Design Center Custom Framing Sales Associate

Your Role...: p style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"By exhibiting exceptional teamwork, boundless curiosity, and the utmost care, the strongDesign Center Associate/strong will assist their team to fulfil Blick’s commitment to our customers, the Arts, and our local communities. The Design Center Associate will do this by acting as a representative of our company to the public handling all customer contact in a friendly, courteous and professional manner. The Design Center Associate is responsible for driving revenue by providing excellent customer service, knowledge of Fine Art Printing, Archival Framing and an eye for design. In addition the associate is to assist in maintaining a neat, clean, organized workshop, design counter, and sales floor. Responsibilities include,/span/pullispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Consistently demonstrate superior customer service through product knowledge, design skills and other talent that will exceed customer expectations./span/lilispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Complete and utilizes the Blick training program, consistently signs up new preferred customers and is able to special order items for customers./span/lilispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Have a positive attitude, be willing to learn, problem solve and make decisions in regards to customer satisfaction./span/lilispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Ensure adherence to all company policies/procedures as well as loss prevention guidelines./span/lilispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Has the ability to process customer transactions as well as layaways accurately and in a timely manner./span/lilispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Assist in merchandising of the store and Design Center. When not assisting customers execute the production log, maintain the sales floor, restock inventory, and keep the sales floor neat and clean./span/lilispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Follow direction, prioritize and meet deadlines, and multitask./span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"strongGeneral Requirements:/strong/span/pullispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Ability to work both independently and in a team environment./span/lilispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Excellent communication skills./span/lilispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Availability to work flexible schedules including day/evening shifts, weekends and holidays as required by the needs of the business./span/lilispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Regular attendance in accordance with the retail attendance policy./span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"strongTechnical Requirements:/strong/span/pullispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Knowledge of custom framing design, ability to measure art and frame components professionally, knowledge of appropriate archival materials and how/when to use them./span/lilispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Knowledge of custom framing design, cutting glass, cutting mats, mounting, fitting, ability to determine type of hangers, stretching canvas and fabric/span/lilispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Understanding of Photoshop in order to open customer files and complete printing orders according to customer specs/span/lilispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"General computer skills including but not limited to word, excel, photoshopCS4, Lifesaver (or other estimating program), the Wizard (or other automatic mat cutter) and the ability to hand cut mats./span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"strongCompetencies:/strong/span/pullispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Elevates Service Standards/span/lilispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Leadership/span/lilispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Champions Core Values/span/lilispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"People/span/lilispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Operations/span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"strongSupervisory Responsibility:/strong/span/pullispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"This position has no supervisory responsibilities./span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"strongPhysical Demands:/strong/span/pullispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Must be able to lift and carry 50 pounds while using the appropriate lifting techniques and following all safety rules./span/lilispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Prolonged walking, standing, and climbing ladders./span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"strongTravel:/strong/span/pullispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Minimal travel in the local area may be required./span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"strongQualifications:/strong/span/pullispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"High School Graduate or equivalent./span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"strongOther Duties:/strong/span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the associate for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice./span/pp style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Pay Rate:/span/pp style="margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt;"The pay range below is provided in compliance with state/city specific laws. This pay range applies to this location. Pay ranges may be different in other locations./pul style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;"$18.00 - $18.50 per hour + Sales Incentives/span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: helvetica;"strongspan style="font-size: 12pt;"Benefits Include:/span/strong/span/pullispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"401K Profit Sharing Plan/span/lilispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Incentive Bonus Plansbr //span/lilispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Paid Time Offbr //span/lilispan style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Employee Discount/span/li/ul Who we are...: p style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"Founded in 1911, Blick Art Materials is in its third generation of family ownership, and is the largest and oldest provider of art supplies in the United States./span/p Our Mission...: p style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"At Blick Art Materials, our family owners and dedicated staff support the Visual Art Community by providing the widest selection of art supplies at the lowest prices. With extraordinary service and integrity, we strive to provide artists, educators, students, and our employees with the tools, assistance, and training they need to grow, innovate, and reach their creative potential./span/p