Retail Assistant - Part Time, Early Starts

Farmfoods; Tendring; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 18,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

6 weeks holiday

15% staff discount

Training and development

Smart uniform

Life assurance

Job summary

Farmfoods is hiring a part-time Retail Assistant to join our team. This role involves early starts, totaling 20 hours over 4 days each week, with hourly pay ranging from £10.95 to £12.81 depending on age. In addition to pay, you will enjoy 6 weeks holiday, a 15% staff discount, and comprehensive training.

As a Retail Assistant you will greet customers, help them find products, provide fast till service, assist with deliveries, and keep shelves stocked. Flexibility to cover shifts is required.

Qualifications

• Customer service experience is preferred.
• Ability to work in a busy retail environment.
• Willingness to be flexible with shifts.
• Positive, reliable and proactive approach to work.

Responsibilities

• Greeting customers with a friendly hello and help.
• Assist customers in locating items and providing fast till service.
• Pack purchases and maintain a tidy shop floor and stock areas.
• Support deliveries and stock rotation to keep shelves well stocked.

Skills

Customer service

Team player

Flexible

Friendly attitude

Job description

Retail Assistant – Part Time, Early Starts - Hours: 20 hours across 4 days per week. - Pay: £10.95 - £12.81 per hour. - Benefits: 6 weeks holiday, 15% staff discount, and more!

Pay & benefits

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

In addition to your pay you will also benefit from:

• 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.

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

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.

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: PTRA, Hours: 20, Days: 4