Retail Assistant - Part Time, Evenings & Weekends

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

Job summary

A grocery retailer in Altofts seeks a part-time Retail Assistant to provide excellent customer service during evenings and weekends. The role involves assisting customers, managing stock, and ensuring a tidy store environment. Ideal candidates should have a positive attitude, be reliable, and enjoy a busy work environment. Opportunities for career advancement are available. Pay ranges from £10.10 to £12.31 per hour depending on age, with additional benefits.

Benefits

6 weeks holiday

15% staff discount

Free life assurance

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Enjoy being busy and able to multitask.
• Ability to work well in a team.
• Good communication skills to interact with customers.

Responsibilities

• Welcome customers with a friendly smile.
• Assist customers in locating items.
• Provide friendly service at the tills.
• Handle stock during deliveries.
• Maintain a clean and tidy shop.

Skills

Friendly and positive attitude

Reliable and hardworking

Flexibility in shifts

Job description

Retail Assistant – Part Time, Evenings & Weekends

• Hours : 16 hours across 4days per week.
• Pay : £10.10 - £12.31 per hour.
• Benefits : 6 weeks holiday, 15% staff discount, staff benefits package, and more!

We are looking to recruit a new retail assistant for our shop in Normanton, West Yorkshire.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.

Please note that this position will require you to be available for shifts on weekday evenings and all day on Saturday and Sunday. This position may not be suitable for you if you are not available to work at these times.

Pay & benefits

The amount that you will earn depends on your age

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

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.