Sewing Instructor/Educator

American StaffCorp Job Board

Tulsa, OK

Vision , Medical , Dental , Paid Time Off , Life Insurance , Retirement
Full-Time

Job Description

The Retail Sewing Instructor position is responsible for teaching Instructional Guide Classes for products sold, preparing and presenting our monthly club, and teaching special events for both adults and students. This position is also responsible for selling a variety of sewing machines, and related products, and driving sales through excellent customer service. This is a full-time position, 40 hours a week including Saturdays.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

· Demonstrates a positive attitude and a willingness to finding a way to say “Yes”.

· Teach guests sewing machine and related product knowledge to use their products to the fullest capability, using class outlines.

· Teach monthly club sessions showing guests both new and current productions and specialty techniques.

· Greets guest on sales floor and determines make, type, and quality of merchandise desired.

· Displays merchandise, suggests selections that meet guests’ needs, and emphasizes selling points of article such as quality and utility.

· Demonstrates use and explains features of sewing machines and related products; answers guests’ questions concerning price and use of merchandise.

· Processes sales invoices using Point of Sales System.

· Exhibits sales skills required to achieve personal and store goals; demonstrate persistence, overcome obstacle; recognize and act on opportunities to create sales.

· Maintains knowledge of current sales and promotions, policies regarding payment and exchanges, and security practices.

· Follows up with guests to assure satisfaction, respond to inquiries, solicit further sales & solve or refer problems.

· Maintain records related to sales and quotes.

· Examines defective item returned by guest to determine if refund or replacement should be made.

· Uses computer database to research availability of merchandise.

· Participates in Physical Inventory.

· Sells service contracts for machines sold.

· Wraps merchandise for guest or arranges for delivery.

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