Retail Assistant - Part Time

Retail Assistant - Part Time

Position: PTRA, Hours: 16, Days: 4

We offer a permanent part time position working a variety of shifts, with a minimum of 16 hours worked over 4 days each week, including weekends.

Pay & Benefits

The amount you will earn depends on your age:

• Ages 16-20 = £10.10 per hour
• Ages 21+ = £12.31 per hour

In addition to your pay you will also benefit from:

• 6 weeks holiday each year
• Great training and development opportunities
• 15% staff discount 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 a simple hello
• Help customers find the items they are looking for
• Give a fast and friendly service at the tills, always offering help to pack and leaving a good impression with a friendly thank you and goodbye
• Handle stock with care whilst working deliveries, quickly placing products into our freezers and onto our shelves ready for our customers to buy
• Work with the rest of your team to complete the daily and weekly routines that keep our shops 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 putting out deliveries, serving on the till, helping customers on the shop floor, completing important cleaning and stock rotation routines and more
• Reliability; important part of a small team; must meet commitments on each shift and not let the team down
• A bit of flexibility with shifts; may need to work slightly different hours to cover for other team members when they are on holiday, with rota's planned three weeks in advance

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 or to fit around other commitments such as raising a family. If you decide to stay, there are opportunities for career progression within Farmfoods, with training programmes and promotion from within.

About Us

Farmfoods are a family business with ambition. We pride ourselves on offering our customers great value and quality products from clean and tidy shops with the friendliest team in retail. We aim to deliver an "old fashioned", genuine and friendly customer experience.