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Assistant Sales Manager
- Are you interested in putting your sales experience to work for a great cause?
- Are you interested in doing good through reuse and recycling?
- Are you interested in environmental issues, home improvement, sustainable business, green building, and saving perfectly usable materials from the landfill?
- Do you enjoy talking and interacting with folks in the community?
- Then Community Forklift may be the place for you!!
We are seeking an energetic, outgoing and organized go getter for this new position. Prefer retail experience, previous supervisory experience, knowledge of home improvement and/or building materials.
General Requirements: Position responsibility for managing sales functions of the Community Forklift warehouse store; providing supervision for sales staff and customer relations; oversight and support to facilitate sales including consignment items; organization of check out areas with a high degree of attention to excellent customer service. Support for non-profit oriented team environment.
Specific duties include: schedule and supervise staff; oversight and supervision of sales related activity; development and implementation of procedures and systems to improve sales operations; support for pricing and customer concerns; provide product information to customers; conduct sales and keep records; ensure daily check out procedures are followed; special sales and implementation of store policy.
Position Requirements: Prefer knowledge of home improvement and/or building materials; very strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work with very diverse constituencies; evidence of successful experience supervising retail sales staff; good supervisory skills including a friendly demeanor with an emphasis on responsibility, follow through and leadership by example; computer skills; attention to detail and capacity to manage multiple responsibilities and tasks; energetic, self starting and creative in developing opportunities; excellent customer service skills; commitment to non-profit mission with an interest in reuse and environmental advocacy; ability to work in all seasons and weather; ability to lift materials on occasion; commitment to cooperative, team approach. Flexibility and patience with the demands of a start up business.
Other Qualifications: Available to work on Saturdays and one late day a week; flexibility in scheduling; looking for a new hire who can start fairly soon.
Application Procedure:
- Optional letter of application expressing interest in and evidence of experience related to the position.
- Resume
- Three references (prefer employment references that are unrelated to each other or to you)
Hours: Min. 24 hours with the potential for full time work.
Please email to Nancy@communityforklift.com, or fax to 301-985-5182 or mail to Nancy Meyer, Community Forklift, LLC, 4671 Tanglewood Drive, Hyattsville, MD 20781.
- Location: Hyattsville, MD
- Compensation: $13-$18 per hour,
- This is a part-time job with potential for full-time work
- This is at a non-profit organization.
- Phone calls about this job are ok.
Call: 301-985-5180. To leave information about possible material donations: use extension 2
Email: To send us information and pictures of your possible donations use: donations@communityforklift.com,
for everything else use: info@communityforklift.com.
Visit: 4671 Tanglewood Drive, Edmonston, MD 20781
Directions: 5 minutes from DC in Prince George's County
Hours: Wednesday & Thursday 10am - 8pm, and Friday, Saturday, & Sunday 9am - 6 pm
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