Seasonal Retail Sales Assistant
Fixed Term Contract - ending on 31st December 2025. There is often potential for us to take on seasonal colleagues on a permanent basis after the initial festive contract.
Contract type: 8 hour contract.
Overview
As a Seasonal Sales Assistant, you’ll join our merry crew and help make this holiday season the best one yet. You will be the heart of our retail store during the peak period, welcoming customers with a friendly smile and inspiring them to read, learn, create, or play. The role involves managing deliveries and seasonal stock; the work can be physically demanding, including stairs and heavy stock, but you will have the support of a crafty, caring, and can-do team.
Joining us during this period is a great way to benefit from our 25% colleague discount to help in the run up to the holiday season.
Responsibilities
* Excite and delight customers with friendly service and inspire them to read, learn, create, or play with our products.
* Act as a Loyalty Ambassador by helping customers plan gifts and showing value for money at The Works.
* Follow planograms for key product areas and use creativity in non-planogrammed spaces to catch the eye.
* Manage deliveries, price and label products, and ensure stockroom organization and stock display on the shop floor.
* Be authentic, engage with customers, and contribute to a positive store environment.
Skills and Behaviours
* Genuine and authentic: positivity, creativity, and a passion for our brand and products; strong customer service and recommendations.
* Resilient champion: able to handle fast-paced retail environments, multitask during busy periods, and manage heavy deliveries.
* Stock management: capable of sorting, pricing, and merchandising deliveries effectively.
Culture and Values
Our atmosphere is supportive, friendly, inclusive, and energizing. We are one team, with a hands-on approach to inspiring our customers and supporting each other. We aim to inspire reading, learning, creativity and play, making lives more fulfilled, and we value diversity and inclusion. We are open to discussions around working hours and flexible working, and we will provide reasonable adjustments for interviews where needed.
Time well spent: with the right passion, It All Starts With You. Our values include Crafty, Caring, and Can-do.
Benefits
* 25% Colleague Discount.
* My Works - exclusive online discounts across hundreds of retailers, holidays, utility deals, tech and more.
* Can-Do Academy - access to courses and training.
* Stream - early access to a portion of wages as you earn them.
* 24/7 support for you and your family via our partnership with Retail Trust Charity.
Employment Type
* Part-time
Seniority level
* Entry level
EEO statement: We are proud to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels able to be themselves. Roles are open to all, including under-represented groups. We support reasonable adjustments for interviews where needed.
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