Garden Centre Assistant

3 days ago

Sudbury, United Kingdom Perrywood Garden Centre & Nurseries Ltd Full time

**Garden Centre Assistant**

**Full-time (5 days a week, to include one day at the weekend)**

Working with our retail area supporting our sales and till assistants; we are looking for motivated individuals who can follow instructions and communicate with customers. You will support our mission to offer a memorable garden centre experience; delivering wow customer service and giving employees, customers, suppliers and community a reason to smile.

**Rewards and Benefits**

In addition to the hourly wage, you will receive the following benefits:

- **Discount **- Discount - From the start of your employment you will receive 10% discount on specific items. Following a successful probation period the discount increases up to 20% discount on specific items and after one years service up to 40% discount on specific items. (some exceptions apply)
- **Annual Christmas bonus**:

- **Part-uniform provided**:

- **Employee Assistant Programme** - a confidential personal and professional support service available to all employees and their immediate families 24/7, 365 days a year.
- **Training & development**, as required. We have an e-learning scheme called GROW, and also take part in other training with product suppliers and external trainers
- **Company sick pay** - following a successful probation period employees are entitled to 10 days paid sickness (part-time pro rata)
- **Access to our Retail Discount Scheme** - savings on retailers including Tesco, Pizza Express, M&S, Waitrose, Argos, Apple, Currys PC World, Thomas Cook and 100’s more
- **Workplace pension**:

- **Free parking**

**Key duties**
- Moving trolleys, throughout the day you will be collecting empty trolleys from the car park and returning them to the shop areas
- Assisting customers by carrying purchases to their vehicles, particularly with heavy or bulky items, helping load into cars and answering basic queries
- Moving stock from the warehouse and moving promotional materials and displays
- Maintaining the cleanliness of the garden centre and stock areas, carrying out cleaning duties and minor maintenance works

**Your capabilities**
- Good verbal communication skills, and customer service skills, confident in dealing with members of the public
- Able to follow instructions from your supervisors, and work on your own initiative
- You are able to lift, carry or move products and purchases (e.g. large compost bags, stone garden pots, garden furniture etc.)

**Requirements**:

- You’ll need to work one alternating day each weekend - Saturday one weekend, Sunday the next
- You’ll need to work some bank holidays (as part of a rota with other assistants)

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £7.49-£10.59 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Employee discount

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Supplemental pay types:

- Yearly bonus

Application question(s):

- Due to our rural location and limited access to public transport how would you be travelling to work?

**Experience**:

- Customer Service: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Garden Centre Assistant - Sudbury

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