Sales Associate

**Sales Associate - Part-time - Dartmouth, NS**:
**Big Erics is **celebrating 75 years in business****

As a proudly family-owned and female lead company, Big Erics employs a diverse workforce throughout the Atlantic Region while working to serve customer needs across North America. With commercial/retail locations in Halifax and St. John's, and sales reps throughout the Atlantic region, our experienced team is committed to providing quality products, value-added services, and the latest innovations to support our customers' success. We are a leader in end-to-end product and service-based solutions spanning food preparation and service, food safety, facilities maintenance, cleaning, and sanitation.

Big Erics is proud to be a leading distributor of both commercial and residential supplies, equipment, small wares, and industrial chemicals for the food service, janitorial, sanitation, confectionary, manufacturing, and discerning residential sectors in Atlantic Canada.

**What makes Big Erics a great place to work'**:
**Our Employees and our Customers**

Reporting to the Retail Manager - Atlantic, the part-time Sales Associate can look forward to:

- Dedicated training and on-the-job resources to enhance your development
- Employee discounts to enjoy our amazing products
- Associate and family assistance program to support wellness
- On-site parking
- A competitive hourly wage

With our continuous evolution, we are currently looking for a permanent **part-time** **Sales Associate** in our Dartmouth Retail Store at 171 John Savage Ave, Dartmouth. Our retail store is currently open Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm and the hours for this part-time position would be 24 to 32 hours approximately. There may be options for additional hours at various times during the year.

What you’ll be doing:

- Creating a welcoming environment by greeting all customers as they walk through the doors
- Providing walk-in or call-in customers with detailed product, pricing information, and may include a demonstration of the product
- Driving sales through the engagement of customers, suggestive selling, and sharing product knowledge
- Providing outstanding customer service and handling the processing of payments for purchases
- Maintaining consistent merchandise of the products in store as per the planogram
- Maintaining store to Big Erics expectations (displays, stocking, dusting, price tags)
- Assisting with special customer orders, finding codes and prices for products
- Assisting with inventory rotation and daily cycle counting
- Monitoring open orders to ensure customer expectations are met
- Keeping knowledge up to date on all collections, product information, promotions, and programs always

If you offer exceptional customer service and guide a customer by providing detailed product and pricing information in a professional, attentive, and courteous manner, please join our team.

**Requirements**:

- Must have retail sales experience, ideally at least 2 years of retail sales
- High school diploma or GED
- Flexible availabilities Monday to Friday between the hours of 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
- Enthusiastic, friendly, and energetic with a genuine desire to provide outstanding service
- Proficient in verbal and written English language
- Maintain composure while dealing with multiple tasks, being attentive to customers, and remaining flexible to the needs of the business
- Initiative to see what needs to be done and act on the tasks
- Knowledge of SAP would be an asset
- Product knowledge of restaurant/baking/cooking equipment, and janitorial/cleaning products would be an asset
- Adhere to all the Health & Safety procedures
- Must be able to pass a pre-employment background check and provide proof of full vaccination

We thank all applicants, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.