At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide excellent customer service and support fundraising efforts in a vibrant retail environment.
- Company: Join Cancer Research UK, a leading charity dedicated to beating cancer.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, flexible leave, discounts, and personal development opportunities.
- Other info: Flexible working hours and a supportive team culture await you.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in your community while gaining valuable retail experience.
- Qualifications: Customer service experience and strong communication skills are essential.
The predicted salary is between 12.71 - 12.71 £ per hour.
Cancer Research UK is looking for a motivated store assistant to join our trading team. You will be acting as an ambassador for Cancer Research UK, helping your community understand our brand and the great things we do.
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).
- Engaging in 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, as our retail teams cover the needs of their stores by working on a rota basis.
What will I gain?
We offer 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. Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on travel, technology, gym membership, and more.
Our retail teams also have access to confidential wellbeing support from the Retail Trust. We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; however, we won’t view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to assess you quickly, fairly and objectively.
Owing to the nature of this position, any offer of employment will be subject to a satisfactory basic DBS check. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, particularly those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented.
Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, to protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.
Retail Shop Assistant (Belfast Superstore, Northern Ireland) Tlnt1_Ni employer: Cancer Research UK
Cancer Research UK is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment in Stratford, London, where you can make a meaningful impact on health partnerships. With a strong emphasis on employee well-being, we provide flexible working arrangements and a comprehensive benefits package that supports a healthy work/life balance, alongside ample opportunities for professional growth and development within the organisation.
