Sales Assistant 24 hrs fixed term (m/f/x)

UK WIP Ltd.; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 15,000; Part time

Job summary

Carhartt WIP in Newcastle is seeking a Sales Assistant to join the team over the busy festive period, working 24 hours per week until 24 January 2027. The role focuses on delivering exceptional customer service, driving sales, and maintaining brand standards in a busy retail environment.

You will adapt Carhartt's brand stories to the shop floor, replenish stock, and ensure policies are followed, while building product knowledge and confidence when engaging with English-speaking customers.

Qualifications

• Experience in retail or customer service.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Confident and outgoing with strong selling ability.
• Fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent customer service and adapt brand stories to the retail setting.
• Drive sales ensuring that targets are achieved.
• Process sales transactions.
• Replenish stock and maintain the day-to-day standards in visual displays.
• Ensure that all operational store policies and procedures are followed.
• Develop product knowledge.

Skills

Retail experience

Customer service

Communication skills

Confidence

Sales skills

English fluency

Job description

We are currently looking for a Sales Assistant in our Newcastle store to join us over the busy festive period, working 24 hours a week until 24th January 2027.

Your Responsibilities

• Provide excellent customer service and adapt brand stories to the retail setting
• Drive sales ensuring that targets are achieved
• Process sales transactions
• Replenish stock and maintain the day-to-day standards in visual displays
• Ensure that all operational store policies and procedures are followed
• Develop your product knowledge

Your Profile

• Experience in retail / customer service
• Excellent communication skills
• Confident and outgoing
• Effective selling skills
• Fluent in English

Carhartt WIP is part of the WIP Trading AG. Our family-owned business group started as a licensee and European distributor of the US workwear manufacturer Carhartt in the early 1990s. Since then, it develops its own collections based on workwear originals. Carhartt Work In Progress aims to continuously progress and evolve, without ever losing sight of its origins. Over the course of the past three decades, our business has developed organically, along with its customers, the culture that surrounds the brand, and its employees who have helped shape what Carhartt WIP is today.