Retail Assistant - Part Time

Retail Assistant - Part Time

We are looking to recruit a new retail assistant for our shop in Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf. We offer a permanent part time position working a variety of shifts, with a minimum of 8 hours worked over 2 days from 7 each week, including weekends.

Key Details

• Hours: 8 hours across 2 days per week.
• Pay: £10.95-£12.81 per hour.
• Benefits: 6 weeks holiday, 15% staff discount, staff benefits package, and more!

Pay & Benefits

The amount you will earn depends on your age:

• Ages 16-20: £10.95 per hour
• Ages 21+: £12.81 per hour

In addition to your pay you will also benefit from:

• 6 weeks holiday each year.
• Great training and development opportunities.
• 15% staff discount to use in any of our 300+ shops on a great range of food and household essentials.
• A smart uniform.
• Free life assurance.
• A staff benefits package which includes a virtual GP as well as discounted services and products such as cinema tickets, gym memberships, days out and travel.

Responsibilities

• Make all of our customers feel welcome with a friendly smile and simple hello.
• Help customers find the items they are looking for.
• Give 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 while working deliveries, quickly placing products into our freezers and onto our shelves ready for our customers to buy.
• Work with the rest of your team to complete the daily and weekly routines that keep our shops safe, clean and tidy.

Requirements

• A friendly, positive, hard working approach to work.
• Enthusiastic about being busy, jumping from deliveries to the till, helping customers, completing cleaning and stock rotation routines and more.
• Reliable, as you will be an important part of a small team. Your colleagues and customers will depend upon you to do your best on each shift and not let the team down.
• Some flexibility with your shifts. When other members of your team are off, we may need you to work slightly different hours to cover for them. Rota's are planned three weeks in advance and your commitments outside of work will always be taken into consideration when planning your shifts.

Career Opportunities

Many people find this role fits around other commitments such as study or family. If you decide to stick around, there are many opportunities for a career at Farmfoods. We have great training programmes and always look to promote to Shop and Area Manager positions from within.

About Farmfoods

Farmfoods is a family business with ambition. We pride ourselves on offering our customers 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.

Contract Information

Position: PTRA, Hours: 8, Days: 2