Jobs & careers at York Gin
Current vacancy: Retail Team Sales Assistant
We have a part-time role available to work in our shops in the centre of York.
Application deadline: 11pm, Sunday 24 March 2024.
(Email address is at the bottom of this page.)
About us
York Gin make some of the best gins in the world - right here in York.
We have an award-winning shop in York city centre, and a second outlet at York Railway Station.
Our retail team won the Best Shop award at the Visit York Tourism Awards 2023 for their brilliant customer service.
We are a registered Living Wage employer.
Now, we need another cheerful, enthusiastic person to join our team to sell our world class gins and gifts.
You would be working at our shops in the city centre (Pavement) or occasionally the Railway Station - with a friendly, dedicated team.
What’s involved?
- Face to face customer service, presenting, and happy, gentle upselling of York Gin products, and offering tastings
- Being happy to talk about the gin-making process, and all the varieties we make. (We’ll train you on both the process and the gins!)
- Cleaning surfaces and maintaining the shop displays to a high standard
- Ensuring you follow our health and safety guidelines
- Working with alcohol - you’ll need to check customer ages, and use ‘Challenge 21’ guidelines
- A 12-16 hour week in 4-6 hour shifts (including some weekends)
- Helping with deliveries and implementing simple stock management procedures.
About you
- You enjoy talking to people - customers are often very interested in the history of York, and our gins - and they love a bit of detail
- You enjoy customer service - and you can maintain a cheerful attitude, even if you’ve said the same thing quite a few times that day!
- You enjoy keeping your environment clean and well presented
Massive bonus if you:
- Have some retail experience
- Live in York year round
- Know a bit about - and enjoy - gin
- Love York - visitors to our shops often expect us to know about the city's main attractions, and things to do
York Gin aim
- Only to create gins of the highest quality
- To treat the planet, our people, our business partners, and our customers with the utmost care and respect
- To be inspired by our city’s and gin’s long and incredible histories - hence our motto ‘History in the Tasting’
- To make York proud of us
How to apply
Please email us your application to jobs@yorkgin.comClosing date: Sunday 24th March 2024, but earlier applications welcome.
If you want to send us your email on spec, please email jobs@yorkgin.com with your CV or details of your experience.