Bookseller 40 - 90 %
Transa Backpacking AG
Zürich
Key information
- Publication date:30 June 2025
- Workload:40 – 90%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Place of work:Zürich
Job summary
Transa's Books Team in Zürich is seeking a new Bookseller! Join us for an exciting opportunity to share your passion for outdoor literature.
Tasks
- Advise customers on travel books and maps for their adventures.
- Curate an extensive selection of travel literature for the store.
- Maintain the sales area and assist in inventory management.
Skills
- Completed training as a bookseller or retail specialist with experience.
- Strong affinity for travel guides, maps, and literature.
- Excellent verbal and written German communication skills.
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YOUR SPECIALTY AS A BOOKSELLER
- Advising our customers on books and maps for their travel adventures. Your thing.
- Our extensive travel literature range. Your home.
- Sharing knowledge, joy, and good mood. Absolutely!
- Observing trends and integrating them into assortment design. Yes, please!
- Co-creating and maintaining the sales area - that’s part of it too.
- Assisting with the flow of goods and ordering (ordering, returning, researching). Of course.
- Ensuring exchange between Transa and Orell Füssli. Important.
THIS IS YOU
- Completed training as a bookseller or retail specialist. A few years under your belt.
- High affinity for travel guides, maps, and travel literature. That’s needed.
- An open ear for our customers in Zurich. Absolutely.
- Available flexibly, even on Saturdays. Yes!
- Your environment describes you as service-oriented, independent, and flexible. Definitely.
- Very good German skills, both spoken and written. No problem.
- Like being outdoors? That’s you.
YOUR BENEFITS
- A shared spirit of outdoor enthusiasts that can move mountains
- Shopping discounts for the Transa and Orell Füssli range
- A centrally located workplace right at the main station in Zurich
- Individual as well as branch and cross-departmental development opportunities
- And much more
#outbutright
Then we look forward to your online application. Note regarding the application: The employment for this position is through Orell Füssli Thalia AG. The application will be forwarded to Orell Füssli for selection.
THIS IS US
Transa Backpacking AG has been the competence center for high-quality travel and outdoor equipment for over 45 years. The motto «Out. But right.» is lived by around 500 employees. We are organized in circles and use the patterns of Sociocracy 3.0 - this allows employees to be deployed according to their abilities. In the branches Zurich, Basel, Bern, Lausanne, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Vevey, and Winterthur, the two outlet branches, as well as the station business Yosemite in Zermatt, there are over 42,000 products from around 550 brands. Should products ever get damaged, we take care of it in the repair workshop in Zurich Altstetten.MORE INFORMATION
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Anita Negele (HR Consultant Orell Füssli) at +41 58 100 70 56.We would like to fill this vacancy as a part-time bookseller without support from personnel service providers.
