Timberland: Sales Associate

**Sales Associate**

As a Sales Associate you will be the face of the brand to our retail customers and will be responsible for creating best-in-class customer experience in the store. As a Sales Associate, you will actively engage with a diverse and often large group of people, using your product, brand, activity and community knowledge to ensure each customer has a memorable positive experience. You will serve as part of a team, ensuring that customer engagement is the top priority, while also assisting in the daily visual and operational maintenance of the store.

**Timberland, a VF Company**

Founded in 1973, Timberland® is a global outdoor lifestyle brand based in Stratham, New Hampshire, with international headquarters in Switzerland and Hong Kong. Best known for its original yellow boot designed for the harsh elements of New England, Timberland today offers a full range of footwear, apparel and accessories for people who value purposeful style and share the brand’s passion for enjoying - and protecting - nature.

At the heart of the Timberland brand is the core belief that a greener future is a better future. This comes to life through a decades-long commitment to make products responsibly, protect the outdoors, and strengthen communities around the world.

By joining Timberland, you will serve as a purpose-led, performance driven, brand ambassador. You will build productive relationships by providing products to “adventurous doers” allowing them to “step outside and move the world forward.” You will also have the opportunity, tools, and environment to more explore the world around you and make meaningful, lasting connections.

**How You Will Make a Difference**
- Responsibilities_
- Demonstrate a customer first mindset by modeling selling behaviors with a passion for the brand, customer, and the product.
- Aware of and accountable to store and individual sales goals.
- Exemplifies an optimistic and energetic presence through team collaboration while building strong relationships with customers to maximize customer loyalty.
- Provide exceptional service while educating customers on our product, our Brand Purpose and community service involvement.
- Maintain a positive attitude and be flexible to the changing needs of the customer and the business.
- Ensures product is always available to the customer and represented in a compelling way that is consistent with visual guidelines, in addition to ensuring the store is recovered and customer ready each day.
- Adhere to policies and procedures, standards and practices, and company directives.
- Comply with company safety, security, and shrink avoidance policies and programs.
- Model behavior that respects the background, experience, and cultural differences of others, while upholding the integrity and values of the VF Corporation and the brand.
- Promotes an environment that encourages participation, creativity, and learning by sharing best practices and building on the ideas of others.

**What You Bring**
- Required_
- Ability to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business; will require weekends, evenings, and holidays
- Ability to work with a team to exceed sales results and meet business goals
- Ability to genuinely and comfortably engage with a diverse group of customers
- Excellent verbal and nonverbal communication skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to deliver a high level of customer service in a retail environment
- Preferred_
- Previous retail or service-oriented experience
- Physical_
- Operate office equipment and technology (i.e., computers, tablets, phones, copier, etc.)
- Standing required for entire work shift
- Bend, lift, open and move product up to 50 pounds as needed
- Use ladders for visual merchandising, light adjustments, and window banner placement

**Free To Be, Inclusion & Diversity**

As a purpose-led, performance driven company, we strive to foster a culture of belonging based on respect, connection, openness, and authenticity. We are committed to building and maintaining a workplace that celebrates the diversity of our associates, allowing them to bring their authentic selves to work every day.

**What’s In It for You**

**Our Parent Company, VF Corporation**

**We just have one question. Are you in?**

**Hiring Range**:
$13.44 CAD - $20.16 CAD per hour

**Minimum Start Rate**:
$18.20

**_ Please note, our hiring ranges are determined and built from market pay data. Although all positions have a hiring range based upon market data, this position has a minimum starting rate that is listed above. In determining the specific compensation for this position, we comply with all local, state, and federal laws. _**
- Pursuant to all applicable local Fair Chance Ordinance requirements, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, VF will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records._