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Buildings / Landscapes / Plants Sales Assistant

Do you have an interest in all things garden related? If so, we would love to hear from you as you could be the Salesperson with the passion and helpful nature we’re looking for to join our Outside Team at Downtown Garden Centre.

As a Sales Assistant you will focus on offering our customers an excellent service building rapport, interacting with customers, and delivering solutions to the individual customer’s needs. Daily tasks include selling garden buildings, watering plants, working garden deliveries and general housekeeping tasks as required.

You will be a key team player, with superb communication skills and good levels of self-motivation.

Hours are 25 per week, worked over five days a week during store opening times, including weekends during our busiest times.

Our benefits package includes staff discount of up to 20% across all of our stores, subsidised food and drink, career progression opportunities within a friendly team environment and industry-leading rewards for long service. And as our staff trust holds 15% of our Company’s shares, employees can also benefit from a share of the profits whenever dividends are paid to Shareholders.

If you feel you would be an asset to our friendly Garden Centre sales team, we would love to hear from you.

To apply, please send a full CV and covering letter by e-mail to hrrecruit@downtownstores.co.uk or by post to Human Resources, Downtown Store, Wyberton Chain Bridge, Boston, Lincolnshire, PE21 7NL, quoting job reference P0801.

Beauty Adviser (Estee Lauder)

Every day our customers are inspired by a range of quality products and services offered at our Downtown Boston store.  Our aim is to provide each customer with an exceptional service that complements our extensive product range and caters individually to each customer’s needs.  

We have a unique vacancy for an individual with a passion for Cosmetics and Fragrance to represent our Estee Lauder brand and sell our fantastic products.

This varied and engaging role will focus on meeting sales targets for our Estee Lauder products in a bustling environment, building rapport with customers, and delivering expert product recommendations on a range of products to maximise sales opportunities.

You must have great people skills and be passionate about offering customers a superb experience.  Previous experience working within retail or in a similar sales role would be beneficial, although full training will be provided. 

Hours are 12 per week usually worked during store opening times on two days out of seven including weekends.  A flexible approach to working days and times is required and you should be available to work varying days and additional hours if required.

If you feel you would be an asset to our friendly team at Downtown Boston, we would love to hear from you.  

Our benefits package includes staff discount of up to 20% across all of our stores, subsidised food and drink, career progression opportunities within a friendly team environment and industry-leading rewards for long service.  And as our staff trust holds 15% of our Company’s shares, employees can also benefit from a share of the profits whenever dividends are paid to Shareholders.

To apply, please send a full CV and covering letter by e-mail to hrrecruit@downtownstores.co.uk or by post to Human Resources, Downtown Store Boston, Wyberton Chain Bridge, Boston, Lincolnshire, PE21 7NL, quoting job reference W0801.

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Co-op Travel - Downtown Boston

Senior Sales Consultant

We're currently hiring a Senior Sales Consultant in our Boston Travel Branch, we're looking for people with:
• 2+ years of travel sales experience
• Proven track record hitting sales targets 
Take your career to the next level! Apply now and let's talk about this amazing opportunity.

If you are interested please apply via the link: https://careers.lincolnshire.coop/vacancies/3355/senior-travel-consultant.html

You can apply online by sending your CV with a covering e-mail or letter to hrrecruit@downtownstores.co.uk.  Alternatively, you can post your application to:

Human Resources
Downtown Store
Wyberton Chain Bridge
Boston
Lincolnshire
PE21 7NL

Don’t forget to tell us which vacancy you’re applying for.

You must be school leaving age or older to work for us.  In England, you can leave school on the last Friday in June if you’ll be 16 by the end of the summer holidays.

You can apply shortly before you finish school, but you won’t be able to start until after the last Friday in June.

We review applications as we receive them, and we interview as soon as we have applicants we think are a good match.  You should therefore apply at your earliest convenience to avoid missing out.

Yes. If you are applying to become a Sales Assistant we would prefer you to apply for the vacancy you think most suits your skills and experience so that we do not try to assess you more than once for similar roles.  For other roles we would encourage you to think very carefully about which role(s) you apply for and to look at the skills and experience detailed in the advert. If you feel you are right for the vacancy, try to ensure that where appropriate you tailor your application accordingly.  This will help your application to stand out for the role in question.

Yes. We strive to acknowledge every application we receive.  If you have applied by e-mail, you will receive an automatic reply acknowledging your application.  If you have applied by post, we will either respond to the e-mail address you have provided or send you an acknowledgement by post.  If you haven’t received an acknowledgement within two weeks of submitting your application, please let us know.

We strive to acknowledge every application we receive.  This could be by e-mail or letter.  If you haven’t received an acknowledgement within two weeks of submitting your application, please let us know.

You’ll be contacted again if you are shortlisted for interview, but if you do not hear from us again within four weeks of our initial acknowledgement then unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful.  Please feel free to keep checking for new vacancies on our website, which are normally updated weekly.

Yes. If you have attended an interview you will be advised of the outcome by telephone, e-mail or letter.  If you feel it would help you in the future to be given constructive feedback, please contact the person who arranged your interview.

You can contact a member of our friendly Human Resources team by e-mailing hrrecruit@downtownstores.co.uk or by telephoning 01205 318210 and leaving a message for a member of the team to call you back.

Alternatively, you can write to us at:

Human Resources
Downtown Superstore
Wyberton Chain Bridge
Boston
Lincolnshire
PE21 7NL