Retail Sales Assistant

Cotton Traders; Atherstone; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 17,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discounts

Clothing allowance

Health cash-plan

Long service award

28 days holiday

Store clothing allowance

Job summary

Cotton Traders in Atherstone is recruiting Retail Sales Assistants to join our team. You will help deliver an engaging customer experience and merchandise the store in line with our brand guidance. The role supports stock handling, replenishment and a friendly, collaborative work environment.

We value upbeat attitudes, flexibility and a proactive approach to KPIs. Exciting opportunity to grow with a national clothing retailer offering employee discounts and clothing allowances.

Qualifications

• Deliver a true and honest customer experience and treat customers as you would like to be treated.
• Support in store presentation in line with brand guidance.
• Assist with stockrooms, replenishment and stock control.
• Serve customers in a helpful and pleasant manner.
• Be kind to colleagues and maintain a positive workplace.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a true and honest customer experience and treat customers as you would like to be treated.
• Merchandise the store in line with brand guidance.
• Manage store stockrooms, ensuring effective replenishment and stock control.
• Serve customers in a helpful and pleasant manner.
• Be kind to colleagues and contribute to a happy, engaging workplace.

Skills

Customer service mindset

Kind values

Open to change

Flexibility

KPIs awareness

Computing proficiency

Job description

As a multi-channel retailer and now in our third decade on the high street, we are seeking three Retail Sales Assistants to join our Atherstone team. Must be aged 18 or above due to store opening and closing, as well as lone working.

Who are Cotton Traders?

CT for short, we are a clothing retailer and established in 1987 by England rugby captains and legends Fran Cotton and Steve Smith. Supported by a growing online and offline (catalogue) presence, we have 80 stores nationwide in England, Scotland and Wales and employ 800 people across the country. We have an ambitious 5-year plan to grow the business across all touch points and we can only do this with the best people around us.

From humble beginnings but with great belief and dedication from our people, we’ve grown CT from the ground up starting with a single shop and growing into the well-known, nationwide, trusted high street retailer we are today.

What’s in the role and what are looking for?

We are looking for an enthusiastic Retail Sales Assistant to join our successful team. You will be working alongside brilliant colleagues and be able provide an engaging customer experience. The most important thing we recruit for at CT is attitude - we have an army of positive, helpful, and kind individuals who enjoy what they do, make great first and lasting impressions and have helped us become the great brand that we are now.

Traditionally, our Sales Assistants are responsible for: -

• Delivering a true and honest customer experience, treating those as you yourself would like to be treated
• Helping to merchandise the store in line with our brand guidance
• Managing store stockrooms, ensuring effective replenishment and stock control
• Serving customers in a helpful and pleasant manner.
• Being kind to colleagues and others to create a happy and engaging workplace

Key skills and behaviours that we look for: -

• Passionate about people and customer experiences
• Kind with morally sound values
• Open to change and challenge
• Flexibility
• Willing to work towards KPIs
• Competent with computers and willing to engage with technology

What’s on offer?

We are protective and proud in equal measure of our culture and suggest you take a look at our values on our website to gain a better understanding of life at CT. Once you’re on the journey however, you’ll be rewarded with, alongside other things: -

• Up to £12.71 per hour, working 8 hours per week
• 28 days holiday (including bank holidays, pro-rata)
• Very generous clothing allowance
• Employee discounts for you and your family
• Health cash-plan
• Long service award

This is a great opportunity to join one of the UK’s best loved clothing brands – help us spread our passion and enthusiasm for customers.