for our customers. This role is ideal for self-assured individuals who derive satisfaction from authentic, compelling, and motivating interactions with customers. Sales Associates have the authority to prioritize the customer's needs and are passionate about both promoting and fostering loyalty towards the brand and the store.
Key Responsibilities:
Brand Experience/Customer Service:
* Embraces the brands by wearing the brands at work and having a passion for the Lee and Wrangler products.
* Greets each customer.
* Actively engages customers on the sales floor by asking open-ended questions.
* Assists customer in the fitting room.
* Suggest the best products for the customers’ needs.
Operations, Loss Prevention, and Safety:
* Follows all company and store policies, processes, and procedures.
* React quickly to all customers and/or associate injuries and report them immediately to the manager on duty.
Visual Merchandising:
* Follows all directions regarding visual merchandising standards for the store.
Store Culture:
* Respects the background, experience, and unique differences of others, upholding the integrity and values of Kontoor Brands.
* Promotes an environment that encourages participation, creativity, and learning by sharing best practices and ideas.
* Continuously looks for ways to make the store sustainable and recognize the impact the store has on the environment.
* Embrace the culture and willing to make changes as directed by a member of management.
Job Requirements:
* Maintain a positive attitude and focus on customer satisfaction.
* Previous retail or service-oriented experience preferred but not required.
* Ability to work with a team to exceed sales results.
* Comfortable approaching and initiating conversation with customers.
* Ability to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business; will require weekends, evenings, and holidays.
Essential Functions:
* Operate office equipment and technology (i.e., cash register, computers, phones, scanners, etc.).
* Ability to stand during scheduled shifts for up to 8 hours.
* Walking and moving to assist customers, retrieve merchandise and recover the store.
* Lifting and carrying, ability to maneuver and/or lift up to 25 lbs. regularly, and up to 50 lbs. occasionally.
* Ability to push/pull full racks of merchandise for restocking the store.
* Ability to reach, stretch, bend, stoop, and crouch to retrieve items from shelves, restock, and maintain store cleanliness.
* Manual labor is required occasionally to assemble displays and/or rearrange the store layout.
* Vision to accurately read labels, assist customers, and tasks that require attention to detail.
* Ability to use fine manipulation, and grasp with hands to sort and organize clothing, e.g., place on hangers, folding, organize in color/size order.
Pay and Benefits:
* Compensation Range: $11.00 (or minimum wage) -$15.00 / hour for all states except New York and Colorado, the compensation is $15.50/hour.
* 401(k) with company match
* Employee assistance program
* Employee discounts
* Flexible schedule
Why Kontoor Brands?
At Kontoor, we offer a comprehensive benefit package to fit your lifestyle and our benefits are crafted with the same care as our products.
When our employees are healthy, secure and well, they bring their best selves to work. Kontoor Brands supports you with a competitive benefits program that provides choice and flexibility to meet your and your family’s needs – now and in the future. We offer resources to support your physical, emotional, social and financial wellbeing, plus benefits like discounts on our apparel. Kontoor Brands also provides four weeks of Paid Parental Leave to eligible employees who are new parents, Flexible Fridays and tuition reimbursement.
Our Kontoor D&I Mission:
At Kontoor, we believe that D&I is a key enabler to a culture that empowers us to work with passion and confidence, shaping our brand and future.
Our Kontoor D&I Commitment:
* Create a global workforce of high-performing teams that both unlocks our individual uniqueness and harnesses our collaborative talents.
* Ensure an equitable environment that attracts & promotes diverse workforce.
* Foster inclusivity, ensuring employees feel they can bring their whole selves to work.
Kontoor Brands, Inc. Diversity Vision Statement:
Kontoor Brands is committed to creating an inclusive environment that welcomes and values the differences among all of our associates, customers, suppliers and the communities in which we live and conduct business. The continued success and growth of Kontoor Brands is enhanced through initiatives that promote diversity throughout Kontoor Brands around the world.
Kontoor Brands is an equal employment opportunity/ affirmative action employer of minorities, females, protected veterans and the disabled. Kontoor Brands is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment, and treating our Kontoor Brands associates and Kontoor Brands applicants without discrimination on the basis of their race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, HIV/AIDS status, or any other legally protected factor.
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