Strake Ayres: Store Assistant

Description Starke Ayres is the foremost African specialist and global supplier of premium vegetable, flower and lawn seed varieties – both for commercial and home garden planting. The following position has become available for a Shop Assistant, based in Rosebank, Cape Town.

Responsibilities This dual-role position combines customer-facing responsibilities with essential cleaning and maintenance duties. The position requires working outdoors and indoors, assisting customers, handling plants and products, and helping to keep our premises clean and presentable.

• Clean and sanitize customer and staff areas (including restrooms, floors, and communal spaces)
• Sweep, mop, and maintain cleanliness in greenhouses, sales areas, and workspaces
• Take out trash and manage recycling as needed
• Ensure all public-facing areas are tidy, safe, and welcoming
• Perform regular checks to ensure cleaning supplies are stocked and notify management when reordering is required
• Provides excellent, professional customer service at all times; ensuring a positive shopping experience.
• Assists customers with purchases by advising or sourcing relevant advice from horticultural personnel.
• Loads customers trolleys with their purchase and guides them to the till points and assist the cashier with capturing the correct code/price of products.
• After payment, carefully loads purchases into the customers vehicle, ensuring that all trolleys are returned to the trolley areas as per seasonal operational requirements.
• Assists with the correct labelling of plants, Products and packs them in their correct sales areas.
• Prepares areas for new stock.
• Ensures that sales areas are always kept neat and tidy products and plants are effectively displayed.
• Assists with annual stock take.

Requirements REQUIREMENTS:

• Grade 12 National Senior Certificate
• Reside close to Rosebank Premises

Work Level

Junior

Job Type

Permanent

Salary

Market Related

EE Position

No

Location

Cape Town