Agri Retail Sales & Yard Assistant-Athenry

ArraTipp Co; Athenry; On-site; EUR 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

ArraTipp Co in Athenry is seeking an Agri Retail Sales/Yard Assistant. You will support customers, maintain the yard, manage stock, and organise deliveries in and out of the yard area. Forklift may be used; strong English is essential for daily operations.

Responsibilities include stock takes, loading goods on site, and ensuring a clean, well-presented store and yard. Flexible to cover store and yard areas and to assist other sites as required.

Qualifications

• Have agricultural knowledge.
• Ideally have retail/agri experience.
• Be flexible to work across store and yard areas.
• Forklift licence desirable.
• Strong English spoken and written.

Responsibilities

• Provide sales support and ensure high-quality customer service.
• Process sales using the point-of-sale system and payments.
• Merchandise products in-store and in the yard.
• Receive deliveries and maintain cleanliness and presentation.
• Load bags and items on site, some lifts required.

Skills

Customer service

Stock management

Sales transactions

Merchandising

Forklift operation

Tools

Forklift truck

Job description

Agri Retail Sales/Yard Assistant

Reporting to: Store Manager

Location: Athenry

Business Sector: Agri Retail

Overview

The position involves providing sales support to the store, ensuring that customers receive exceptional service at all times. The Sales and Yard Assistant will be responsible for maintaining the yard to a high standard, managing stock levels, and organising deliveries both in and out of the yard area. This includes manually loading products for customers and vendors, as well as using a forklift when necessary. Strong customer service skills and a solid understanding of the products available in the branch are essential for this role. Additionally, the position includes conducting stock takes of goods in the store and yard.

General Duties

• Customer service - continually interface with and ensure that customers always receive a high-quality service. Deal with customer queries in an efficient and friendly manner either in person or by telephone
• Conduct sales transactions through to completion including using the point-of-sale system and processing payments
• Merchandising - ensure that products are presented in the correct manner both in store and in the yard
• Receipt of deliveries
• Store presentation; ensure that the store and accompanying yard is clean, tidy and presentable to members of the public at all times. Ensure excellent standards of merchandising, pricing and hygiene at all times
• Be flexible in all areas of the store

Support Other Sites For Cover When Required

• Loading of bags with goods approx. 20 -25kg (daily on site) Coal bags, Feed bags, cement etc.
• Loading of Large bags/items i.e. fertilizer/concrete troughs which can be loaded by support of the forklift (Daily on site)
• Loading of buckets approx.15kg (Daily on site) Mineral licks buckets etc.
• Loading of drum barrels 5L10L& 20L (Daily on site) Oil drums, Chemical drums etc.
• Loading boxes 5kg,10kg,15kg,20kg & 25kg (Daily on site)
• Loading a variety of goods in our Agri/hardware section i.e. Gates, pipes, drinkers, wheelbarrows (Daily on site)
• We stock a range of items some lifts consist of team lifts, two-man lifts, and machine supported lifts. (Daily on site)

Requirements

• Have agricultural knowledge
• Ideally have a track record of Agri/Retail experience
• Be flexible to work in all areas of the Store and the Yard and be able to cover both areas
• Ideally be able to drive a forklift truck with a valid forklift truck licence (desirable)
• Have a high level of spoken and written English fluency