Fixed Term Contract - ending on 31st December 2025. There is often potential for seasonal colleagues to transfer to a permanent basis after the initial festive contract.
Seasonal Retail Sales Assistant
Contract type: 4 hour contract
Why The Works?
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.
Our perks are "The Works":
* 🎅 25% Colleague Discount
* 🎄 My Works – Exclusive online discounts across hundreds of retailers, holidays, utility deals, tech and more
* 🎁 Can-Do Academy – Instant access to courses and training in areas that interest you
* ⛄ Stream – Access to 50% of your wages as you earn them
* 💙 24/7 support for you and your family through Retail Trust Charity
Become a Seasonal Retail Sales Assistant
As a Seasonal Sales Assistant, you’ll join our team and help make this holiday season the best yet. You will support our peak period, welcome customers with a friendly smile, and inspire them to read, learn, create, or play. You may manage deliveries and seasonal stock; the role can be physically demanding, including stairs and heavy stock. Our supportive team will help where needed.
Joining us during this period is a great way to enjoy the 25% colleague discount.
Our Culture
The Works is an inclusive, supportive place to work where you can be your authentic self. We value teamwork, and we encourage collaboration to inspire our customers and support one another.
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 have a joyful Christmas and get the best value from The Works
* Merchandising Marvel: Follow planograms for key product areas and creatively adapt in non-planogrammed spaces
* Deliveries: Manage heavy deliveries, price and label products, and maintain organized stock displays
* Have fun: Be your best, authentic elf-self and engage with our brand, colleagues, and customers
Skills / Behaviours That Will Set You Apart
* Genuine and authentic: Positivity, creativity, and passion for our brand shine through; you enjoy talking to people and helping customers
* Resilient champion: Thrive in a fast-paced retail environment, juggle busy days, and handle deliveries and customers with ease
* Stock magician: Sort, price, and merchandise deliveries efficiently
Our Values
We inspire reading, learning, creativity and play to make lives more fulfilled. We are Crafty, Caring, and Can-do. We promote diversity, inclusion, and reasonable adjustments. We welcome all, including under-represented groups, and support flexible working where possible.
We don’t just sell products. We inspire reading, learning, creativity and play. When people spend time doing what they love, it’s Time Well Spent, and it all starts with you.
Seniority level: Entry level
Employment type: Part-time
Job function: Sales and Business Development
Industries: Retail
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