Jobs at Cribbs

About the Company

Welcome to Build-A-Bear Workshop®, Where Best Friends Are Made®. – The leading and only global company that offers an interactive make-your-own furry friend retail-entertainment experience.

Making a furry friend gift is a unique and fun experience. You can choose from over 30 furry friends to bring to life and give it a unique personality with hundreds of teddy bear sized outfits and teddy bear sized accessories, too.

About the Role:

•    We are looking for Bear Builders Sales Assistant to join our Cribbs store on a Temporary contract.

Duties to include:

•    Provide a personalised, enjoyable and memorable experience for guests of all ages.

•    Create a great first Impression

•    Greet all guests that visit our store and welcome them to Build A Bear

•    Explain the Build A Bear process to all guests that visit.

•    Engage Conversation 

•    Assist Guests in choosing, stuffing, dressing, naming and taking home(purchasing) a new furry friend 
•    Contribute to stores total results by recommending, suggesting and demonstrating items to maximise sales and enhance guest experience 

•     Deliver an outstanding and magical Heart Ceremony that is specific to each individual Guest after they have stuffed their bear

•    Knowledge of workshop sales goals, guest satisfaction, expectations and promotional objectives

•    A passion to drive sales for the benefit of themselves and the team.

•    Confidence to grab whole store attention to sing Happy Birthday and raise morale

•    Maintain Visual and Housekeeping standards to create the brand experience unique to Build A Bear Workshop 

•    Delivery handling and general sales floor and back of house keeping 

•    Follow all Company Policies and Procedures 

•    All other tasks as may be assigned by Store Management

Job Requirements 

•    Is out-going, ambitious and success oriented. 
•    Exceptional communication and selling skills
•    Models personal and professional integrity
•    Is flexible and adaptable in a fast-paced work environment

•    Enjoys a high energy environment and demonstrates and appreciation for children of all ages. 
•    Able to work Sundays and Saturdays 
•    Able to work over the Christmas and New year Period

How to apply

Email CV and covering letter quoting Cribbs Causeway to cribbsc@buildabear.co.uk or visit www.buildabear.co.uk for further information.  

About the Company

Welcome to Build-A-Bear Workshop®, Where Best Friends Are Made®. – The leading and only global company that offers an interactive make-your-own furry friend retail-entertainment experience.

Making a furry friend gift is a unique and fun experience. You can choose from over 30 furry friends to bring to life and give it a unique personality with hundreds of teddy bear sized outfits and teddy bear sized accessories, too.

About the Role:

• We are looking for experienced Senior Sales Assistant to join our store The Mall Cribbs Causeway.
  
  
• You must have previous high street retail experience with supervisory or management experience

Duties to include:

•            Assisting Store Manager and Assistant Store Manager with payroll and timekeeping procedures

•            Assists with the development and training of new staff

•            Processing guest transactions, and following company cash handling procedures

•            Assisting with timely processing and merchandising of incoming and outgoing shipments

•            Maintains daily awareness of merchandise in stock, current marketing campaigns and promotions

•            Assisting store manager with recruitment and selection

•           Assisting with children’s parties

Key skills

•            excellent written and verbal communication skills

•            Good leadership and selling skills

•            Enthusiastic with a passion to succeed

•            Models professional and personal integrity

•            To have 1 year experience at Key Holder level

•            Flexible and adaptable in a fast paced environment

•           Fosters a high energy environment and demonstrates and appreciation for children of all ages

How to apply

Email CV and covering letter quoting Cribbs Causeway to cribbsc@buildabear.co.uk or visit www.buildabear.co.uk for further information.  

We are looking for friendly and confident individual who have a passion for fashion and excellent customer service skills to join our team as a Supervisor. Must have previous key holder or Supervisory experience

• To ensure the Store sales performance is maximised to its full potential and delivered above agreed Targets and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• To consistently demonstrate our Core Values and ensure by example that the sales team understand how our Core Values & Brand Statement are translated into actions and behaviours

Benefits: 
Shoe allowance and discount.

Hours:
8 hours a week.

How to apply:
Drop CV into store or email CV to 223bristol@thedunegroup.com with days and times available to work.

Oliver Bonas are looking for an Assistant Store Manager to join Team.

