POSITION SUMMARY
Blue Moon Estate Sales - Colorado Springs is hiring a part-time Assistant Estate Sale Manager to support the planning, preparation, staging, operation, and closeout of residential estate sales throughout the Colorado Springs territory. This hands-on leadership role supports ownership and/or the Sale Manager by helping coordinate estate sale teams, organize and stage household contents, support pricing, manage customer flow, and ensure each sale is conducted professionally and respectfully.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Sale Preparation & Setup
- Assist with walkthrough preparation, sale planning, and operational setup.
- Help organize household contents by category, room, value, and buyer appeal.
- Support staging of furniture, decor, kitchenware, clothing, tools, collectibles, books, art, outdoor items, and general household goods.
- Coordinate setup of tables, racks, signage, checkout areas, hold areas, and customer flow paths.
- Identify items requiring special handling, research, security, or owner confirmation.
- Ensure client-designated “do not sell” items are separated, marked, or removed from sale areas.
- Maintain a clean, organized, and professional sale environment.
- Assist associates when required or called upon, with assigned tasks.
Pricing & Inventory Support
- Assist with pricing household items according to company guidance and estate sale standards.
- Help identify common value categories including furniture, decor, tools, kitchenware, clothing, garage items, collectibles, and outdoor equipment.
- Support basic research for higher-value or specialty items when needed.
- Group, bag, label, or organize small items for sale.
- Ensure pricing labels are visible, consistent, and properly placed.
- Alert management to potentially high-value, restricted, fragile, unsafe, or unusual items.
Team Leadership
- Assist in directing part-time Estate Sale Associates during setup and sale days.
- Help assign workers to interior, checkout, hold table, garage, outdoor, staging, and customer support areas.
- Monitor team productivity and provide clear, respectful direction.
- Help ensure team members arrive on time, take required breaks, and follow company procedures.
- Support training of new workers on staging standards, customer service, pricing support, checkout support, and sale-day expectations.
- Maintain a professional and respectful work environment.
Sale-Day Operations
- Assist with opening and closing procedures.
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- Support customer entry, shopping flow, checkout flow, hold table activity, and general sale organization.
- Help manage customer questions and escalate issues to ownership or the Sale Manager when needed.
- Assist with cash register or point-of-sale support when assigned.
- Monitor sale areas for organization, safety, item movement, and customer assistance needs.
- Support markdowns, final-day discounting, and sale-day adjustments according to management direction.
- Help maintain a calm, professional, and welcoming sale environment.
Client & Customer Interaction
- Represent Blue Moon Estate Sales - Colorado Springs professionally with clients, family members, customers, neighbors, referral partners, and team members.
- Communicate clearly and respectfully in emotionally sensitive home-transition situations.
- Help protect client property and maintain confidentiality regarding client homes, personal items, and circumstances.
- Escalate client concerns, family issues, pricing disputes, or unusual requests to ownership or the Sale Manager.
- Support a positive customer experience that encourages repeat shoppers and local community trust.
Safety, Access & Compliance
- Help identify unsafe areas, trip hazards, blocked exits, unstable items, restricted areas, or other operational risks.
- Support safe item placement and customer traffic flow.
- Ensure workers use care when handling fragile, heavy, sharp, valuable, or unusual items.
- Follow company procedures for restricted or special categories, including firearms, alcohol, medical items, hazardous materials, titled vehicles, or items requiring owner confirmation.
- Help ensure excluded areas, private areas, and client-kept items remain protected.
Closeout & Post-Sale Support
- Assist with final-day organization, item consolidation, and sale wrap-up.
- Help identify remaining items for client decision, donation, disposal, or referral coordination.
- Support post-sale notes, issue documentation, supply collection, signage collection, and basic cleanup.
- Assist with internal feedback after each sale to improve future staging, pricing, staffing, and customer flow.
SCHEDULE
This is a part-time, event-based leadership position. Hours vary depending on scheduled estate sales, sale size, setup requirements, and client needs. Estate sales are typically held on Fridays and Saturdays, with some larger sales beginning on Thursdays. Setup, staging, organizing, and pricing are commonly performed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
- Tuesday: staging, sorting, organizing, pricing, and team direction.
- Wednesday: continued staging, pricing, display setup, sale preparation, and team coordination.
