Operations Team Member

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Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full-time

Hours of Work: 40 Hours per week

Salary: Starting from £10.50 (Ages under 19: £8.79) with the ability to earn more through experience and gaining qualifications such as Forklift, First Aid and RAMA (AMTRA)

Do you love retail / agriculture?

Enjoy talking to people?

If so, we’d love you to join our team at Penzance and play a part of putting the farmer at the heart of everything we do!

What it takes to be a Operations Team Member at Mole Valley Farmers:

The Operations Team is the engine of the operation ensuring inventory is always accurate so that customers are confident that they get the product they want when they shop with us. You endeavour to achieve maximum availability through maintaining the stock file through accuracy, attention to detail and a confidence to challenge. You will present a branch to the customer that we are all proud to be a part of, delivering a branch where visual merchandising and presentation standards exceeds customer and company expectation.

What you will be doing:

You will deliver exceptional levels of customer service through the maintenance of the store stock file, product availability and display. From loading goods into customer’s vehicles and checking deliveries, to working in the office serving customers on the tills, you’ll play an important part in the successful operation of the store. You’ll also be checking stock rotation and maintaining the yard and compound layout.

Please note, due to the nature of our products, this position will involve regular manual handling and heavy lifting (weights of up to 25kg).

What’s in it for you:

You can expect to work as part of a great team with opportunities for training and development, we’re offering a competitive salary and benefits package.

• Scottish Widows contributory Pension – company will match up to 5%
• Up to 25% staff discount in store
• Free parking on site
• 33 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Plenty of career progression opportunities
• Salary Finance
• Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme with Retail Trust

Please note, this vacancy may close prior to the expiry date if we have received a suitable number of applications.

We are one of the country’s leading agricultural supply businesses offering a complete suite of in-store, on-farm, and online services, inspired by our passion for the agricultural industry and wider rural community.

Originally founded in 1960 by a small group of farmers, over the years we have grown and today we operate over 50 nationwide rural retail locations comprising Mole Valley Farmers, Mole Country Stores, and Farmdirect, along with our direct to farm business providing feed, fertilizer and other inputs to the nation’s farmers.

We exist for the greater good of our farming shareholders and work with them to improve their productivity, profitability, and sustainability.

For everyone who works in one of Mole Valley Farmers’ businesses – just like our customers who live and work in it – the countryside is a way of life and we are committed to UK agriculture.

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