Retail Assistant - Part Time, Early Starts

Farmfoods; Forfar; On-site; GBP 14,000 - 18,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

6 weeks holiday

Staff discount 15%

Smart uniform

Life assurance

Training and development

Career progression opportunities

Job summary

Farmfoods is hiring a Retail Assistant for our Forfar shop in Angus. This permanent part-time role involves early starts with a minimum of 12 hours across 3 days per week, including weekends. Pay ranges £10.95–£12.81 per hour, with 6 weeks holiday and a 15% staff discount.

You will be part of a small team, delivering friendly service and stock handling. Benefits include training and development opportunities, a smart uniform, and life assurance.

Qualifications

• Previous retail experience is useful.
• Willing to work early mornings, shifts including weekends.
• Must be reliable and able to work as part of a small team.

Responsibilities

• Greet customers with a friendly smile and hello.
• Help customers locate items and assist at the till.
• Provide fast, friendly service and assist with packing.
• Handle stock and deliveries, place products on shelves/freezers.
• Support daily and weekly shop routines to keep the store clean and safe.

Skills

Friendly attitude

Hardworking

Reliability

Flexibility

Job description

Retail Assistant – Part Time, Early Starts. Hours: 12 hours across 3 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 Forfar, Angus (postcode: DD8 3HN). We offer a permanent part time position working a variety of shifts, with a minimum of 12 hours worked over 3 days each week, including weekends. Please note that this position will require you to be available for shifts starting early in the morning. This position may not be suitable for you if you are not available for early morning work.

Pay & benefits

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

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.

Job 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.

Required skills and attributes

• 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.

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.

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.

Contract information: Position: PTRA, Hours: 12, Days: 3