Retail Assistant - Part Time

Retail Assistant - Part Time

• Hours: 16 hours across 4 days per week.
• Pay: £10.95 £12.81 per hour.
• Benefits: 6 weeks holiday, 15% staff discount, staff benefits package, and more!

We are looking to recruit a new retail assistant for our shop in Kirkcaldy, Fife. We offer a permanent part time position working a variety of shifts, with a minimum of 16 hours worked over 4 days from each week, including weekends.

Pay & benefits

• Pay rates depend on age:
  • years old: £10.95 per hour
  • 21+ years old: £12.81 per hour
• 6 weeks holiday each year.
• Great training and development opportunities.
• 15% staff discount usable in any of our 300+ shops.
• A smart uniform.
• Free life assurance.
• A staff benefits package that includes a virtual GP, discounted services and products such as cinema tickets, gym memberships, days out and travel.

As one of our retail assistants you will:

• Make all customers feel welcome with a friendly smile and simple hello.
• Help customers find the items they are looking for.
• Give a fast and friendly service at the tills, always offering help to pack and leaving a good impression with a friendly thank you and goodbye.
• Handle stock with care whilst working deliveries, quickly placing products into our freezers and onto shelves ready for customers to buy.
• Work with the rest of the team to complete daily and weekly routines that keep our shop safe, clean and tidy.

You will need:

• A friendly, positive, hard working approach to work.
• To enjoy being busy as there is always something to do-jumping from putting out deliveries to serving on the till, helping customers on the shop floor, completing cleaning and stock rotation routines and more.
• Reliability, as you will be an important part of a small team and dependents will rely on you to do your best on each shift.
• A bit of flexibility with shifts; rota's are planned three weeks in advance and your commitments outside of work will be taken into consideration when planning your shifts.

Many people come to us for a part time job to earn a bit of money while they are studying at school, college or university and others find that it fits in well around other commitments like raising a family.

If you decide to stay, there are many opportunities for a career at Farmfoods. We have training programmes and always look to promote to shop and area manager positions from within. Many management and central services positions at Farmfoods started with our shops, so this could be the start of a rewarding career for you.

A bit about us:

Farmfoods is a family business with ambition. We pride ourselves on offering great value, quality products from clean and tidy shops with the friendliest team in retail. We aim to deliver an old fashioned, genuine and friendly customer experience.

Our retail assistants serve hundreds of customers each week and are the face of Farmfoods for our customers.

Contract information

Position: PTRA, Hours: 16, Days: 4