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Retail Store Associate
- Newmarket, ON, Canada
Full-time
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As a Wild Fork Team Member, your focus is to deliver a memorable experience to all of our guests. You will be trained to be a personal chef and friendly butcher to have the highest level of product knowledge to provide customers with recommendations on their favorite dish or protein. In addition, you will be responsible for ensuring proper inventory control to maximize product freshness and availability, replenish low stock items, pick and pack online orders and deliver a friendly check-out experience.
Position Type : Full time
Starting wage : $18.50 per hour + Bonus potential
If you are someone looking for a career growth opportunity and you LOVE TO COOK & LOVE TO EAT, we would love to connect with you!
Our Values: Determination, Simplicity, Availability, Humility, Sincerity, Discipline, Ownership
Essential Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Be a Brand Ambassador – enthusiastic and passionate about our quality products, educate the consumer on what Wild Fork stands for
- Become a product and culinary expert by giving total effort during our training classes to provide great recipes and tips on how to cook our protein
- Provide a butcher friendly shopping experience by personalizing every step of the way
- Assist customers during the check-out process and deliver an experience to remember
- Perform stocking duties such as lifting up to 50lb, rotating products, ordering, dusting, and cleaning store
- Oversee daily price changes and manage cash register as required
- Process customer e-commerce orders and oversee timely product hand out for deliveries
- Must be able to work in an extremely cold environment- pulling racks, process shipment, and performing monthly inventory in our walk-in freezer
- Performs other related duties
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
- Physically able to exert up to 50 pounds of force
- Occasional exposure to extreme temperatures – walk-in freezers
- Stand/walk for up to 8-10 hours
- Frequent movement within the store to access various departments, areas, and products
Benefits & Perks:
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
- RRSP Plan
- Culinary Training
- Tenure Program
- Higher Education Programs
- Vacation Time, Paid Holiday & Birthday PTO
- Monthly Bonus Potential
- WF Unlimited- Free Shipping
- Chew On This- One give away product a month
- Wild Chef - Allowance per month to shop in our store
Qualifications:
- High school degree or GED preferred not required
- One year of customer service experience in retail, hospitality, or restaurant is required
- Excellent verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people, by showing interest and carefully listening to their needs required
- Work with integrity as a TEAM toward a shared vision
- Be determined and deliver superior results with a sense of urgency, time management, and prioritization
- Treat it like you own it –Take ownership and responsibility to be successful
- Acts with respect and values other opinions
- Strong cognitive skills, including problem analyzing
- Enthusiasm and passion for food and customer service preferred
- Excellent organizational and multitasking skills
- Show dependability and commitment
- Fundamental math functions such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
- Ability to meet seasonal peaks, workloads, and deadlines
- The availability to work a flex schedule, working various hours and shifts, including early mornings, evenings and, weekends/holidays required
Due to the nature and job duties of this role, employment-based immigration sponsorship is not available for this role.
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Responsibilities
The Retail Store Associate is responsible for providing exceptional customer service, offering culinary recommendations, and maintaining product knowledge. They also manage inventory, process online orders, and ensure the store environment is clean and well-stocked.
Requirements
Candidates should have at least one year of customer service experience in retail, hospitality, or restaurant settings. Strong verbal communication, basic math skills, and the ability to perform physical tasks like lifting up to 50 lbs are required.
Skills
- Customer service
- Inventory control
- Product knowledge
- Culinary expertise
- Cash handling
- E-commerce order processing
- Verbal communication
- Time management
- Multitasking
- Math skills
- Problem analyzing
- Stocking
- Cleaning
- Teamwork
- Flexibility
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- RRSP plan
- Culinary training
- Tenure program
- Higher education programs
- Vacation time
- Paid holiday
- Birthday PTO
- Monthly bonus potential
- Free shipping
- Product giveaways
- Monthly store allowance
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Retail
- Food & Beverage
- Customer Service & Support
Keywords
- Retail
- Customer Service
- Inventory Management
- Culinary
- Butcher
- E-commerce
- Cash Register
- Stocking
- Freezer
- Team Member
- Brand Ambassador
- Point of Sale
- Product Rotation
- Hospitality
- Food Safety