Retail & Merchandising Team Member

Here at **Mainsgill Farmshop** we are on the search for new retail **Retail & Merchandising Assistants**to join our growing team.

**Benefits**:

- Lunch is provided during break
- Free secure parking
- Employee discount (after probation period)

**What Mainsgill Farm offers for our team members**:

- Excellent competitive hourly rates of pay. Pay dependent upon skill
- Sociable daytime hours, 9:00am start - 5:00pm finish
- No split shifts
- No evening work
- To work 5 days each week
- No rota, set days each week (allowing you to plan day-off activities ahead)
- Guaranteed agreed hours week in, week out (no zero-hour contracts)
- Potential to progress within the business
- Overtime available during peak-seasons

**Main responsibilities include**:

- Working on the checkouts and delivering high standards of customer service
- Maintaining high standards of visual displays
- Maintaining high standards of cleanliness of shop floor
- Keeping work place clear and tidy at all times
- Creating and maintaining retail displays
- Dealing with new deliveries, checking items and pricing ready for the shop floor.
- Replenishing stock on the shop floor throughout the working day
- Stock management

**We are looking for individuals who**:

- Can deliver high standards of customer service
- Can work well with others in a team
- Can communicate well with others
- Can listen to instructions/tasks and complete efficiently
- Have attention to detail and ensure pricing/stock is correct
- Are reliable
- Enthusiastic
- Enjoy working in a busy environment
- Are highly motivated
- Have a positive can-do attitude
- Has excellent time management

Located on our first floor, our gift and clothing hall hosts a wide range of unique and household brands including Barbour, Joules, Seasalt, White Stuff, Sophie Allport and Wrendale Designs. With our new expansion we now stock many more popular and unique brands; Emma Bridgewater, Jellycat and Arran cosmetics.

Attention to detail is key - we create unique retail displays in-house and are continually adding new products each week to the shop floor. Our local customers visit frequently, and love to see our new displays and products throughout the year. Our customers from further afield visit us seasonally throughout the year so they love to see our extravagant festive displays at Christmas, and bright coloured homewares during the summer months. A continual change and impeccable upkeep of displays and stock is a must to ensure the best shopping experience for each customer.

Learning is very hands-on, and our experienced established team members will guide you throughout. Our retail areas provide potential to learn, grow and to become a part of the family retail/hospitality business. Our established team is made up of around 50 members, with majority working for ten's of years within the business.

Located on the A66, 4 miles west of Scotch Corner in Richmond North Yorkshire, we are a family-run, award winning flagship farmshop and tearoom which continues to grow each year. We use our own home-reared meats from the family farm in our tearoom, as well as quality local produce. Our farmshop is brimming with our homemade produce from our artisan kitchen, home-reared meats from the farm, and a vast range of unique food and drinks. We pride ourselves on providing the highest standards of customer service, and all our team working together to go the extra mile for each visitor.

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

Pay: £12.21-£13.75 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking

Application question(s):

- Can you drive? (There is no public transport to Mainsgill Farmshop)
- Can you work weekends? (Every member of our team works either a Sunday or Saturday each week)

Work Location: In person