Retail Assistant - Full Time

Farmfoods; Leicester Forest East; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 18,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

6 weeks holiday

15% staff discount

Life assurance

Workplace pension

Smart uniform

Job summary

Farmfoods are hiring a Retail Assistant for a 39-hour, full-time role in Leicester. You will work across five days per week with shifts including weekends, delivering a friendly customer experience and helping with stock and deliveries.

The role offers 6 weeks holiday, 15% staff discount, life assurance and a workplace pension. A smart uniform is provided and full training and development opportunities are available.

Qualifications

• Friendly, positive, hard-working approach.
• Flexible shifts including weekends.
• Reliable as part of a small team.

Responsibilities

• Make customers feel welcome with a smile and simple hello.
• Help customers find items they are looking for.
• Provide fast, friendly till service and assist with packing.
• Handle stock during deliveries and place products on shelves and in freezers.
• Work with the team to keep the shop safe, clean and tidy.

Skills

Friendly demeanor

Reliable

Teamwork

Customer service

Hardworking

Till operation

Tools

Tills / POS

Job description

Retail Assistant – Full Time - Hours: 39 hours across 5 days per week. - Pay: £10.95 - £12.81 per hour. - Benefits: 6 weeks holiday, 15% staff discount, and more!

We are looking to recruit a new Retail Assistant for our shop in Aylestone, Leicester (postcode: LE2 8TB). We offer a permanent 39 hour full time position working a variety of shifts, 5 days from 7 each week.

Please note that for full time positions we will generally require you to be fully flexible in your availability for work throughout the week, including weekends.

Pay & benefits:

• Ages 16-20 = £10.95 per hour
• Ages 21+ = £12.81 per hour

• 30 days 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.
• Workplace pension

As one of our retail assistants you will:

• Make all of our customers feel welcome with a friendly smile and simple hello.
• Help customers find the items that 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.

You will need:

• A friendly, positive, hard working approach to work.
• To enjoy being busy as there is always something to do. You'll jump from putting out deliveries to serving on the till, helping customers on the shop floor, completing important cleaning and stock rotation routines and more!
• To be reliable as you will be an important part of a small team. Your colleagues and customers will depend upon to do your best on each shift and not let the team down.
• A bit of flexibility when it comes to your shifts. When other members of your team are off enjoying their holidays, we may need you to work slightly different hours to cover for them. Rota's are planned three weeks in advance and your commitments outside of work will always be taken into consideration when planning your shifts.

More than just a job:

If you decide to stick around then there are many opportunities for a career at Farmfoods. We have some 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: FTRA, Hours: 39, Days: 5