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Retail Sales Specialist - Cameras

Portland, OROnsiteFull TimeEntry-level (exp-based)Posted 16 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • sales
  • customer service
  • product demonstrations
  • training
  • promotional initiatives
  • merchandising

Nice to have

  • specialist
  • premium technology
  • luxury technology
  • complex technology solutions
  • consumer electronics

Role summary

Best Buy is seeking a Retail Sales Specialist for their cameras department. This role involves assisting customers in-store, over the phone, and via online chat to achieve sales targets. The specialist will maintain a high level of product knowledge, coach other employees, and ensure the department's merchandising is up to standard. The position requires teamwork and a passion for helping customers capture memories through technology. Prior experience with consumer electronics or complex technology solutions is preferred.

Job Description

As a Retail Sales Specialist in our cameras department, you’ll greet customers, ask questions and provide product demonstrations as you sell complete solutions. You’ll achieve individual and department goals by reaching revenue, margin, solution and operational targets. We’ll give you the training needed to become an expert on cameras that help customers capture lifelong memories.

What you’ll do
  • Help customers in-store, over the phone and via online chat
  • Achieves team and individual goals while providing an excellent customer shopping experience
  • Maintain a high level of knowledge through ongoing learning and certifications, coach other sales floor employees on new vendor technology and services
  • Use available tools to stay current on promotional initiatives and help achieve profitable growth through critical business drive times
  • Generate future opportunities by discovering the deeper needs of our customers
  • Maintain the cameras department’s merchandising and readiness to serve customers
Basic qualifications
  • Must be at least 18 years old
  • Ability to work successfully as part of a team
Preferred qualifications
  • Prior experience serving as a specialist in premium, luxury or complex technology solutions
  • 1 year of experience working with consumer electronics
What’s in it for you

We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being and provide support as you need it, especially at key moments in your life.

Our benefits include:
  • Competitive pay
  • Great employee discount
  • Financial savings and retirement resources
  • Support for your physical and mental well-being
Best Buy provides different types of leaves of absence (LOA) and potential pay sources to employees based on eligibility. The length of your LOA depends on your situation, where you live, your full-time or part-time employment status, and federal and state regulations. Intermittent or reduced-schedule leave is also available for certain medical or family care leaves. Paid time off (vacation or PTO) is offered to full-time and part-time employees based on work location, employment status, salary or hourly status (exempt/non-exempt), and years of continued or bridged service.

Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans, including eligibility, please refer to our Incentive Programs Summary.

For more information about benefits, LOA and paid time off, please refer to our Benefits Guide.

About us

As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™

Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.

Application deadline: Minimum of 5 days from the posting date. You can find that date above the job title at the top of the page.
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