Sales Assistant

Avoca; Dublin; On-site; EUR 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Daytime Hours

Pension Scheme

Professional Development

Employee Assistance Programme

Employee Referral Bonus

Family Friendly Policies

Life Assurance Benefit

Cycle To Work Scheme

Health & Wellness Programmes

Job summary

Avoca Suffolk Street in Dublin’s city centre is seeking an experienced Sales Assistant to join our team. This permanent full-time role requires a passion for customer service and retail experience.

You will help customers, handle tills, and contribute to a welcoming store environment. We value cleanliness, teamwork, and a positive attitude.

Join Avoca and enjoy daytime hours, development opportunities, and a range of staff benefits.

Qualifications

• Cleanliness and organization are essential.
• Experience in a physically demanding environment is desirable.
• Excellent timekeeping is a key requirement.
• Effective teamwork and communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standards of customer service in person and via phone.
• Assist customers in a retail setting and manage tills and payments.
• Offer good food/retail product knowledge.
• Handle opening and closing duties as directed.

Skills

Food Product Knowledge

Retail Experience

Passion for Customer Service

Job description

Avoca operates 13 Stores locations, a Central Bakery & Kitchen, Central Stores, and a Weaving Production Mill. After all this time, the ethos of Avoca remains the same. We cherish our time-honoured traditions, which have been lovingly passed down through several generations. Today, there are third generation weavers working at the Mill. Our skills might be steeped in a long and rich tradition, but our attitude is to look to the future. Now heralded as one of Ireland's most exciting retail stores, there are Avoca ceramics, clothing, perfumes, soaps and more from our own design studio. We have a host of award-winning cafes and restaurants, Food Markets crammed with artisanal ingredients from near and far, as well as a best-selling range of Avoca cookbooks. There are also gardens to explore at many of our stores, as well as florists and garden centres. The list goes on. And all of this from a modest hand weaving mill, established in a rural Irish village in 1723.

We're looking for an experienced Sales Assistant to join our team in our gorgeous city center location, Avoca Suffolk Street. The ideal candidate will have previous experience in a similar role and be available to start immediately. This role is permanent full-time.

Responsibilities

• Customer Service - A high standard of customer service is required for the role, Including assisting customers in person, via phone etc.
• Previous experience working in a retail setting desirable.
• Till use - scanning items and taking payments, managing queues in a timely manner.
• Good food/retail Product knowledge
• Opening and closing duties as outlined by your line manager

Requirements

• Cleanliness/Organization is essential in this role
• Experience working in a physically demanding environment
• Excellent timekeeping is a key requirement
• Effective teamwork and communication skills is essential

Skills:

• Food Product Knowledge
• Retail Experience
• Passion for Customer Service

Why work with us?

We're always on the lookout for like-minded folks to join our merry flock of men and women. So, apart from coming to work with your amazing teammates every day, we also offer the following benefits:

• Daytime Hours
• Pension Scheme
• Professional Development
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Family Friendly Policies
• Life Assurance Benefit
• Cycle To Work Scheme
• Health & Wellness Programmes

Avoca is an equal opportunities employer