Trading Assistant

**Trading Assistant**:
**Rate**:£12.45 per hour**
**Location**:Cromer Store, Cromer, NR27 9JW**
**Hours**:Part time, 25 hours per week**
**Contract type**:Permanent**
**Business area**:Retail**
**Requisition ID**:400000999***:
**Shift hours**
**25hrs per week, various shifts to be discussed at Interview. Must be available for shifts on Tuesday Evenings & Sundays.**:
**Working in our stores**:
Our stores are fast-paced environments where no two days are ever the same and food is our passion. They are at the heart of the local community providing outstanding value, unbeatable quality and great service. As one of our Trading Assistants, you’ll be the special ingredient that ensures our stores are set up brilliantly to give our customers everything they come to Sainsbury’s for.

**Eligibility**:

- You must be above the school-leaver age in your country School leaving age - GOV.UK
- You must have Right to Work eligibility in the UK
- If the shifts for this role cover hours earlier than 6am or later than 11pm, you will need to be at least 18 years of age.

**Availability Table**

**Days**

**From**

**To**
- Sunday
- 09:00
- 17:00
- Monday
- 07:00
- 22:00
- Tuesday
- 07:00
- 22:00
- Wednesday
- 07:00
- 22:00
- Thursday
- 07:00
- 22:00
- Friday
- 07:00
- 22:00
- Saturday
- 07:00
- 22:00

The weekly hours for this role will be scheduled within the times shown in the availability table above. We will schedule your confirmed weekly hours within these times and provide you with 3 weeks’ notice of when your shifts will be. We will discuss your availability and the hours you can work at interview.

**Working in our stores**:
Our stores are fast-paced environments where no two days are ever the same and food is our passion. They are at the heart of the local community providing outstanding value, unbeatable quality and great service. As one of our Trading Assistants, you’ll be the special ingredient that ensures our stores are set up brilliantly to give our customers everything they come to Sainsbury’s for.

**Day-to-day what you’ll be doing**:

- Working across the store, replenishing stock, serving customers on checkouts and keeping our shelves well-presented, clean and tidy
- Always being on-hand to serve our customers brilliantly, supporting with any questions, and proactively offering help
- Build great knowledge about our products, services and promotions to help provide recommendations
- Date checking fresh produce and grocery products

**What makes a great Sainsbury’s Colleague**:

- Friendly and welcoming with a genuine enthusiasm for helping customers
- Comfortable in a fast-paced and high energy environment, using initiative to solve problems and working collaboratively as part of a team
- Always ready to work flexibly and productively across the store - you’ll be fully trained in a variety of skills, so you have opportunities to learn and develop
- Confident in learning to use new technology to do your job brilliantly
- Have great attention to detail, keeping the store clean and clutter free to create the best shopping experience for our customers

**Working for us has great rewards**:
We truly value our colleagues and provide market-leading benefits and training to reflect that:

- **Discount card** - 10% off at Sainsbury’s, Argos, Tu, and Habitat after four weeks, increasing to 15% discount at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday, and 15% off at Argos every pay day
- **Free food and hot drinks** - provided for Colleagues in all our stores
- **Generous holiday entitlement** - based on the hours you work, plus maternity and paternity leave
- **Pension** - we’ll match between 4-7.5% of your pension contributions
- **Sainsbury’s share schemes** - buy Sainsbury’s shares at discounted prices
- **Shopping discounts** - special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more
- **Wellbeing support**- including free access to our Employee Assistance Programme which is a confidential service providing support and guidance on a wide range of issues

**Application process**:
**Stage 1**: Once you have applied for a role, you will need to create an account and then be asked a series of eligibility questions. If you pass these, you will be invited to watch a video about the role before completing an online skills-based assessment, which takes about 15 minutes.

**Stage 2**: If you are successful at this stage, you'll be informed if you are being invited to schedule a face-to-face interview, interviews will take place in the Argos Lowestoft Store.

We are committed to being a fully inclusive retailer where **everyone feels welcome - where our customers love to shop, and our colleagues love to work**.

**An inclusive place to work and shop**

We are dedicated to being a truly inclusive retailer, where every colleague can achieve their full potential, and every customer feels welcome when they shop with us.

To support this commitment, our colleagues may be entitled to a range of enhanced discret