Retail Assistant - Part Time, Early Starts in Forfar

Hours: 12 hours across 4 days per week.

Pay: £10.10 - £12.31 per hour.

Benefits:

• 6 weeks holiday
• 15% staff discount
• Staff benefits package

We are looking to recruit a new retail assistant for our shop in Forfar, Angus. We offer a permanent part-time position working a variety of shifts, with a minimum of 12 hours worked over 4 days each week, including weekends. Please note that this position will require you to be available for shifts starting early in the morning. It may not be suitable if you aren’t available for early morning work.

Pay & Benefits:

The amount you will earn depends on your age:

• Ages 16-20 = £10.10 per hour
• Ages 21+ = £12.31 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
• 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 our shelves ready for 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
• To enjoy being busy as there is always something to do – from deliveries to till work, helping customers on the shop floor, completing important cleaning and stock rotation routines and more
• To be reliable as you will be an important part of the team
• A bit of flexibility when it comes to your shifts. When other members of your team are off enjoying their holidays, we may need you to work slightly different hours to cover for them. Rotas are planned three weeks in advance and your commitments outside of work will always be taken into consideration when planning your shifts

More than just a job:

Many people come to us for a part-time job to earn a bit of money whilst 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 stick around then there are many opportunities for a career at Farmfoods. We have some great training programmes and always look to promote to Shop and Area Manager positions from within. Many people in management and central services positions at Farmfoods started their careers in our shops, so this could be the start of a rewarding career for you.

A bit about us:

Farmfoods are 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 offer sensational value to customers on a great range of everyday family-oriented goods. We back up our sensational value with a focus on delivering a genuine and friendly customer experience. Our Retail Assistants are very important. They each serve hundreds of customers each week and have the reputation of Farmfoods in their hands. To our customers, they are Farmfoods.