Overview
Retail Assistant (Casual) – London, W1J 0BD
Salary: £14.80 per hour
Please note, this role is being offered on a Casual contract with flexible, ad-hoc work on weekdays, weekends, bank holidays, and public holidays. The Royal Academy of Arts is under no obligation to offer you hours.
About this Role
We are currently looking to recruit enthusiastic and customer focused Retail Assistants to join our Retail team on a Casual basis.
The RA Shops are a respected, well-loved and highly successful part of the RA visit; working collaboratively with our front of house teams, our Retail Assistants play a crucial role in delivering the retail offer; a service and environment that reflect the ambitions and positioning of the RA.
Recognising the importance of a consistently excellent welcome across Retail locations, the primary objective of this role is to provide frontline customer service and sales within an expert retail team, maximising sales, and trading opportunities.
About You
To be considered for this role, you will be a dynamic, customer service focussed individual who believes in putting the needs of a varied audience at the heart of what you do. An art or curatorial background is not essential to this role.
You will have first-class customer-facing skills, and the ability to deal with a wide range of people. You will be adaptable, friendly, helpful and provide a warm welcome, proactive assistance and clear information to all those visiting or working at the Academy.
You should be able to demonstrate a genuine interest in people and be able to engage with a high volume of visitors. You may have an appreciation for the arts but more importantly you will be passionate about contributing to the RA`s story.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