As an Assistant Store Manager, you will work alongside your Store Manager to enhance sales and motivate your team. Reporting to the Store Manager, you will bring enthusiasm, positivity, and joy to the store by inspiring your customers and colleagues and maximising sales.

This will be a flexible contract, meaning you will have a fixed number of hours you will work per week across a variety of days and shifts. Your rota will be communicated to you in advance by your line manager, and we are open to having conversations about working flexibly.

A bit about us …

At Oliver Bonas (OB), our values of Work Hard, Play Hard & Be Kind are integral to everything we do. Collaboration, imagination, curiosity, and teamwork are key to our success, and everyone has their part to play in making OB a special place to work.

Having fun is key, and a playful and positive approach creates an optimistic environment. We don’t take ourselves too seriously, but we are serious about what we do.

Our team knows their stuff. They’re confident and creative and unafraid to challenge convention to find solutions, taking accountability for their actions, but always with kindness and humility.

More about the role …

OB Assistant Store Managers will:

• Analyse a variety of reports to measure the success of the store and team.
• Work with KPIs to evaluate the store’s performance and identify development areas.
• Lead by example and provide guidance to all team members, making sure their personal objectives and the store’s objectives are being met.
• Work alongside the store manager to ensure the team delivers exceptional customer experiences.
• Support your store manager with progress meetings and appraisals in a timely manner for all team members and carry out the meetings where appropriate.
• Work with your team to develop and support their career progression.
• Follow company guidelines for all cash handling including till transactions and cashing up.
• Make sure the team always adhere to OB operational standards.
• Have an approachable yet authoritative written and verbal communication style, in-keeping with the Oliver Bonas tone of voice.

Bonas Benefits:

• Generous employee discount up to 60% off all OB products
• Free access to our 24 hour employee assistance programme with Care First – offering financial, emotional and vocational support
• Flexible holiday – 30 days (including bank holidays) – increasing to 35 days with length of service
• Annual discretionary profit related bonus scheme
• Free membership for our Westfield Health Cash Plan or Private Medical
• Auto-enrolment into our pension plan
• Refer a Friend incentive
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
• Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity Voice network and EDI team
• Mental Health First Aider support
• Education and support throughout Looop eLearning platform
• Free refreshments and treats in store

What we look for:

• Experience in team management.
• Positivity, vibrancy and ready to take on anything.
• Someone who’s kind, helpful and considerate towards customers and team members alike.
• Exceptional organisation skills and natural multi-tasking ability.
• Commercial awareness.
• Ambition, resourcefulness and someone who’s looking for opportunities to learn more.

How to apply:

Follow the link above

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at OB

At Oliver Bonas, our promise is to do our bit to make living a joyful experience and give cause for optimism. This promise is central to our work in equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). To bring joy to others, we must first ensure everyone at OB feels valued, included and most importantly, can be themselves at work.

It is important to us that our brand reflects wider society and the communities in which we operate. As a result, we welcome all eligible applicants for this role however we are particularly interested in speaking to eligible candidates from the Black, Asian & Mixed Heritage communities.

Oliver Bonas is a Disability Confident Committed employer under the Disability Confident employer scheme.

To read more about our ED&I commitments, head over to the EDI page on our website: https://www.oliverbonas.com/meet-the-team/diversity

We are looking for a In Store Visual Merchandiser to join Team OB in our Cribbs Causeway store.

As an In-Store Visual Merchandiser at OB you will identify commercial opportunities in your store, maximise sales with visual merchandising actions and coaching with store management. Collaboratively with the Retail Team you will establish processes to support commerciality, operations and team development using creativity, organisation and communication.

Responsible for the store’s visual presentation, you’ll have a flair for design and VM in retail, understanding customer shopping habits and how to create a joyful customer experience. A passion for training is essential, as you will work with the store management team to develop the store’s visual presentation and the team’s understanding of it. You will report to the Store Manager and receive regular support from the Area Visual Merchandiser.

A bit about us …

At Oliver Bonas (OB), our values of Work Hard, Play Hard & Be Kind are integral to everything we do. Collaboration, imagination, curiosity, and teamwork are key to our success, and everyone has their part to play in making OB a special place to work.

