Visitor Services Assistant - Retail
Organisation: The National Trust for Scotland
Salary: £24,960 pro-rata, per annum
Location: Culloden Battlefield
JOB PURPOSE
Retail plays a key role in the winning Culloden Battlefield team. Your job is to give a warm, Highland welcome and to generate the sales and income that helps us protect and preserve the site and many others in Scotland. You may be working across the Culloden Cluster sites, this includes Abertarff House, Hugh Miller’s Cottage and Culloden Battlefield. Voted a 5-Star destination by Visit Scotland, together we’ll deliver a top shopping experience and unforgettable memories for all our happy customers.
This role is key to the visitor experience; your role is to put smiles on faces and ensure our visitors have an amazing visit.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
This role will assist the wider Retail team to deliver the best visitor experience at Culloden cluster sites (including but not limited to):
To provide excellent customer service.
Be responsible and proactive. Ensuring all day-to-day tasks are completed.
Cash reconciliation duties including end of day and administration tasks. Ensuring cash is handled accurately and there is continuity across all sales platforms
Working with the Visitor Services Retail team to ensure best stock management
To actively drive-up selling opportunities through strong product knowledge and an excellent, pro-active customer service to maximise sales of shop stock and donations.
Working with the Visitor Services Manager (Retail) and wider property staff to ensure high standards of display & merchandising at all times.
Be able to take responsibility for your own development and learning.
Have a flexible approach to working hours and days including working weekends and Bank Holidays as needed on a rota basis.
To work across departments when necessary, supporting the wider Culloden Cluster team
To develop a working knowledge of the history of the site and being able to relate that to visitors in a friendly and engaging way
To provide consistently excellent customer service when dealing with high volumes of customers
Adhering to the property’s quality standards including wearing of uniform.
To adhere to the Trust’s Health, Safety and Environment policies and guidelines. This includes working within the property’s “Safe System of Work” (the system for managing Health & Safety).
The current duties of this job do not require criminal records (Disclosure Scotland) check to be carried out.
Application Deadline: Sunday 01/09/2024