Casual Retail Assistant

GSF Car Parts Limited; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Part time

Job summary

GSF Car Parts Limited is seeking a Casual Retail Assistant who will play a crucial role in providing excellent customer service. Responsibilities include serving trade and retail customers, fulfilling orders, and assisting the sales team. The successful candidate will have a proven background in customer service or sales, be target-driven, and possess excellent attention to detail. The role involves casual hours to cover sickness and leave, including weekends.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in customer service or sales in a retail environment.
• Target-driven and motivated to achieve sales results.
• Ability to positively resolve customer queries.

Responsibilities

• Serve customers for click and collect and general orders.
• Assist with product promotions and customer inquiries.
• Maintain cleanliness in customer-facing areas.

Skills

Customer service experience

Sales experience

IT literacy

Attention to detail

Tools

MAM

Allicat

MS Office

Job description

About The Role

At GSF Car Parts, the role of a Casual Retail Assistant is all encompassing for our aim to deliver excellent Customer Service. You will play a crucial part of the team, contributing towards achieving branch and individual targets through face‑to‑face sales, servicing click‑and‑collect orders and developing sound customer relationships.

Main duties include:

• Serve trade and retail customers for click and collect and general orders whilst maximising sales where possible.
• Pick relevant parts from the warehouse to fulfil customer orders.
• Assist the sales team on sales of product promotions by answering telephone queries and dealing with electronic queries as and when needed.
• Fully satisfy customer needs in respect of any part orders, returns, or queries they may have.
• Check customer returns for resale, warranty or surcharge.
• Contribute to a positive team performance whilst working on personal benchmarks to optimise personal performance and work on sales of product promotions.
• Utilise the e‑learning portal to develop product knowledge and improve performance.
• Ensure that the customer‑facing areas of the branch are kept clean and tidy.
• Develop strong working relationships with customers and understand their garage needs.
• Always promote a good image of the company by representing our values and maintaining a professional appearance.
• Always work towards the achievement of relevant set KPI’s.

Working hours:

Casual basis to cover sickness and annual leave. Will include weekend working.

About You

What you’ll need to succeed:

• Proven customer service or sales/retail experience within a customer‑facing role.
• Target‑driven and motivated to achieve results.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Ability to adopt a positive approach to customer queries, pro‑actively seeking resolutions.
• Confident user of IT and computer systems.
• The ability to work well with others.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Knowledge of car parts or the automotive industry would be advantageous but isn’t essential.
• Knowledge of MAM, Allicat, MS Office is desirable.

About Us

GSF Car Parts is one of the UK’s leading automotive parts distributors, supplying thousands of independent garages throughout the UK and Ireland with parts, tools, garage equipment and specialist training. The group has over 175 branches nationwide and a turnover exceeding £475 million. Built on the heritage and success of a dozen local brand identities acquired over several years, we have traded as one brand since November 2021. Our branch network is bolstered by centralised support and expertise from specialist departments in key areas such as procurement and supply chain, marketing and national accounts. The business also benefits from integrated IT systems, which include our industry‑leading catalogue system, Allicat, and access to the Group’s national garage programme, Servicesure.