Customer Sales Advisor

Halfords; Merthyr Tydfil; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 19,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Store discount

Employee discount

Cycle to Work scheme

Wagestream financial planning app

Life Assurance

Uniform

Job summary

Halfords in the United Kingdom is seeking a customer-focused retail team member to deliver excellent service. You will help customers choose products, explain services, and learn Halfords fitting services through comprehensive training.

A proactive attitude and weekly weekend availability are valued; prior sales experience is a plus, and discounts across products are included. Halfords emphasises career development and offers a supportive environment to progress within Retail or other group

Qualifications

• Experience delivering great customer service, ideally in retail sales.
• Proactive approach to helping customers and understanding needs.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Willingness to work on a rota, including weekends.
• Experience in working towards and achieving sales targets is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Assist customers in-store with product selection and services.
• Demonstrate and explain Halfords products and fitting services.
• Provide excellent service and meet or exceed sales targets.

Skills

Customer service

Sales experience

Problem solving

Weekend rota

Sales targets

Job description

€14.15 per hour

Got a knack with customers?

Ideally, you already have Retail sales experience but if you've worked in another customer focused sales environment, we're likely to be a great fit for each other.

You're already a legend at quick and efficient working, and we'll give you the product knowledge and skills training you need to wow every customer. You'll learn how to demonstrate and explain our products as well as the practical aspects of our fitting services.

We invest heavily in training to give our colleagues skills to develop their careers, so whatever career path you want to follow and whatever pace you want to progress, we have the support here to help you make your ambitions a reality, whether it's in Retail or elsewhere in the Group.

To Be Successful In This Role You Will Need

• Experience of delivering great customer service, ideally in a retail sales environment
• A proactive approach to helping customers and understanding their needs
• Problem solving skills
• Availability to work on a rota basis, including weekends
• Ideally, some experience of working towards and achieving sales targets

Benefits

• Store discount, with 25% off most products across Halfords and Tredz
• Employee discount, with up to 50% off your garage bills at Halfords Autocentre
• Discounts on everything from groceries and shopping through to holidays, insurance, days out, restaurants and more
• Employee wellness programme offering free, independent, confidential support and counselling 24 hours a day, seven days a week
• Fantastic Trade Price Bike Scheme - buy one bike per year from a range of bikes which have been significantly reduced
• Life Assurance
• Uniform
• Option to join our Sharesave scheme: save to purchase shares at a 20% discount
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Wagestream - a financial planning app that gives you more control over your pay. Access up to 30% of your pay as you earn it and save automatically from your salary to build a rainy-day fund for the future

We're in an exciting chapter - rapidly growing our business with a focus on motoring services and electric mobility. We're the UK's leading retailer of motoring and cycling products and services, and the UK's largest vehicle service, maintenance and repair business. Join us and be part of our success story in getting the nation safely back on the move.

Not sure you meet all the criteria? We'd encourage you to take the wheel and apply anyway! At Halfords we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for our colleagues. We're an equal opportunities employer and proud to welcome applications from all backgrounds and embrace diversity within our one Halfords Family.