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Retail Cheesemonger - Part-Time

Mons Cheesemongers
South East London

Posted: 11 Feb 2025

Deadline: 23 Feb 2025

Compensation: £27,000+ pro-rata (dependent on experience)

Paid Part-time Permanent

Job description

We are looking for food lovers to join our retail team on a part-time basis for 1 or 2 days a week. We believe experience behind the cheese counter is the best way to learn about the production, selection, and maturation of the products we work with.

Responsibilities will include:

• Creating an inviting, positive and safe customer service experience
• Delivering excellent product knowledge to customers
• Adhering to strict health and safety procedures
• Upholding strict health and safety procedures, maintaining exact quality assurance standards
• Working to exceed weekly sales & customer number targets
• Tasting cheese daily in order to accurately gauge its flavour profile and condition

A successful candidate will be:

• A clear and concise communicator
• Comfortable in a customer-facing role
• Organised and able to balance multiple jobs
• Self-motivated
• Rigorous and highly organised

Applicants will be considered favourably if they have:

• Previous work in the sale of artisan foods
• A full, clean UK driving licence
• Experience working towards and hopefully exceeding sales targets
• Can work half days as part of a working week
• Live an easily commutable distance from our South London retail sites
• Experience with cheese & a HUGE love of it!

Additional benefits include:

• 1 extra day annual leave for every year of employment beyond 5 years
• Cycle to work scheme
• Generous staff discount
• Full product training, including staff tastings and a steady supply of delicious cheese
• Occasional producer visits to those we work with in the UK, France & Switzerland

Starting salary: £27,000+ (dependent on experience) pro-rata with opportunities for progression

Your shifts would include a set Saturday with others on a Sunday or mid-week. Please specify your availability on your cover letter. There will also be many opportunities to take on extra shifts across our busiest periods of the year.

Availability in the run-up to Christmas is essential; we ask that part-time mongers chip in with a full 5 days. Your training will take place at either our East Dulwich or Borough Market site and you will likely be retailing across more than one of our sites over the year.

The deadline for applications is Sunday 23rd February, though we will look to reply to applications as and when we receive them with interviews organised soon after. Apply using the form on our website (https://mons-cheese.co.uk/pages/career-opportunities), make sure to include a cover letter.

Please call 020 706 469 12 if you have any questions.

Application information

Apply using the form on our website, make sure to include a cover letter.

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