Fixed Term Contract - ending on 31st December 2025.
Seasonal Retail Sales Assistant
4 hour contract
Overview
Become a Seasonal Retail Sales Assistant and join our festive team to support the peak period. You will welcome customers with a friendly smile and inspire them to read, learn, create, or play. The role can be physically demanding with deliveries and stock to manage.
Why The Works?
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We don’t just sell products. We inspire reading, learning, creativity and play. You sell the paint that turns someone into an artist. You provide the book that unleashes an inner author. You supply the games that help bring families together. You give someone the puzzle book that reconnects them with a late family member’s memory. The unseen possibilities are limitless, and it all starts with you.
Perks
* 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 50% of your wages as you earn them
* 24/7 support for you and your family through Retail Trust Employee Assistance Programme
Becoming a Seasonal Retail Sales Assistant
As a Seasonal Sales Assistant, you’ll join our team during the holiday season, welcoming customers and encouraging engagement with our products. You’ll help manage seasonal stock and deliveries, and work with a supportive team. A discount is available during the peak period.
Our Culture
The Works is an inclusive, supportive, and energetic environment where you can be your authentic self. We value teamwork and hands-on collaboration to inspire our customers and support each other.
Your Festive Mission
* Excite and Delight: Provide friendly service and inspire customers to read, learn, create, or play with our products
* Loyalty Ambassador: Help customers enjoy a well-spent Christmas and maximize value
* Merchandising Marvel: Follow planograms for key product areas and creatively stage non-planogrammed spaces
* Deliveries: Manage heavy deliveries, price and label products, and keep stockrooms organized
* Have fun: Be authentic and connect with brand, colleagues, and customers
Skills / Behaviours
* Genuine and authentic: Positivity, creativity, and passion for our brand
* Resilient champion: Thrive in a fast-paced retail environment and multitask
* Stock magician: Sort, price, and merchandise deliveries confidently
Remember, you’re part of the festive team and helping to make the season merry and bright.
Our Values
To inspire reading, learning, creativity and play - making lives more fulfilled
We are Crafty | Caring | Can-do
Promoting Diversity, Inclusion, and Applying Reasonable Adjustments. Our roles are open to all, including under-represented groups. We support flexible working where possible and will consider reasonable adjustments for interviews.
We don’t just sell products. We inspire reading, learning, creativity and play. Because when people spend time doing what they love, it’s Time Well Spent. And with the right passion - It All Starts With You.
Additional
* Seniority level: Entry level
* Employment type: Part-time
* Job function: Sales and Business Development
* Industries: Retail
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