Seasonal Sales Assistant, Part Time – Runcorn

Company: Card Factory
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Location: Runcorn
Job Description:

Salary Details: NMW / NLWLocation: 18a Church Street RuncornJob Reference: cardfac/TP/915/25964

At cardfactory were all about helping our customers celebrate lifes special moments, whatever they are. We see ourselves as celebration experts and we need someone like you to help us spread more cheer as we get closer to the festive season.

Location: OVERRIDE THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE Store Name or for shared recruitment enter Town/City Name (include partner/cluster store names e.g. York (Acomb, Monks Cross, Clifton Moor and/or Coney Street)

Contracted Hours Available:8 per location

Fixed-Term Contract:Ending 29th December 2024

Main Responsibilities

Spreading festive cheer is so much fun, but its also very busy. From now onwards, were a lot like elves busily preparing for the big day, 25th December, and we need more people to join the party. This is where you come in.

As a Seasonal Sales Assistant, day to day youll be doing things like:

  • Ensuring that the customer is at the heart of everything you do in store. It’s the customer promise that all our colleagues work to.

  • Making our customers feel welcomed wowed and won over. Thats the way we do things at cardfactory.

  • Serving customers at the tills, ensuring they found everything they needed in their visit.

  • Recommending our amazing product ranges to our customers. We have a lot more than cards to offer so upselling our great gifts and wrap ranges will be a big part of your day, not forgetting about cardfactory.co.uk and gettingpersonal.co.uk as well.

  • Unpacking and restocking our products. We need to ensure our shelves are well stocked, so our customers have our full product range to select from when they visit store.

  • Helping with stock take and merchandising our products from time to time.

  • Being part of a fantastic team, all passionate about celebrations and spreading more cheer. Tis the season to be jolly after all.

Ideal Candidate

Having experience in retail isn’t essential. Well show you how to use the tills and find stock.

What we do want is people who are friendly, approachable, and helpful.

It can get pretty busy in store, so youll need to be comfortable being on your feet, working at a fast pace and OK changing your priorities during each shift.

We look for people to work across 1000+ stores over the festive season so you might be able to work across a few close-by stores if you are available for more hours. This is optional and well chat to you in your interview more about how this would work.

If you think being a celebration expert sounds a great as we do, if you have good communications skills, enjoy talking to people and are looking for some extra cash for Christmas then a Seasonal Sales Assistant role might just be the perfect fit for you.

Card Factory is the UKs leading specialist retailer of greetings cards, dressings, and gifts with over one thousand stores across the UK and Ireland. In 2020 we launched our exciting 5-year business strategy including our vision of becoming a trueOmni-channel retailer. This strategy sees significant investment into ourcolleagues across the business creating multiple opportunities to join a fast-paced environment and be part ofourexcitingjourney.

In return, we offer a wide range of benefits to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.

Benefits

  • Pension
  • 15% Card Factory colleague discount in-store and online
  • Save As You Earn scheme
  • Financial Wellbeing Support
    • Financial Education Tools
    • Salary Advance
  • Seasonal incentive schemes
  • Retail Management Apprenticeship Programmes with local providers with access to a virtual internal network for learning together
  • Discounted gym membership, mobile phone contracts, and car leasing
  • Discounts across 100s of UK retailers
  • Employee Assistance Programme access to tools to support mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
  • Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption leave

This is an exciting role with genuine prospects for the right candidate. If this role describes you and your career aspirations, click apply now.

For any questions email:vacancies@cardfactory.co.uk(we do not accept CVs/Applicationsvia email)

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once sufficient suitable applications have been received. We advise applying early to avoid disappointment as applications will be reviewed regularly.

No agencies, please.

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Posted: May 13th, 2026