Customer Assistant

**About The Role**: Our store teams are at the heart of the local community and our Customer Assistants provide a friendly, helpful service and a buzz people enjoy. It’s why our customers keep coming back for more. It’s challenging and fast-paced from Market Street, to replenishing stock, to working on our checkouts, our friendly team love going above and beyond to bring our customers what they want. You’ll be part of a highly energised team who work hard and get the job done. Our stores are successful when we all work together to deliver a great experience for our customers, and our people make the difference. There are a variety of shift patterns available. We’re early birds (5am starts are not uncommon) and night owls (our shops are open late), flexibility is really important to us as you will need to be able to work some evenings and weekends. **In return for your hard work we will offer you**: - Fully flexible shift patterns - Six weeks holiday (including bank holidays) - 15% discount in our supermarkets available from the day you join us - Additional 10% discount card for a Friend or Family member - Career progression and development opportunities - Subsidised in store cafe or shop floor ranges - Competitive pension and life assurance - Healthcare/Well-being benefits including Aviva Digital GP - Morrisons MyPerks with discounts at high street shops, cinemas and gyms, and lots more - Optional Payroll charity donations - A range of family friendly policies including Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, Neonatal and Fertility leave Please note: We will only recruit individuals who are over the school leaver’s age. To find out the school leavers age please visit the following link **About The Company**: We love providing our customers with a great shopping experience they won’t find anywhere else. We are one of the UK’s largest supermarkets, we provide great value for money and good quality fresh food and groceries to over 11 million customers every week. Our focus on freshness makes us stand out as we prepare more fresh food in-store than any other supermarket. We’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part. So, whether you want to make the freshest food or serve our customers, we’d love to meet you... We're Foodmakers and Shopkeepers and together, we make Morrisons. What we make, makes us who we are **About You**: We’re interested in hard working people, who can work flexibly as part of a team, to deliver great customer service every time. Although retail experience is desirable, it’s not essential as we’ll make sure you know everything you need to do a great job.

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