Trading Assistant - Shift

Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd; Melksham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading supermarket as a Nightshift Trading Assistant in Melksham. You'll work in a fast-paced environment, ensuring shelves are stocked and customers are served. Enjoy great benefits like discounts, free food, and development opportunities.

Benefits

10% discount card

Free food and hot drinks

Generous holiday entitlement

Pension matching

Shopping discounts

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Must be 18 years or older due to working hours and goods handled.
• Right to Work eligibility in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Collecting stock from the warehouse using heavy roll cages.
• Serving customers and answering questions.
• Date checking fresh produce and grocery products.

Skills

Customer Service

Attention to Detail

Problem Solving

Job description

Melksham Store, Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd Bath Road, Melksham Wiltshire, SN12 6LL

£12.45 per hour

39 hours per week

Working in our stores:

Our stores are fast-paced environments that work around the clock and where food is our passion. They are at the heart of the local community, providing outstanding value, unbeatable quality and great service. As one of our Nightshift Trading Assistants, you’ll be the special ingredient working through the night to ensure our stores are set up brilliantly to give our customers everything they come to Sainsbury’s for.

Eligibility:

• The minimum application age for this role is 18, due to the working hours and type of goods (alcohol, etc) that you may be required to handle.
• You must have Right to Work eligibility in the UK.

What you’ll be doing:

• Collecting stock from the warehouse using heavy roll cages (up to 15KG) to replenish a variety of items across the store, keeping our shelves clean, tidy and full of well-presented products.
• Always ready to serve our customers brilliantly when the store is open, supporting with any questions, and proactively offering help.
• Date checking fresh produce and grocery products.
• Helping across the store as needed and supporting with deliveries as required.
• Building great knowledge about our products, services and promotions to help provide recommendations.

What makes a great Sainsbury’s Colleague:

• Happy working overnight in a fast-paced, physical and high energy environment, often on your own but also thriving as part of a team.
• Friendly and welcoming with a genuine enthusiasm for helping customers.
• Takes responsibility for owning tasks and uses initiative to solve problems.
• Always prepared to work flexibly and productively across the store to a high standard. You’ll be fully trained in a variety of skills, so you have opportunities to learn, develop and try new things.
• Comfortable in learning to use new digital tools and technology to do your job brilliantly.
• Have great attention to detail, keeping the store clean and clutter-free, always looking to create the best shopping experience for our customers.

Working for us has great rewards:

We truly value our colleagues and provide market-leading benefits and training to reflect that:

• Discount card: 10% off at Sainsbury’s, Argos, Tu, and Habitat after four weeks, increasing to 15% at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday, and 15% at Argos every pay day.
• Free food and hot drinks: provided for colleagues in all our stores.
• Generous holiday entitlement: based on the hours you work, plus maternity and paternity leave.
• Pension: we’ll match between 4-7.5% of your pension contributions.
• Sainsbury’s share schemes: buy shares at discounted prices.
• Shopping discounts: special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers, and more.
• Wellbeing support: including free access to our Employee Assistance Programme, a confidential service providing support and guidance on a wide range of issues.

Please note that our vacancies may close quickly, so we encourage candidates to apply at their earliest convenience.

An inclusive place to work and shop

We are dedicated to being a truly inclusive retailer, where every colleague can achieve their full potential, and every customer feels welcome when they shop with us.

To support this, our colleagues may be entitled to a range of enhanced discretionary leave for families, as well as support for carers. We provide resources to help understand and support your role and your team effectively. Our internal colleague networks seek to ensure true representation for everyone, helping us identify and remove barriers faced by colleagues.

We offer development opportunities, including mentorship, training, and career progression pathways, to help our colleagues grow and succeed. We celebrate diversity through initiatives and events, fostering inclusion and respect. To learn more about our commitment to inclusivity, please visit our website.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments during the application or interview stages, please let us know, and we will endeavour to support you.