- Thursday: sale day for larger sales, final setup, or preview preparation.
- Friday: primary sale day.
- Saturday: primary sale day, final sale support, and closeout assistance.
Friday and Saturday availability is mandatory, as these are the primary estate sale operating days. Candidates must be able to reliably support weekend sale activity. Schedule flexibility for weekday setup and staging is also strongly preferred.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Prior experience in retail, estate sales, resale, consignment, antiques, customer service, home organization, moving, staging, operations, or team leadership preferred.
- Ability to lead small teams in a respectful, practical, and organized manner.
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- Strong customer-service and communication skills.
- Comfortable working in private homes and residential environments.
- Ability to follow direction from ownership or the Sale Manager and work independently once tasks are assigned.
- Comfortable using a cell phone for communication and clock-in/clock-out.
- Comfortable learning or using a cash register, tablet, or point-of-sale system.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to keep sale areas organized.
- Ability to handle emotionally sensitive situations with professionalism.
- Must arrive 15 minutes before scheduled shift start time.
- Must be dependable, punctual, honest, and professional.
PREFERRED SKILLS
- Knowledge of household goods, furniture, kitchenware, clothing, decor, tools, collectibles, antiques, art, outdoor items, or garage contents.
- Experience supervising part-time workers or event-based teams.
- Retail merchandising or visual staging experience.
- Basic pricing or resale knowledge.
- Comfort with estate sale environments, moving/downsizing situations, or client home transitions.
- Ability to identify items that may require research or special handling.
Veteran, retired military, military spouse, retiree, and senior workforce candidates are encouraged to apply; all qualified candidates are welcome.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Stand, walk, bend, reach, sort, stage, and organize items throughout the shift.
- Work in homes, garages, basements, sheds, driveways, patios, and outdoor areas.
- Lift and carry household items up to 40 pounds as needed.
- Assist with moving tables, supplies, signs, and light display equipment.
- Work around household dust, storage areas, pets, odors, stairs, uneven surfaces, garages, and changing indoor/outdoor conditions.
- Help maintain safe pathways and organized sale areas.
COMPANY PROVIDED ITEMS
Blue Moon Estate Sales - Colorado Springs will provide required uniforms or branded work attire. The Assistant Estate Sale Manager is expected to wear the provided uniform or approved branded attire during setup days, sale days, and other client-facing work assignments unless otherwise directed by management.
COMPENSATION & TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT
This is a part-time hourly leadership position. Compensation will be discussed during the recruiting and interview process based on experience, availability, leadership capability, and assigned responsibilities.
For estate sale locations requiring significant travel, additional fuel or mileage support may be provided. Team members who are required to travel more than 25 miles one way to an assigned estate sale location may be eligible for travel reimbursement. Reimbursement may be provided in the form of a gas card, mileage reimbursement, or an approved expense report. When mileage reimbursement is used, it will generally be based on the applicable federal mileage reimbursement rate in effect at the time of travel, subject to company approval and documentation requirements.
IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE
The ideal Assistant Estate Sale Manager is organized, calm under pressure, hands-on, dependable, and comfortable leading others in a residential estate sale environment. This position may be especially well suited for retired veterans, military-connected candidates, retirees, former retail supervisors, former operations supervisors, home organizers, staging professionals, or individuals with strong practical leadership experience. All qualified candidates are welcome to apply.
- Reliable and punctual.
- Organized and detail-oriented.
- Comfortable giving direction to a small team.
- Customer-service focused.
- Respectful of client homes and personal belongings.
- Able to work with sensitivity during family transitions.
- Practical, flexible, and solution-oriented.
- Comfortable with both interior staging and garage/outdoor sale areas.
- Able to support both sale preparation and sale-day execution.
- Professional in appearance, communication, and conduct.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT
Blue Moon Estate Sales - Colorado Springs, operated by Saunders Estate Services, LLC, is an equal opportunity employer. Work assignments are based on experience, skills, physical capability, availability, sale requirements, leadership ability, and best fit for the work being performed. We do not discriminate based on sex, gender, age, race, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, military status, or any other protected status.
Pay: From $20.00 per hour
Experience:
- Leadership: 3 years (Required)
Shift availability:
Work Location: In person
