Are you looking for a flexible part-time job? Whether you’re a student or simply want to earn extra income, this could be the perfect role for you!
Farmfoods in Manchester is seeking a Retail Assistant to join the team. This role involves a variety of tasks, including stocking deliveries, assisting customers, operating the tills, and maintaining store cleanliness. A positive attitude, strong work ethic, and ability to handle multiple responsibilities are essential.
About Farmfoods
As a well-established, family-run business, Farmfoods offers a friendly and supportive work environment. If you enjoy staying busy and working as part of a team, apply today!
Farmfoods has been serving Great Britain for over 60 years, growing from a small butcher shop in Aberdeen to a network of over 300 stores and four distribution centres nationwide. The company is committed to offering customers the best value on everyday groceries and household essentials.
As a family-owned business, Farmfoods is led by its owners, who are actively involved in its daily operations. The company values a hands-on approach, fostering a diverse team of around 4,000 employees across distribution centres, retail stores, and offices. Each team member is trusted to take responsibility and deliver a simple, efficient, and friendly shopping experience.
With a strong focus on affordability and efficiency, Farmfoods prioritizes cost-saving measures to ensure customers continue to enjoy great value. The stores are designed for functionality, allowing for a quick and hassle-free shopping experience, reinforcing the company’s long-term commitment to providing quality products at the best prices.
Position: Retail Assistant
Salary: £9.40 – £11.54 per hour
Job Type: Part time
Location: Manchester, UK
About the Role
We are looking to recruit a new retail assistant for our shop in Longsight, Greater Manchester. We offer a permanent part time position working a variety of shifts, with a minimum of 20 hours worked over 4 days from 7 each week, including weekends.
Please note that this position will require you to be available for shifts starting early in the morning. This position may not be suitable for you if you are not available for early morning work.
Pay & benefits:
The amount that you will earn depends on your age:
Ages 16-20 = £9.40 per hour
Ages 21+ = £11.54 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.
Main Duties
- Make all of our customers feel welcome with a friendly smile and simple hello.
- Help customers find the items that 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 our 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.
Qualifications
You will need
- A friendly, positive, hard working approach to work.
- To enjoy being busy as there is always something to do. You’ll jump from putting out deliveries to serving on the till, 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 a small team. Your colleagues and customers will depend upon to do your best on each shift and not let the team down.
- 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. Rota’s 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.
Required Documents
- CV/Resume
- Cover Letter
Application Process
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Application Deadline
Open until filled