Seasonal Retail Sales Assistant (Garden Sundries)
From 1st October 2025 to 1st January 2026
Working Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday plus alternate Sunday and Saturday
Hourly Rate £12.50 per hour
We are excited to be opening our brand-new garden centre in 2025. To support our opening, we need to recruit seasonal team members. We are looking for individuals with proven retail experience who can take responsibility for specific product areas; driving sales and delivering excellent customer service.
Perrywood is an independent, family-owned garden centre and nursery group run by the Bourne Family. Our Tiptree, Buckhatch and Sudbury centres are all surrounded by beautiful countryside, and our mission is to offer a memorable garden centre experience, delivering wow customer service and giving our employees and customers a reason to smile.
Rewards and Benefits
In addition to your hourly rateyou will receive the following benefits:
- Discount – From the start of your employment you will receive 10% discount on specific items. Following a successful probation period the discount increases up to 20% discount on specific items and after one years service up to 40% discount on specific items. (some exceptions apply)
- Paid holiday – holiday entitlement is 22 days per year, plus bank holidays. Restrictions apply (part-time pro rata)
- Annual Christmas bonus
- Part-uniform provided
- Employee Assistant Programme - a confidential personal and professional support service available to all employees and their immediate families 24/7, 365 days a year.
- Training & development, as required. We have an e-learning scheme called GROW, and also take part in other training with product suppliers and external trainers
- Company sick pay – following a successful probation period employees are entitled to 10 days paid sickness (part-time pro rata and subject to restrictions)
- Access to our Retail Discount Scheme – savings on retailers including Tesco, Pizza Express,
- M&S, Waitrose, Argos, Apple, Currys PC World, Thomas Cook and 100’s more
- Workplace pension
- Free parking
Key duties
- Take responsibility for distinct product areas, in terms of stocking up, cleanliness and driving sales through excellent customer service
- Work closely with display merchandiser and supervisor to create eye-catching displays and stock up around product groups and seasonal hooks e.g. Christmas, Easter, Halloween
- Delivering excellent customer service, confidently answering customer queries face to face and on the telephone
- Operating the till system (EPOS – electronic point of sale), processing cash and card payments
- Labelling and pricing
- Maintaining stock levels in selling areas and merchandising
- Helping customers with enquiries, finding products etc.
- Being friendly, polite and helpful to customers at all times
- Ensuring health and safety duties are met
- Taking customer orders
- Annual stock take and on-going stock maintenance e.g. theft prevention, breakages, returns
- This is not an exhaustive list and you are required to be flexible in your approach to carrying out your duties.
Your capabilities
- You have good verbal communication skills, and are confident in dealing with members of the public
- You are able to follow instructions from your manager and can work on your own initiative
Requirements
- Experience of working in a fast paced retail environment is essential
- Knowledge of standard retail procedures such as merchandising and stocking up, customer service, cleanliness and health & safety is essential
- You’ll need to work four week days, plus a weekend day
- You’ll need to work most bank holidays, but will be given a day’s holiday in lieu
- Ability to lift and carry e.g. stocking up, lifting objects to scan in at the till
- Good communication and customer service skills essential
If this Seasonal Retail Sales Assistant (Garden Sundries) position sounds like the ideal opportunity for you, please apply directly to us. We’d love to hear from you!
For further information and a full job description, please visit the Perrywood website https://www.perrywood.co.uk/careers/
Perrywood is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you require any reasonable adjustments, please inform us as soon as you are able so that we can make the appropriate adjustments.
Job Types: Full-time, Temporary
Contract length: 3 months
Pay: £12.50 per hour
Expected hours: 39 per week
Benefits:
- Employee discount
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Store discount
Application question(s):
- Due to our rural location and limited access to public transport your own transport is preferred
Experience:
- Retail: 1 year (required)
- Customer Service: 1 year (required)
Work Location: In person
Expected start date: 01/10/2025
