Retail Customer Assistant - Fast-Paced & Friendly

Sainsbury's Digital, Tech and Data

Bury St Edmunds

On-site

GBP 20,000 - 26,000

Full time

21 hours ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Discount card
Holiday entitlement
Enhanced Family Leave
Pension and life cover
Sainsbury’s share schemes
Other Retail savings
Physical wellbeing
Mental wellbeing
Financial support

Job summary

Sainsbury's in-store team is seeking a Customer Assistant to help run our stores smoothly and warmly. You’ll be on the shop floor, assisting customers, stocking shelves, and supporting colleagues in a busy retail environment.

You’ll learn about products and promotions, provide friendly, helpful service, and use digital tools to enhance the customer experience. A team-focused, proactive approach is valued across shifts and locations.

Qualifications

  • Friendly and welcoming, with a genuine enthusiasm for helping customers
  • Thrive working in a fast-paced, physical and high-energy environment
  • A committed team player, always willing to support colleagues and work together
  • Flexibility and willingness to work across the store and take on new challenges
  • Open to learning, developing and trying new things to improve our service
  • Confident learning to use new digital tools and technology to do your job brilliantly
  • Take pride and ownership in your work, including close attention to detail, maintaining a clean and tidy work space and always looking for ways to make our customer experience better

Responsibilities

  • Putting customers first and making them feel valued through thoughtful, friendly and helpful service
  • Ready to help wherever our customers need you most, whether that’s filling shelves, picking orders, serving customers or selling our products
  • Using and embracing digital tools to do your job well and enhance customer experience
  • Helping organise and move stock, including keeping shelves tidy, clean and well-presented, and manoeuvring often heavy loads to the correct store location
  • Building your knowledge of our products, services and promotions so you can confidently make helpful recommendations to our customers

Job description

Sainsbury's in-store team is seeking a Customer Assistant to help run our stores smoothly and warmly. You’ll be on the shop floor, assisting customers, stocking shelves, and supporting colleagues in a busy retail environment.

You’ll learn about products and promotions, provide friendly, helpful service, and use digital tools to enhance the customer experience. A team-focused, proactive approach is valued across shifts and locations.

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