Sales Assistant

2 weeks ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom The Works Stores Ltd Full time

**Pay rate**:NMW plus additional £0.28p when completing Key Holder duties.

**Contracted hours: 12 hours per week **_(Fully flexible including early, afternoon, late nights & weekends)_**

**_ Availability required: (Monday through to Sunday_**_)_**

**Please Note** - If you are under 18, you won't be able to complete keyholding duties and hold keys, instead you'll join us as a 'sales assistant' until you reach your 18th birthday, when you'll upgrade to a keyholder.

**_About us_**

The Works is a unique place towellwork.

We’re the UK’s leading family friendly retailer of value gifts, arts, crafts, toys, books and stationery. With over 530 stores nationwide together with a brilliant online store, we’re here to offer our customers a unique and enjoyable shopping experience, built on our core principles of value, variety and quality.

We’re a proactive and hardworking bunch. We’ve built an environment that’s busy, fast-moving and full of energy. Our atmosphere is welcoming, friendly and inclusive. If you’re the kind of person who’s as crafty, caring and can-do as we are, then this is the kind of culture for you.

As a Sales Assistant with The Works, you will be working as part of a small and close-knit team. You will be living our values of being “Crafty”, “Caring” and showing a real “Can-do” attitude to deliver the best possible service to our customers.

We will invest time and money back in you with dedicated training, and surrounding you with a great support network.

We are extremely proud of our position in the marketplace and we know our success comes from our family of colleagues; you will be at the heart of your store, making a difference to your team.

**What we want from you**:

- To be enthusiastic and want to create a fun place to shop.
- Be creative and crafty - you will learn some amazing ways to merchandise and demonstrate our wonderful products.
- To be dedicated to improve on what we currently do. We appreciate that at all levels our employees bring with them some amazing ideas.

**What you can expect from us**
- Excellent hands on training.
- 25% discount off our products in store
- 33 or 28 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays).
- Company pension contribution.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Life Assurance.
- Healthcare Cash Plan.
- Charity Giving - Pennies from Heaven and Give as you Earn.

About The Works:
We are very proud to be a Sunday Times 2020 Top 25 “Best Big Companies” to work for.

At The Works, we are a family Our stores are fun to be in and jam packed with great products that our customers love...and so do we Our mission is to offer customers a unique and enjoyable shopping experience, built on our core principles of value, variety and quality.

The Works is one of the UK’s leading multi-channel specialist retailers of value gifts, arts, crafts, toys, books and stationery. We are a high street retailer that bucks the trend, constantly growing and opening new stores at an amazing rate.

We sell high-quality, great value products in four specialist categories, primarily through our network of over 500 stores in the UK & Ireland. We also have a significant and growing online presence that enables customers to shop any time of the day and an extended range of products that are not available in our stores. Our multi-channel offering, one of the first of its kind in the value retail sector, includes our popular Click & Collect service, offering further convenience for our customers.


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