Retail Assistant – Part Time

Job Description

Retail Assistant – Part Time Job Details

• Hours: 8 hours across 2 days per week.
• Pay: £10.95-£12.81 per hour.
• Benefits: 6 weeks holiday, 15% staff discount, staff benefits package, and more.

We are looking to recruit a new retail assistant for our shop in Saltcoats, North Ayrshire. We offer a permanent part time position working a variety of shifts, with a minimum of 8 hours worked over 2 days each week, including weekends.

Pay & Benefits

• Ages : £10.95 per hour
• Ages 21+: £12.81 per hour

• 6 weeks holiday each year.
• Great training and development opportunities.
• 15% staff discount to use in any of our 300+ shops on a great range of food and household essentials.
• A smart uniform.
• Free life assurance.
• A staff benefits package which includes a virtual GP as well as discounted services and products such as cinema tickets, gym memberships, days out and travel.

Responsibilities

• Make all customers feel welcome with a friendly smile and simple hello.
• Help customers find the items they are looking for.
• Give fast and friendly service at the tills, always offering help to pack and leaving a positive impression with a friendly thank you and goodbye.
• Handle stock with care while working deliveries, quickly placing products into freezers and on shelves ready for customers.
• Work with the rest of the team to complete daily and weekly routines that keep the shop safe, clean and tidy.

Qualifications

• A friendly, positive, hard working approach to work.
• Enjoy being busy as there is always something to do; jump between deliveries, till, shop floor, cleaning, stock rotation routines and more.
• Reliable, as an important part of a small team; customers and colleagues will depend upon you to do your best on each shift and not let the team down.
• A bit of flexibility with shifts; can cover different hours to cover for colleagues during holidays; rota planned three weeks in advance and commitments outside work considered.

More than just a job

Many people come to us for a part time job to earn money while studying at school, college or university and others find it fits around other commitments like raising a family. If you decide to stick around then there are many opportunities for a career at Farmfoods. We have great training programmes and always look to promote to shop and area manager positions from within. Many people in management and central services positions at Farmfoods started their careers in our shops, so this could be the start of a rewarding career for you.

A bit about us

Farmfoods are a family business with ambition. We pride ourselves on offering our customers great value, quality products from clean and tidy shops with the friendliest team in retail. We aim to offer sensational value to customers on a great range of everyday family oriented goods. We back up our sensational value with a focus on delivering an ‘old fashioned’, genuine and friendly customer experience. Our Retail Assistants are very important. They each serve hundreds of customers each week and have the reputation of Farmfoods in their hands. To our customers, they are Farmfoods.

Contract Information

Position: PTRA, Hours: 8, Days: 2