Emplo mentPages South Lakes / North Lancs / Ulv
22 August - 4 September 2014 / Issue 323 www.employment-pages.co.uk
Retail Assistants Windermere Store Part-time 24 hours Permanent As the home of creative kitchenware, innovative solutions and 4,000 quality products, Lakeland has a lot to offer our customers – and even more to offer our people. Developing your skills and career in a thriving family owned company that looks after its customers and colleagues, we’ll listen to your ideas and support you to become the best you can be. To come and work for our fabulous company you will need to: • Be able to deliver an extraordinary customer service experience • Have a genuine interest in food, cooking and the kitchen together with the enthusiasm to learn quickly • Demonstrate a passion to succeed in selling our products through developing great product knowledge • Have the ability to communicate with customers and the confidence and enthusiasm to explain and demonstrate our product range • Be able to work within a team and also on your own initiative • Demonstrate good interpersonal skills • Have retail environment experience • Be numerate and literate. If you enjoy meeting people come and join us. Naturally our stores are busy, so you’re likely to be on the go all day delivering the best possible experience for our customers and supporting all aspects of running a store from deliveries, merchandising and restocking to till and PC procedures. All our vacancies involve weekend working, early and late shifts. Your working pattern is provided on a rota basis a month in advance.
Home Shopping Despatch Assistants Kendal Centre Christmas Temps Full time – 39 hours – core day time hours Part time – 32 hours – core day time hours Part time – 12, 16, 20 or 24 hours - evenings up to 10pm Need extra money for Christmas? Taking a gap year/time out? Between now and Christmas we need extra help supporting our Home Shopping Despatch team in Kendal. These roles involve assisting and supporting our existing teams preparing customers orders for despatch. They are manual jobs which involve light but repetitive handling of stock to and from shelving and pallets, so you need to be able to reach and bend. You need to be numerate, accurate, conscientious, familiar with or willing to learn to use tablet/hand held computer terminals, capable of being self-motivated and able to work under pressure in a fast paced environment. Alexandra Buildings, Windermere, Cumbria LA23 1BQ www.lakeland.co.uk
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Full time - 39 hours (working 5 full days) or Part time - 32 hours (working 4 full days) Your hours of work will be on a planned rota basis (alternate early and later weeks) to include late and early shifts with some Saturdays or Sundays as required. Please note: No more than 1 weekend day every 2 weeks is required. The department is currently operational Monday to Sunday. Monday to Saturday you will be rota’d to work during the hours of 7:00am to 8:00pm and on Sunday between 7:00am to 3:30pm. Part time evening hours – 12, 16, 20 or 24 hours We need you to be able to work a minimum of 3 evenings per week, Monday to Friday between 6pm and 10pm. It may also possible to work some hours on Saturday and/or a Sunday in addition to the evenings if this would suit you. We need you to stay with us right up until Christmas, so please only apply if you are able to commit until Christmas 2014.
Distribution Assistants Kendal Centre Fixed-term (approx. 4 months) Full–time 39 hour contracts Part–time 32 hour contracts Part–time 16 hour contracts 35 hour night contracts Between now and early January 2015, we need extra help in our distribution centre in Kendal. Our distribution team are responsible for picking and despatching stock against very tight deadlines for our home shopping department, our 68 retail stores throughout the UK and our overseas franchised stores. These are manual jobs, therefore you need to be able to reach and bend to pick items from shelving and pallets. You need to be conscientious and accurate, with good maths abilities and basic keyboard skills. You should be self-motivated as well as a good team player and be able to work under pressure in a fast moving environment. Roles involve operating order picking machines, however full training will be given so no previous experience is required. Contracts available are full-time 39 hours (over 5 full days including one weekend day each week), part-time 32 hours (over 4 full days including one weekend day each week), part-time 16 hours (1 weekday and 1 weekend day or 2 weekend days each week) and 35 hours, nights (on a 4 on 4 off rota system). Day shifts are operational between 7am-11pm every day, apart from Sunday (currently 7am-7pm). Your days and hours of work will be rota’d to include late and early shifts and we will require 6am starts as we get busier. Night shifts operate between 8.30pm–7am over 4 nights (on a 4 on, 4 off rota). Due to the nature of the equipment used, applicants need to be over 18 years of age and be available to attend a pre–employment medical examination. Please only apply if you can commit until January 2015. To apply for any of the above posts, please call our recruitment team on 015394 40595 at our head office in Windermere for more details and an application pack.
Closing date for receipt of applications for all the above posts Friday 5 September 2014 Join us, the kitchenware people