Store Associate

NEW MINAS, NS

PART-TIME STORE ASSOCIATE, 6-MONTH CONTRACT

A Little Bit About Us

Maritime Beauty was founded in 1966 as a full-service professional beauty supply distributor for the Maritime Provinces. Our organization has seen extraordinary growth over the years and is proud to be an industry leader in the Maritimes representing numerous top professional lines. We currently have a store network of 17 locations in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island.

The ability of Maritime Beauty to remain competitive and successful in today's world is directly attributable to our employees. We value our employees and strive to offer an environment of challenge, continued growth and learning opportunities.

Career Opportunity

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Store Associate to join our New Minas Store Team. Our ideal candidate has a positive & collaborative 'can-do' attitude with a strong desire to help clients and grow store sales. If you love interacting with clients and are passionate about the beauty industry, this is the position for you Those looking for a role where they can contribute and learn in equal measure will fit in well.

Responsibilities

• Proactively make each client's visit a delightful and memorable customer service experience
• Educate clients through consultative selling, promoting new products and knowledge of promotions
• Proactively self-educate on product knowledge of brands and categories, features and benefits through PK books, websites and use of store samples and testers.
• Participate in training sessions to obtain product knowledge, manufacturer information, selling skills, customer service experience skills.
• Use sales techniques such as suggestive selling to secure maximum sales
• Follow merchandising standards and maintain assigned sections and signage
• Complete transactions accurately and efficiently
• Perform opening and closing duties
• Participate in upsell and spiff programs by actively suggestive selling to clients to achieve store and individual sales goals
• Work effectively as a team, use and learn from each other's knowledge and support your co-workers
• Demonstrate our company culture and values
• Perform other duties as required

Qualifications & Core Competencies

• High School diploma or General Educational Development (GED) certificate
• Hair, Esthetic, or other industry license is an asset
• 1 year + of retail sales experience
• 1 year + of customer service experience
• Desire to consistently deliver superior customer service
• Strong technical aptitude
• Positive and self-motivated
• Thrive in a team setting and able to work independently

Additional

Location: 8934 Commercial Street, Unit FS17, New Minas, B4N3E1

Job Type: Part-time position. Current business need (approximately 15-25 hours per week). 6-month contract ending on or around April 30th, 2026.

Schedule/Store Hours: Must be available to work weekdays & weekends as needed.

Current Store Hours

Monday - Friday

8:30am - 5:00pm

Saturday

8:30am - 4:00pm

Sunday

12:00pm - 4:00pm

Compensation: We're proud to offer a fair, competitive, and equitable process to determining your hourly wage that is based on your skills, knowledge, experience, and internal equity. You can rest assured that we will present you our best offer. In addition, you will be eligible for a $200 bonus upon successful completion of the contract.

Benefits

• Team-building sessions
• Employee discount
• Performance and Service Recognition programs
• Corporate Charitable Donation program
• Employee Fitness program
• Personal, Professional, and Career Development programs
• Maternity Leave top-up
• Life Insurance
• Employee Recruitment Referral program
• Bonus program
• and more

We're actively seeking candidates for our Store Associate position, and keen to see your application. Candidates who believe they possess an equivalent combination of experience, training, and personal attributes are encouraged to apply. If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact our HR department at

While we thank all candidates for their interest, only those being considered will be contacted.

Maritime Beauty Supply is an equal opportunity employer.

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