Sales Assistant - Postmark

Battersea Academy for Skills & Employment (BASE) C.I.C.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 17,000 - 19,000; Part time

Job summary

Postmark is recruiting in London at Battersea Power Station for a Sales Assistant. The role is 6 hours per week, paid at £12.50 per hour, with an immediate start and full flexibility to collect heavy deliveries on Wednesdays and Sundays.

You will join a friendly team focused on delivering great customer service, merchandising the shop floor, assisting shoppers, and processing payments while keeping the store tidy and welcoming.

Qualifications

• Friendly and engaging personality.
• Confident working with members of the public.
• Approachable and polite.
• Able to handle the fast-paced retail environment.
• Interest in cards and stationery and ability to learn products.
• Team player.
• Smart appearance and articulate.
• Great English.

Responsibilities

• Greet customers who enter the shop.
• Merchandise and tidy to keep shop floor attractive.
• Assist shoppers to find items.
• Answer customer queries.
• Replenish stock.
• Assist with deliveries.
• Process payments.
• Keep store tidy and clean with daily/weekly tasks.
• Price merchandise.
• Open and close the shop as required.
• Balance cash registers with receipts on closing shifts.
• Report discrepancies to supervisor or manager.
• Keep up to date with promotions and displays.

Skills

Friendly personality

Confident with public

Approachable

Helpful and polite

Team player

Smart appearance

Articulate

Excellent English

Job description

Postmark is recruiting.

Location: London Battersea Power Station

Position: Sales Assistant

Hours: 6 per week

Salary: £12.50 per hour

Immediate start: Fully flexible able to collect heavy deliverieson Wednesdays and Sundays

About us

At Postmark we love cards, and we love happy customers. We are unashamedly determined to bring our customers the widest range of quality greeting cards and stationery on the UK high street.

Our sales staff are at the heart of everything we do and play a hugely important role in bringing our vision to life.

General day-to-day Sales Assistant duties

• Greeting customers who enter the shop
• Merchandising and tidying at every opportunity to ensure the shop floor looks its best and has a great selection of cards, especially bestsellers, available.
• Assisting shoppers to find items they are looking for.
• Answering queries from customers.
• Replenishing stock
• Assisting with deliveries
• Processing payments
• Keeping the store tidy and clean by completing key daily and weekly tasks as set by your manager
• Pricing merchandise
• Closing and opening the shop as required
• Balancing cash registers with receipts if you are on a closing shift.
• Reporting any discrepancies and problems to your supervisor or Manager
• Keeping up to date with special promotions and putting up displays

The personal skills we are looking for in a Sales Assistant

• A friendly and engaging personality.
• Confident working with members of the public.
• An approachable manner.
• Helpful and polite.
• Able to handle the fast-paced retail environment
• An interest in cards and stationery and an ability to learn about all our products
• Able to work as part of a team.
• Smart appearance and articulate.
• Great English