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Trading Assistant - Shift
Trading Assistant – Sainsbury’s Stores
About the Role
Working in our stores offers a dynamic and rewarding experience! Our stores operate in fast-paced environments, ensuring no two days are the same. As a key part of our local community, Sainsbury’s delivers outstanding value, quality, and exceptional service.
As a Trading Assistant, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring stores are set up brilliantly—reinforcing that Sainsbury’s lives up to customers' expectations.
Eligibility
- Minimum age: 18 (due to possible shifts and handling certain goods such as alcohol)
- Right to Work: You must be eligible to work in the UK
Key Responsibilities
- Stock handling: Collect stock from the warehouse (handling up to 15KG using heavy roll cages) and replenish shelves efficiently, maintaining a clean, tidy, presentable, stocked space
- Customer service: Provide outstanding and proactive support to customers when needed, answering questions and assisting with their shopping experience
- Fresh produce management: Date-check and organise grocery products
- Cross-store assistance: Work across different store teams as required, including assisting with deliveries and loading/unloading where necessary
- Develop product knowledge: Build expertise in Sainsbury’s products, services, and promotions to offer tailored recommendations
Key Traits of a Great Sainsbury’s Colleague
- Thrives in fast-paced and high-energy overnight shifts, enjoying physical work and often staying independent but equally valued as a team player
- Friendly, outgoing, and knowledgeable, with a passion for delivering great service experience to customers
- Takes ownership of tasks, making proactive decisions and driving solutions independently
- Flexible and adaptable, ready to relocate across the store to meet customer and operational demands
- Accustomed to embracing new digital tools and technology required for efficient store operations
- Attention to detail: punctual, detail-oriented, and committed to maintaining a clutter-free and welcoming shopping environment
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Benefits & Rewards
Sainsbury’s champions its colleagues with industry-leading benefits:
- Nightshift premium: Employees working between midnight and 5AM receive an additional £2.45 per hour (on top of the advertised hourly rate)
- Discount card:
- 10% off Sainsbury’s, Argos, Tu, and Habitat stores after four weeks
- 15% discount every Friday and Saturday at Sainsbury’s
- Nourishment benefits: Free food and hot drinks provided in every store
- Holiday and parental leave: Generous holiday entitlement based on working hours, plus maternity/paternity leave
- Pension match: Up to 7.5% of pension contributions match
- Shopping shares: Buy Sainsbury’s shares at a discounted rate
- Extra deals: VIP offers on gyms, restaurants, holidays, shopping vouchers, and more
- Wellbeing support: Confidential assistance via Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
Note: Vacancies close rapidly, so we recommend applying promptly.
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How to Progress
For application updates, contact the specific store in which you applied. Find all Sainsbury’s stores and contact details here.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
Sainsbury’s is committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, where every colleague can thrive and every customer feels welcome.
- Flexible support systems: Enhanced discretionary leave for families and carers incorporated into the benefits package
- Team-building initiatives: Training and resource access ensures effective role assumptions and collective success
- Diversity & representation networks: Internal groups fostering visibility, diversity, and connection
- Development opportunities: Mentoring programmes, training, and career progression pathways available to support growth and respect every colleague’s potential
Sainsbury’s actively works to remove barriers identified by our colleagues, offering training and additionals initiatives across regions.
To understand our inclusivity commitments further, explore [Sainsbury’s inclusivity resources here].
Disability Confident Leader
Sainsbury’s is a Disability Confident Leader, guaranteeing that candidates progressing to interview will have first met our essential criteria via an adaptive online assessment.
If reasonable adjustments are required during the application or interview process, please inform us in advance at the earliest opportunity. We are committed to supporting you.
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