Retail Assistant - Part Time

Farmfoods; Grays; On-site; GBP 6,275,000 - 7,343,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

6 weeks holiday

15% staff discount

Staff benefits package

Life assurance

Job summary

Farmfoods in Grays, Essex, is seeking a part-time Retail Assistant to join our shop team. The role involves welcoming customers, helping them find products, and delivering a fast, friendly till service with packing assistance. You will also handle stock and assist with deliveries to keep shelves stocked and presentable.

The position offers a minimum of 8 hours across 2 days per week, including weekends, with great training and career progression opportunities within Farmfoods.

Qualifications

• Customer-focused approach to help shoppers
• Reliable and flexible with shifts
• Able to work in a small team
• Willing to cover weekends and various hours

Responsibilities

• Make customers feel welcome with a friendly smile and greeting
• Help customers locate items and provide assistance
• Provide fast, friendly till service and offer to help with packing
• Handle stock and deliveries, place products in freezers and on shelves
• Collaborate with the team to complete daily and weekly store routines

Skills

Customer service

Reliability

Teamwork

Flexibility

Job description

Retail Assistant - Part Time

We are looking to recruit a new Retail Assistant for our shop in Grays, Essex (postcode: RM17 6QE). We offer a permanent part time position working a variety of shifts, with a minimum of 8 hours worked over 2 days from 7 each week, including weekends.

Position: PTRA, Hours: 8, Days: 2

Pay & Benefits

• Pay: £10.95 - £12.81 per hour
• Hours: 8 hours across 2 days per week
• Benefits: 6 weeks holiday, 15% staff discount, staff benefits package, and more!
• Pay by age:
  • Ages 16-20 = £10.95 per hour
  • Ages 21+ = £12.81 per hour
• Additional benefits:
  • 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.

Responsibility

• 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.

Requirements

• 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

Many people come to us for a part time job to earn a bit of money whilst they are studying at school, college or university and others find that it fits in well 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 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.

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.