Trading Assistant

**Trading Assistant - Shift**:
**Rate**:£12.60 per hour**
**Location**:Bourne Store, Bourne, PE10 9NJ**
**Hours**:Part time, 11.33 hours per week**
**Contract type**:Fixed-Term Assignment**
**Business area**:Retail**
**Requisition ID**:400026765***:
**Shift hours**
**Seasonal position on Twilight team. Looking for full availability and flexibility across a 7 day week with Christmas and New Year working expected for this role.**
**Early shift**:16:00 - 22:00**
**Late shift**:17:00 - 23:00**
**Night shift**:19:00 - 01:00**:
**Working in our stores this Christmas**:
Could you be one of our Christmas champions this year? Whether you’re a Gravy Guardian, or a Roastie Rockstar, pour your energy into this season and help us create the best Christmas possible for our customers.

Our stores are fast-paced environments where no two days are ever the same, especially during our busiest and most magical time of the year. They are at the heart of the local community providing outstanding value, quality and great service. As one of our Trading Assistants, you’ll be one of our Christmas Champions ensuring our stores are set up brilliantly to give our customers everything they come to Sainsbury’s for.

**Eligibility**:

- You must have Right to Work eligibility in the UK

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**What you’ll be doing**:

- Collecting stock from the warehouse using heavy roll cages (up to 15KG) to replenish a variety of items across the store, keeping our shelves clean, tidy and full of well-presented products
- Always ready to serve our customers brilliantly when the store is open, supporting with any questions, and proactively offering help
- Date checking fresh produce and grocery products
- Helping across the store as needed and supporting with deliveries as required
- Build great knowledge about our products, services and promotions to help provide recommendations

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

- Happy working overnight in a fast-paced, physical and high energy environment, often on your own but also thrive in being part of a team
- Friendly and welcoming with a genuine enthusiasm for helping customers
- Takes responsibility for owning tasks and uses initiative to solve problems
- Always prepared to work flexibly and productively across the store to a high standard - you’ll be fully trained in a variety of skills, so you have opportunities to learn, develop and try new things
- Comfortable in learning to use new digital tools and technology to do your job brilliantly
- Have great attention to detail, keeping the store clean and clutter free, always looking 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:

- **Nightshift premium** - in addition to the advertised hourly rate, a further £2.45 nightshift premium is paid for every hour worked between midnight - 5am (where applicable).
- **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

**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 discretionary leave for families, as well as support for carers. We provide our colleagues resources to help them understand and support their role and their team effectively. Our internal colleague networks seek to ensure true representation for everyone, helping us identify and remove barriers that our colleagues may face.

We are proud to offer a range of development opportunities, including mentorship, training, and career progression pathways, to help our colleagues grow and succeed. We also celebrate diversity through various initiatives and events, fostering a culture of inclusion and respect. If you would like to learn more about our commitment to inclusivity, please take a look here.