Wellness Sport Advisor

DECATHLON Belgium NV; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Decathlon UK is hiring Sales Assistants / Sports Advisors. You will share sport tips, provide technical product advice, and support customers in store and online as part of an omnichannel experience.

You will help manage stock and pricing, maintain high merchandising standards, and work in a team while also finishing tasks independently. Expect weekend/evening shifts and a customer-first approach.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills to advise customers.
• Ability to work in a team and autonomously manage stock and merchandising.
• Willingness to work evenings and weekends as required.

Responsibilities

• Assist customers in-store and online with technical product advice.
• Manage stock levels and pricing to ensure easy product finding.
• Work as part of a shop floor team and support busy periods.

Skills

Customer service

Team player

Communication skills

Problem solving

Job description

• Customer Service - Through your own passion for sport, you'll share your tips and experiences with users and through our hands-on product training you will be able to give the best technical advice for the sports you are responsible for. Decathlon has shifted over the last year into an omnichannel business so it's essential that our sales assistants are able to assist customers in all aspects of retail shopping, whether that's in store or online!
• Merchandising - Whether full time or part time, every Sales Assistant is encouraged to take responsibility to autonomously manage stock levels and pricing and to provide a high level of merchandising so that each customer can easily find the right product for their sporting practice.

• Team Player - You will be part of a shop floor team of like-minded Sales Assistants, practicing sport and celebrating victories together, so it's important that you are able to work well within a team environment as well as independently.

  Someone looking to combine a passion for sport with work.

• A people person who is prepared to go the extra mile.
• Someone looking for a retail career with a difference
• Problem solver with excellent communication skills.

• Able to play as part of the team during the busiest times (weekends and holidays).

  As a Sports Advisor or Sales Assistant, you will be required to work usual retail hours including evenings and weekends.

ABOUT DECATHLON International.

Lovers of sports. Team players. Stronger together through our love of sports. At Decathlon UK, we provide Careers That Let You Play. We are driven by our mission to help more people in the UK get physically active and healthy. We are a part of the DECATHLON Group, one of the world's leading sporting goods retailers. Headquartered in France, DECATHLON specializes in the creation of sports products and their distribution online and in stores at more than 1,700 locations in 61 countries. In the UK, it has over 50 stores nationwide and an e-commerce site that caters to nationwide delivery. We're an international sports retailer with 2080 stores in 56 countries, and if you look a little closer, you'll see we're so much more. Decathlon is dedicated to helping, inspiring and guiding you through your sports experiences. We believe that discovering new sports and being active - well, it's an important part of life - and living well shouldn't just be for a privileged few. Thank you for checking the contracted hours above to see if this is a full-time or part-time role! Decathlon is committed to inclusion and non-discrimination, and thus acts on a daily basis in favor of disability, a multi-generational workforce, social diversity, and equality between women and men. If, due to a disability, you require any special accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know. At Decathlon, first and foremost, we are recruiting personality and character. A note on reasonable adjustments Decathlon is committed to inclusion and non-discrimination, and thus acts on a daily basis in favor of disability, a multi-generational workforce, social diversity, and equality between women and men. If, due to a disability, you require any special accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know. At Decathlon, first and foremost, we are recruiting personality and character.