Sales Assistant – Key Holder

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

Contracted hours: 8 hours per week

Availability required: Wednesday/Thursday/Sunday as required

About us

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.