Author: Tyler Woodruff

Floor Sales Associate
My Sewing Room Inc. is looking for a charismatic sales person who is ready to work with all the latest Sewing Machines, fabric, and notions. Get your needle ready to sew a patchwork of possibilities when you work at Canada’s largest independent sewing and quilting shop.
Description
As a floor sales associate you will be working alongside floor staff to provide machine demos and close machine sales, cut fabric, be a cashier, and help customers. Part of your duties will be following up on leads, taking questions about machines or fabric, and participating in training for the products we sell.

This position will have a focus on machines because they make up approximately 60% of our annual sales. This job does not provide commission or sales targets. This is a no sales pressure environment.

Are you interested in a stable job, learning more about a hugely successful industry of creatives, and encouraging local business?

This position is 37.5 to 40 hours a week, Tuesday through Saturday. Compensation is minimum wage to start. There is room to take on further duties and grow within the store.
Skills and Abilities

· Strong communication skills.

· Project Management

· Creativity

· Customer service

· Motivation

· Organization

Qualifications
· A tenaciously flexible mindset, ready to work towards new ideas.

· Experience with sewing machines not required.

· Willingness to learn the ins and outs of multiple types of machines, accessories, and notions.

· Able to lift up to 25kg.

· Ability to stand or sit for long periods of time.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: From $15.00 per hour

Flexible Language Requirement:

• French not required

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Every Weekend
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

• Overtime pay

Experience:

• sales: 1 year (preferred)
• customer service: 1 year (preferred)

Bookkeeper/ Administration

Description

My Sewing Room INC is Canada’s largest independent sewing and quilting shop. We are looking for a new Bookkeeper/Admin as ours steps away to deal with their health. This position is responsible for behind the behind the scene force that keeps everything running smoothly. A small business is a great way to start your career and build skills, or a place you can settle into and find your home among the bolts of fabric and spools of thread.

Full time 37.5 hour week. Pay is negotiable.

Duties and Responsibilities

Basic accounting for the store; including but not limited to:

· Entering daily receipts.

· Monthly reconciliation of all credit/cash/vendor accounts.

· Inventory management and other costing.

· Preparation and analysis of monthly reporting to be provided to ownership.

· Accounts payable duties.

· Accounts receivable duties.

Sorting and filing of paperwork.

Management and follow up of ongoing store projects, encouraging communication between stakeholders.

Taking care of general administration by ordering office supplies, cleaning supplies, and picking up mail.

Other duties as assigned based on store needs.

There is also a dog in the office, your duties will also be helping bring the dog out and refilling his water bowl.

The right person for this job will be someone who wants to work with the owner and learn all about the sewing industry.

Skills and Abilities

Strong Communication Skills

Project Management

Creativity

Customer Service

Self-Motivation

Organization

Flexibility

Qualifications

Prior bookkeeping knowledge is essential.

Management experience is a benefit.

Job Types: Permanent, Full-time

Salary: From $40,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• On-site parking
• Store discount

Flexible Language Requirement:

• French not required

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Calgary, AB: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• QuickBooks: 1 year (preferred)
• Bookkeeping: 1 year (preferred)

Application deadline: 2022-09-01
Expected start date: 2022-09-05

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Social Media and Design Assistant
My Sewing Room Inc. is looking for a self-starter with social media skills who is ready to dive into the world of quilting and sewing. Get your needle ready to sew a patchwork of possibilities when you work at Canada’s largest independent sewing and quilting shop.
Description
As the social media and design assistant, your day will involve assisting the owner and managers with monitoring our social media, creating posts and answering any questions. This position will work alongside other teams to market both the newest products, and items that could use a boost. You will be expected to learn about the business, colour coordination, staging pictures, video creation, and more. This is a great position for someone with a creative background.

Are you interested in a stable job, learning more about a hugely successful industry of creatives, and encouraging local business? Join our small team and bring fresh ideas to marketing an age-old industry while learning the ins and outs of running a local business.

This position is 37.5 to 40 hours a week, Monday to Friday with occasional weekends for events. Compensation is minimum wage during probation.
Duties and Responsibilities
· You will be trained on the sales floor because sometimes you might be asked to help out on the floor during events, either processing payments or locating product. You will also be helping with an event outside of the store, like a quilt show. We have so many products that you need to have a working knowledge of the store.

· Curating our social media content on Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram among others. (This will involve making sure everything is properly promoted and that customers are being engaged).

· Cross-tag product demoed online so that customers can find the product on our site easily and quickly.

· Pre-event and class preparation. Prepared list of “products featured in today’s event” with links to shop for all.

· Post event analysis. (Including showing student and customer makes online).

· Answering customer correspondence, through email or social media.

· Engage with customers in store by taking pictures of their projects they want to show, or when they buy a new sewing machine.

· Communicate owner and managements desires to the appropriate departments.

· As you grow in this position, we can add and further define your duties and responsibilities.
Skills and Abilities

· Strong communication skills.

· Project Management

· Creativity

· Content Curation

· Customer service

· Marketing

· Motivation

· Organization

Qualifications
· A tenaciously flexible mindset, ready to work towards new ideas.

· Experience with sewing machines not required.

· Willingness to learn the ins and outs of multiple types of machines, accessories, and notions.

· Understanding of Social Media and digital communication (Including Facebook, TikTok, Instagram).

· Able to lift up to 25kg.

· Ability to stand or sit for long periods of time.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: From $15.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Store discount

Flexible Language Requirement:

• French not required

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Overtime pay

Education:

• Secondary School (preferred)

Experience:

• public relations: 1 year (preferred)
• Retail: 1 year (preferred)

Expected start date: 2022-09-01

My Sewing Room INC is Canada’s largest independent sewing and quilting shop. We are looking for new teachers to bring their sewing experiences and knowledge into our classroom!

This position is responsible for coming up with class ideas, creating samples, working alongside our team to create advertisements and, of course, teaching! Classes are both in-person and online. We have a strong team in place to support a new teacher in everything they are doing. From our education team helping with set up, to our social media and IT team helping you film!

Wage to be discussed. Please forward your resume and cover letter to Chelsea at education@mysewingroom.ca.

We look forward to meeting you!