Sales Associate

**Sales Associate - Limited Term**

**Tracking Code**:req1690

**Faculty/Department**: Office of VP, Administration

**Number of Positions**:3

**Appointment Type**: Limited Term

**Hours of Work**: 24 hours per week

**Hourly Rate**:$19.23/h

**Posting Date**:July 31, 2025

**Closing Date**: August 14, 2025 (7:00 pm EST)

**Responsibilities/accountabilities**:

- Create a welcoming environment for customers encouraging foot traffic in the store, or at pop up locations
- Assist customers with purchases, identify correct textbooks and course materials, make product recommendations, and address general inquiries in a friendly and professional manner
- Operate the cash register, process transactions accurately, and handle returns or exchanges in accordance with store policies
- Stock shelves, merchandise displays, and ensure the store is clean, organized, and well-maintained
- Keep storage areas tidy and organized
- Physically relocate stock to/from storage area and store or pop-up location safely
- Receive and inspect inventory shipments; report any shortages, damages, or discrepancies
- Help monitor inventory levels and assist in tracking sales activity.
Support promotional efforts, seasonal sales, and campus events, including pop-up shops
- Assist with merchandise handling, setup, and teardown at pop-up shops or satellite locations
- Assist in the picking, packaging and shipping of online orders.
Maintain up-to-date knowledge of store policies, current promotions, and product offerings
- Perform other tasks and responsibilities as assigned by the store manager.
Provide general clerical support, including data entry, filing, scanning, and responding to routine inquiries
- Collaborate with the Ancillary Services team on ad hoc projects and assignments as directed

**Qualifications**:

- Previous retail or customer service experience is an asset.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Reliable, punctual, and able to work independently or as part of a team.
- Comfortable handling cash and using point-of-sale systems (training provided).
- Ability to lift boxes up to 10 kilgrams and perform light physical tasks (e.g., standing, restocking, climbing a step ladder).
- Flexible availability, including peak periods such as office hours, evenings, weekends and labour-day weekend.

**Work Conditions**:

- This is an on-call, as-needed role with variable hours (up to 24 per week)
- Work may include early mornings, evenings, or weekends depending on campus store needs and event schedules
- Some physical activity (e.g., lifting, standing for extended periods) may be required
- This is an in-person role that requires the incumbent to be physically on-campus for 100% of their scheduled working hours
- Verification of Academic credentials may be required

**Preferred Experience**:

- 1 year experience is preferred in a retail setting

**How to Apply**:
Ontario Tech University respects people's different needs and therefore will take all reasonable steps to ensure accommodation for applicants where appropriate. The University is also committed to ensuring that confidentiality is maintained throughout all aspects of the recruitment cycle.

If you require accommodation, please contact Julie Day, Health and Disability Management Specialist. For more information about the universities policies for accommodating employees with disabilities please review the university’s Accessibility Policy.

The university acknowledges the lands and people of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation which is covered under the Williams Treaties. We are situated on the Traditional Territory of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation which includes Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi.

**Job Location**:Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

**Expected Start Date**:7/31/2025

**Expected End Date**:3/31/2026