Retail Assistant - Part Time

Farmfoods; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading family-run retail company seeks a Retail Assistant for its Plymouth shop. The position is part-time, requiring a minimum of 16 hours over 4 days. Responsibilities include welcoming customers, handling stock, and ensuring excellent customer service. Ideal candidates will be friendly, reliable, and flexible with shifts. This role provides competitive pay and benefits, such as staff discounts and training opportunities.

Benefits

6 weeks holiday each year

15% staff discount

Free life assurance

Staff benefits package with virtual GP

Great training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• A friendly, positive, hard-working approach to work.
• To enjoy being busy and multitasking.
• Be reliable and dependable as a team member.
• A bit of flexibility regarding shifts.

Responsibilities

• Make customers feel welcome with a friendly smile.
• Help customers find the items they are looking for.
• Provide fast, friendly service at the tills.
• Handle stock carefully while working deliveries.
• Complete daily routines to keep shops safe and tidy.

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 Plymouth, Devon. We offer a permanent part time position working a variety of shifts, with a minimum of 16 hours worked over 4 days from 7 each week, including weekends.

Pay & Benefits

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

Responsibilities

• 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

Key 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 you 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.

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: PTRA, Hours: 16, Days: 4