Sales Assistant Jobs in UK

Sales assistants are the wheels that make the world of face-to-face consumer sales turn. They work wherever there are goods or services being sold to the public. Most commonly they are found in retail and ecommerce, and to a lesser extent in catering and call centres. The difference between sales assistants and sales people is that assistants usually (but not always) do not try to persuade customers to buy a certain good or service, they merely help them acquire it.

This said the goal of sales assistants is usually to help customers purchase goods and services as quickly and painlessly as possible. They do this in a number of ways, for example by helping customers decide on a product that meets their needs, physically locating products for customers and by dealing with complaints and other issues that customers may be having.

Though an entry-level position, sales assistants do an important job for the business they work for, and if they work hard and their efforts are noticed, progression into management and greater responsibilities is often quick. However for many people, becoming a sales assistant is not seen as a longterm career path, and it is often a relatively easy way to earn some money whilst in education or working on something else.

86% of current opportunities are permanent, whereas 14% are contract jobs.

85% of the live vacancies are full-time, however 15% of them are part-time positions.

904 new job listings for this search have been found in the last calendar day, compared with 1,879 in the last 72 hours and 3,896 in the last week.

The Adzuna recency index score for this search is 1.13, suggesting that demand for Sales Assistant job vacancies in UK is increasing.

The standard deviation of salaries for the results of this search is 14,253.