Having fun is key, and a playful and positive approach creates an optimistic environment. We don’t take ourselves too seriously, but we are serious about what we do.

Our team knows their stuff. They’re confident and creative and unafraid to challenge convention to find solutions, taking accountability for their actions, but always with kindness and humility.

More about the role …

An OB In-Store Visual Merchandiser will:

• Ensure the shopfloor space is used to full capacity, working with store management to create an exciting customer journey and floorplan that showcases OB product within season and is regularly refreshed.

• Create eye catching displays taking inspiration from company guidelines that drive sales.

• Using key performance indicators (KPIs), you will collaborate with store management to drive sales with weekly floor walks, commercial analysis and effective time management.

• Plan visual actions, executing them quickly and efficiently from remerchandising new product, mannequin styling and window displays to floor moves.

• Feedback to Store Manager & Area Visual Merchandiser, communicating clearly and effectively, verbally and in written communication in weekly calls, handovers and floor walks.

• Alongside store management you will identify VM coaching needs of the team, guiding them on standards, resources, stock management and develop their VM skills, leading regular training sessions and delivering on the spot feedback.

• As a key member of Team OB you will lead by example, showcasing our customer values and delivering a joyful customer service experience.

• Have product knowledge and share this passion with our customers.

• Be a great role model for your team and support the training of your peers in collaboration with the management team.

• Have understanding all OB operational procedures and ensure these are followed by yourself and the team.

• Ensure the store remains a safe working environment, following the company health & safety and security guidelines each day.

• Uphold excellent housekeeping standards throughout the store and back of house, ensuring VM equipment is well maintained.

• Support other stores with visual merchandising actions and participate in new store opening set ups when required.

Bonas Benefits:

• Generous employee discount up to 60% off all OB products

• Free access to our 24 hour employee assistance programme with Care First – offering financial, emotional and vocational support

• Flexible holiday – 30 days (including bank holidays) – increasing to 35 days with length of service

• Annual discretionary profit related bonus scheme

• Auto-enrolment into our pension plan

• Cycle to work scheme

• Refer a Friend incentive

• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave

• Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity Voice network and EDI team

• Mental Health First Aider support

• Education and support throughout Looop eLearning platform

What we look for:

• Communicate effectively

• Demonstrate our company values

• Confidence in giving direction and sharing information

• Professional manner

• Positive attitude

• Great people skills

• Visual Merchandising experience across varied product groups

• Strong organisation skills

• Attention to detail

• Creative flare

• Problem solver

How to apply:

Please follow the look above

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at OB

At Oliver Bonas, our promise is to do our bit to make living a joyful experience and give cause for optimism. This promise is central to our work in equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). To bring joy to others, we must first ensure everyone at OB feels valued, included and most importantly, can be themselves at work.

It is important to us that our brand reflects wider society and the communities in which we operate. As a result, we welcome all eligible applicants for this role however we are particularly interested in speaking to eligible candidates from the Black, Asian & Mixed Heritage communities.

Oliver Bonas is a Disability Confident Committed employer under the Disability Confident employer scheme.

To read more about our ED&I commitments, head over to the EDI page on our website: https://www.oliverbonas.com/meet-the-team/diversity

Bright, enthusiastic Senior Sales Advisor wanted for our busy Cribbs store

This is a great opportunity for individuals who can lead and motivate a team to achieve a target- and enjoy being rewarded for it (there is a generous 10% bonus scheme!) 

You will lead the team to achieve sales targets whilst creating a unique and fun experience for the customer 

You will delegate and manage tasks including deliveries and merchandising whilst remaining positive and inspiring the team to achieve personal and store targets

The ideal candidate will be energetic, organised and driven and likes the challenge of running shifts. This is a great role for a student or individual wishing to work part time and who enjoys being accountable for success

Candidates will need to be available a minimum of 3 full days- 1 of which must be a weekend day)

Benefits:

• Generous Bonus Scheme (upto 10% of monthly salary)
• 50% Staff Discount (inc Vans and North Face)
• Flexible Rota

Hours:

• 16h per week

How to apply:

• If this sounds like you and you have experience leading a small team please send a cv with your hours of availability to Kelly_harfield@vfc.com

Due to the volume of interest anticipated if you have not received a response within two weeks than on this occasion you have not been successful