Retail Shop Assistant (Penicuik)

Retail Store Assistant

£12.71 per hour plus benefits

• Contract: Permanent
• Working hours: Part time 15 hours per week (Flexible - over 6 days trading)
• Location: Penicuik Shop
• Reports to: Shop manager
• Department: Trading
• Closing date: 30th August :55
• Internal title: Shop Assistant

What will I be doing?

• Providing excellent customer and supporter service.
• Working as an integral part of the shop team to achieve ambitious sales and fundraising targets.
• Assisting with maintaining shop standards including visual presentation, safeguarding compliance and health and safety.
• Creating relationships with your local community and Cancer Research UK colleagues.
• Supporting fundraising events for your store to achieve fundraising targets.
• Taking keyholder responsibility as required (training provided).
• There will be a varied amount of manual handling and physical activity required within the day-to-day duties of the role.

What are you looking for?

• An understanding of what makes great customer service.
• Experience of working in a busy customer service environment.
• The ability to manage your own workload and work independently when required.
• The ability to work well in a team.
• Excellent communication skills.

Flexibility, our retail teams cover the needs of their stores by working on a rota basis. Whilst a level of flexibility is needed to meet the needs of the business, we don't forget that you have a life outside of work too.

We make sure you are supported by a generous salary and benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.

Benefits

• A substantial retirement plan.
• A generous and flexible leave allowance.
• Discounts on anything from travel to technology.
• Gym membership.
• Much more.
• Access to confidential wellbeing support from the Retail Trust.

Our work - from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy - will change the world. It's exciting to be part of our team.

This role will remain open for internal applications until 30th August :55.

We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented.

We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen.

Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.

We are the world's leading cancer charity, dedicated to saving and improving lives with our research. We work to reduce the impact of cancer on people's day-to-day lives through our research, influence and information. We are beating cancer - step by step, day by day. Our work means that people with cancer live better lives through earlier diagnosis and kinder, more effective treatments.

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You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

Any offer of employment for this role will be subject to a satisfactory basic DBS check.