Retail Sales Advisor

3 weeks ago


Darwen, United Kingdom Arco Full time

**About The Role**:
Don’t worry if you don’t know much about the health and safety industry or personal protective equipment (PPE), as we’ll teach you all there is to know, and provide you with a platform to learn, develop and grow.

You will also be required to provide holiday/sickness cover for our Vending Machine Operative who stocks our Arco vending machines on customer sites and liaises with customers and account managers to maintain high levels of service.

Key responsibilities include:

- Delivering outstanding levels of customer service
- Interacting with our customers, in store, on the phone and on customer visits, to promote our products and services
- Providing a great shopping environment for our customers ensuring our stores are clean, tidy and presentable - a store we can be really proud of
- Processing customer transactions and responding to customer enquiries using our bespoke IT software

On top of working for the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, you’ll also receive:

- £12 p/h plus up to 10% annual bonus
- 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays, plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days
- 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days (pro rata for part time) every year
- An excellent pension and 8x salary Life Assurance scheme
- A huge range of high street retailer discounts to help with cost of living via MyArco Perks
- Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
- Long-term service awards - we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years

About you

The ideal Retail Sales Advisor will be/have:

- Experience of working face to face with customers, preferably in a retail environment
- An understanding of what makes a great customer experience
- Be comfortable making promotional calls to business customers
- An understanding of IT systems to process transactions and respond to customer enquiries
- Flexibility to cover colleague shifts (team absence, holidays)

**About Us**: With almost 140 years of experience, Arco are recognised as the UK's leading safety experts. As the only integrated safety products and services business, our size, scale and reputation in the sector are why we have such an impressive portfolio of accounts and customers. We're the expert safety partner with a unique mix of specialist expertise and practical real-life industry knowledge. Our specialist safety services provide the technical services and specialist expertise for working at height, in confined spaces and with respiratory protection.

Following the appointment of our CEO in December 2022, we are now on a transformation journey to become more profitable and sustainable. This is an exciting and demanding time for the business. There is opportunity to shape and challenge the transformation journey and future growth, while balance the pressure to deliver sales growth and financial targets that are necessary to support the future growth. Our behaviours; Care, Collaborate, Perform and Deliver, are embedded within our culture, to drive performance and ensure we succeed together and are rewarded for that shared success. Because It’s on us. To deliver. Together.

Everyone is welcome at Arco, no matter who you are. Our business is fully committed to creating a truly inclusive, diverse and equal working environment for all of our employees, as well as our customers and suppliers. Diversity, equity, and inclusiveness are fully embedded in our culture and talent acquisition processes. We recognise that everyone is different, and hiring people from a wide variety of backgrounds will only make us stronger.


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