The Opportunity
Our retail expansion in main markets starts with hiring not only the best leaders but also hiring a stellar team. As Sales Associate, you will embrace and promote the Ballard brand delivering an outstanding guest experience and performing operational responsibilities to increase sales and deliver an inspiring shopping experience in which our guest feels inspired and empowered to customize their space.
Your hiring location is Roswell, GA
Who We Are
Since 1982, Ballard Designs has offered a unique curation of home furnishings and décor from all periods and provenance. Its designers travel the world for inspiration, translating the latest trends in fashion, color, and style into finely crafted products not found anywhere else. Ballard Designs is part of the Cornerstone brands - four interactive, aspirational home and apparel lifestyle brands that deliver inspirations that help customers enjoy, enhance and celebrate life.
You will report to the Associate Store Manager
Your Impact
- Achieve sales following daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly goals for the store
- Help maintain a clean, organized, and easy-to-shop sales floor
- Deliver excellent guest service by promoting an environment that is helpful, knowledgeable, and efficient for guests and team members
- Provide guests with accurate and efficient service to educate them on the products and services available through Ballard Designs
What You Bring
- 2+ years of specialty retail sales experience
- Proficiency using Microsoft Word, Excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets), Outlook, Kronos, and POS systems and previous cash handling required
- Ability to lift and mobilize medium to large items, up to 50lbs
- Availability to work flexible schedule, including evenings, weekends, and holidays
Remote work is not permitted in NYC at this time.
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Our Total Rewards package includes benefits you’ll love such as competitive compensation, paid time off, an employee assistance program, parental leave, paid volunteer hours, and amazing company discounts! In our US market, you can also expect health care benefits starting on day 1, 401(k), and tuition reimbursement benefits.
QVC Group is committed to inclusion and belonging for all and ensuring that our workplace provides equal employment opportunities for all team members and candidates and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. As an equal opportunity employer, QVC Group is committed to a barrier-free employment process. If you need reasonable accommodations/support throughout, please contact us at [email protected] for assistance.
If provided, salary ranges are a general guideline only, and actual salaries will vary and are based on factors such as a candidate's qualifications, skills, experience, and geographic location as well as business and market conditions.
Skills Required
- 2+ years of specialty retail sales experience
- Proficiency using Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Kronos, and POS systems
- Ability to lift and mobilize medium to large items, up to 50lbs
- Availability to work flexible schedule, including evenings, weekends, and holidays
QVC Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about QVC Group and has not been reviewed or approved by QVC Group.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as broad, including medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, and company-paid life insurance and AD&D. Additional wellness supports like confidential counseling and condition-management programs are also part of the offering.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible work arrangements such as remote work, flextime, and compressed schedules are available in parts of the organization. Spending-account options like HSA and FSA are included within the benefits mix.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support includes access to a 401(k) plan with company matching, and some sources also reference a pension plan. Performance bonuses are also described as available for some employees.
QVC Group Insights
What We Do
Curated Experiences. Infinite Possibilities.® We believe in a Third Way to Shop® – beyond transactional ecommerce or traditional brick-and-mortar stores – for customers who crave engaging shopping experiences. We're a select group of diverse businesses that provide customers with curated collections of unique products, made personal and relevant by the power of storytelling. We combine the best of retail, media, and social to curate experiences, conversations, and communities for millions of highly discerning shoppers. We bring joy, inspiration, and humanity to shopping. We also curate large audiences, across our many platforms, for our thousands of brand vendors. Qurate Retail Group comprises seven leading retail brands – QVC®, HSN®, Zulily®, Ballard Designs®, Frontgate®, Garnet Hill®, and Grandin Road®. We reach approximately 218 million homes worldwide via 14 television networks and reach millions more via multiple streaming services, social pages, mobile apps, websites, print catalogs, and in-store destinations. We're a world leader in video commerce globally, among the top ecommerce retailers in North America (according to Digital Commerce 360), and a leader in mobile commerce and social commerce.
