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Employer description
The Works is the UK's leading family friendly retailer of books and arts and crafts materials for all ages. We are currently recruiting for a part time Retail Sales Assistant for our store in Bury St Edmunds
Main description
This role is 8 hours per week
As a Retail Sales Assistant at The Works, you’ll discover that this is not just a job. This is a mission to inspire people to read, learn, create and play!
You’ll be the heartbeat of our retail store by greeting customers with a warm smile and helping them leave happy and excited to unlock their imaginations. Your passion and enthusiasm for our brand and products will be contagious and motivating. Our customers will want to return, time and time again for more inspiration and products that satisfy their creative needs.
Keyholder Responsibilities
For 18+ age, you’ll join as a keyholder. Our Retail Sales Assistants support our Store Management team to keep the stores running like clockwork by opening, closing, and running the store when needed, (holidays, days off, sickness etc), but don’t worry we’ll train you to do this.
There are a lot of valuable skills to learn here that will benefit you in the future. You’ll also receive our additional keyholding pay enhancement when holding keys.
*Under 18?
If you're under 18, you won't be able to complete keyholding duties just yet, but when you reach your 18th birthday, you can be set up for training so that you can earn the additional keyholding pay enhancement when on keyholder duties.
Skills Required
Genuine and authentic: Showing your positivity, creativity, and passion for our brand and products. Customer service, friendly and helpful
Resilient champion: Ability to handle the fast-paced retail environment, juggling busy days, heavy deliveries, and customers with ease.
Stock magician: Able to tackle the puzzle of sorting, pricing, and merchandising deliveries
Benefits
- 25% Colleague Discount! - Plus, exclusive Double Discount days!
- MyWorks - Access exclusive online discounts across hundreds of retailers, holidays, utilities deals, tech and more!
- Holiday – 28 days including bank holidays, or 33 days including bank holidays for Deputy and Store Managers.
- Can-Do Academy - Grow your skills and career with instant access to further training and development in areas that interest you.
- Wagestream - Claim early access to 50% of your wages as you earn them – for when ‘life’ happens!
- Share Scheme - Unleash your inner Monopoly mogul and own a piece of The Works!
- 24/7 support for you and your family - Through our partnership with Retail Trust Charity, who provide an Employee Assistance Programme and so much more!
- Healthcare Cash Plan – To support your everyday healthcare costs.
- And loads more! – Long service awards, pension, life assurance, Cycle to Work scheme and optional charity giving.
Each year, we run an anonymous colleague engagement survey. This is so important for us to hear your feedback and suggestions. We want to know what’s going great, and what needs a couple of tweaks to help make The Works the best place you’ve ever worked! You’ll have opportunity to help give us that direction.
Closing Date
The closing date for this job offer is on 18/10/2024
Salary
TBC
Location
This job is located in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
More Information and How to Apply
About West Suffolk College
West Suffolk College is an ambitious vocational and academic College, with a stunning main campus set in the heart of Bury St Edmunds. We are committed to providing outstanding education to all our students.
