Team Member

Join our SWEET Team! Do you want to be a kid in a candy store every day at work? Do you enjoy baking, being creative in decorating and merchandising candy, AND serving guests with a winning team? Then this is the job for you! 

River Street Sweets is adding to the family at our King Street, Charleston location! If you have a winning attitude and like making people smile - we are the team for you! We are looking for team members that want to work in a positive environment with a successful company culture! Flexible schedule with day, night, weekday, and weekend options. 

In this position, you have the opportunity to make a competitive hourly rate plus great tips. Tips are not guaranteed and are given at the sole discretion of our guests and distributed weekly as a shared pool among all team members based on hours worked that week. We also offer career growth potential in the form of a salaried Assistant Manager position that may be available in the future for high-performance candidates.

Duties include but not limited to: 

• Review and implement the guidelines provided in the Employee handbook and Operations Manual
• Baking, merchandising, decorating candy for optimal guest experience
• Welcoming and engaging with customers as they enter the store 
• Assessing customers’ needs and suggesting solutions accordingly
• Working with cash registers and processing payments 
• Making candy per given instructions, recipes, and processes
• Setting and attaining sales goals for the store
• Giving customers advice about sales and promotions, upselling to increase sales
• Cleaning and restocking the store throughout the day, before opening and after closing
• Ability to lift heavy merchandise, walk and stand for long hours 

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Must be able to use touch-sensitive POS System 
• Able to lift minimum of 50 lbs. 
• Must be able to take direction and deliver on responsibilities for effective and efficient operations 
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment with a learning and growth mindset

The mission of River Street Sweets is: “We at River Street Sweets, are in the business of enriching the lives of our guests, by providing Gourmet Southern Candies served with good old-fashioned hospitality in a clean, fun environment.” Every member of our team at River Street Sweets is known as a Host or Hostess, instead of an employee. We take pride in our ability to serve our Guests in the same manner as Hosts or Hostesses would serve someone in their own home. At River Street Sweets, we take pride in our purpose and we always treat our Guests with southern hospitality – the River Street Sweets way.

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