Weekend Sales Assistants for Market Stalls

 

• £12ph + bonus scheme

• Freelance basis

• Work every Saturday, or every Sunday (or both!)

• Market trading times usually 9-1pm, or 10-3pm

• Shifts range between 7 - 10 hours long

• Immediate start

• Must have a full, clean driving licence and access to a vehicle

• Some additional work available on weekdays if desired

• Lunch provided

• Fuel and travel time covered

• Free salsas to take home or swap with other traders every shift

 

Overview:

Salsa Stories is looking for reliable and friendly sales assistants to sell our products and street food at farmers markets.

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You will be selling and sampling our award-winning fresh salsas and guacamole to take away, plus preparing and cooking our chimichangas and nachos using a simple set up and premade ingredients.

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You will be confident and good with people and (hopefully) a fan of fresh salsa! You will have excellent customer service skills and be able to think on your feet and use your initiative to problem solve.

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You will need to be able to work independently with excellent time management, setting up and breaking down the market stall by yourself, lifting heavy boxes and loading and unloading your vehicle.

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The role:

You will be responsible for running the stall for the day; from arriving at the unit in Redfield to load your vehicle, driving to the market, setting up (the gazebo, tables, signs, cooking equipment and display of products) attracting customers to sample our wares and preparing and selling our street food during trading times, to then breaking the kit down, returning it to the unit and doing the washing up.

 

You will be responsible for:

• Packing your kit and stock from the unit

• Driving to locations in Bristol, Gloucestershire, Bath and Somerset

• Setting up and breaking down the stall

• Producing and maintaining an attractive display

• Serving food so that it looks beautiful every single time

• Excellent hygiene standards

• Excellent customer service

• Taking payments via your phone and iZettle card reader

• Packing down the kit at the end of the market

• Restocking the kit at the unit ready for the following week

• Washing up

 

Full training will be provided.

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Person specification:

• You will be representing Salsa Stories and will understand the role you play in the bigger picture of Salsa Stories longer term goals

• You will be reliable, confident and trustworthy, well-presented and approachable

• You will be excellent at customer service, being proactive at inviting people to the stall to sample our wares, talking to them about our products in an informed way and upselling them everything they need. Some experience in customer service is desirable but not essential

• You will be a team player but also able to work independently, with a can-do attitude, using your initiative to problem solve

• You will be physically strong enough to do some heavy lifting, loading and unloading etc. Trolleys are provided to assist

• You will have a full, clean driving licence and access to your own vehicle (you may additionally be given access to our vehicle)

• Availability on Saturdays and/or Sundays (time off for holidays, for example, can be arranged or swapped for alternative shifts on other days)
   

Salary & Company Benefits

• £12ph + achievable bonus scheme

• Training provided

• Lunch provided

• Fuel and travel time covered

• Free salsas to take home or swap with other traders every shift

• Fun team

• Possibility of festival work in the future
   

How to apply:

If this sounds like something you’d like to do then please dm or email me, (Julie), to start a conversation hello@salsastories.co.uk

 

We will then have an informal chat and arrange a trial shift.

 

About Salsa Stories:

At Salsa Stories we are passionate about flavour. Our range of fresh and saucy salsas are based on a recipe from our founder Julie McCalden’s childhood in the States. With nothing comparable available in the UK, Julie used the recipe as a flavour map to create a range of fresh salsas. Our fresh salsas make banging snacks and add mouth-popping flavour and a punch of heat to whatever’s cooking. Since launching in June 2021 our business has grown to supply retail and catering and alongside our farmers markets, we’ve developed a street food wing selling burritos, rice bowls and nachos to complement our fresh salsas.

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