Store Colleague

**Haverfordwest - 16 Hours**: Join the Pets at Home Group, where you'll enjoy a **competitive base pay**, with **opportunities to earn the Real Living Wage (or more)** through our Earn As You Learn training programmes, as well as being able to achieve **additional pay supplements** through extra training. At Pets at Home, we have an ambitious plan to become "**The Best Pet Care Business in the world**", and a key part of delivering this in a sustainable way will be our **most cherished assets**:our People and our Culture**. We are a business built on strong values and behaviours which guide everything we do. These are the foundations that will help us to deliver **Our Better World Pledge**, to create a better world for pets and the people who love them. We are delighted to have recently won "**Best Place to Work**" and "**Best Retailer**" at the Retail Week Awards These are prestigious awards within the Retail Industry, and we couldn't be prouder to be winners. We were also shortlisted in three 2021 Personnel Today Award categories, including "**Employee Benefits Award"**, **"Family Friendly Employer of the Year"**, and we were also winners of the "**HR Team of the Year award**" The Pets at Home Group includes over 450 stores, over 310 Groom Rooms and 440 First Opinion Vet Practices. It's fast-paced, innovative, fun, and we put people at the very heart of everything we do. **Our culture is friendly and inclusive.** Each one of our teams is unique because we welcome everyone, and everyone can be themselves. If you share our belief that together 'we're better with pets', we'd like to hear from you, whatever your background or circumstances. **Click **here** to read our Values & Behaviours** **Your role** will be at the heart of our stores, and you will ensure our customers have a great experience that sets us apart and drives customer loyalty for our great brands. Our **Store Colleagues** are critical to the success of our business. They are responsible for exceeding our customer's expectations daily, ensuring the highest standard of pet care, brilliant operational standards, and building strong relationships with our customers and colleagues. **We will give you the training, skills, and knowledge** to provide our customers with service that reflects our goals of being the 'Best Pet Care Business in the World'. - Passionate about delivering great service - Flexible. Due to the nature of working within a busy retail environment, we need you to have the ability to work a flexible shift pattern across 7 days a week. You will receive a **minimum contract of 16 hours**, but you will often be required to work more hours to cover busy periods, absences, and holidays. - Experienced in a customer-facing environment - Experienced in achieving stretching targets - Ready to take on 12 months of industry-leading training covering all the key aspects of the role, handling and caring for Pets, Customer Service and Health and Safety. **Your Benefits** **We reward and recognise our store colleagues in ways that matter to them.** Our benefits reflect our support of your mental, emotional, and financial wellbeing, both now and in the future. Here are some of our benefits which may be available to you: - A discretional **annual bonus** **scheme available to all hourly paid store colleagues** - ** Paid Holidays**: all colleagues will receive **at least 28* days paid annual leave**, which will rise to **33* days after 2 years **(*this includes 8 bank holidays and will be pro-rata calculated on your contracted hours. - ** The company will contribute at least 3.5% of your salary to your company pension plan**, and most colleagues can also take advantage of our salary sacrifice pension scheme too. - ** Refer a friend.** If you recommend a role to someone you know, and they are offered and accept the role, you will receive **£250 per placement**. - We've given all colleagues access to **recognise and** **celebrate your teams and colleagues'** achievements through peer-to-peer e-cards on our online recognition and benefits platform. You can also nominate your colleagues or teams to win colleague or team of the month - ** Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave.** - ** An additional day's paid leave** for your Birthday. - ** An additional day's paid leave** to welcome your new pet into your family, which we like to call your "Pet-ernity" day (if you have a new dog, horse, or cat in the family) - ** An additional day's paid leave** to carry out Your Better World Pledge day, which enables colleagues to provide significant value and non-financial support to pets, people and our planet within their local community. - ** An additional week's paid leave** (pro-rata) to celebrate your wedding or civil partnership. - A **gift **from us if you are expecting or adopting a baby. - ** Long service awards and gifts** to celebrate service anniversaries between 5 - 30 years.- ** Colleague discounts** for all