Sales Associate

Do you find success in providing the best customer encounter? Are you interested in flexible work that can be well fitted into other life events? We are looking for a new colleague for our Kotka and Hamina sales teams. We seek an open and active colleague for shifts to be called in as needed. On offer is a flexible job on your terms, where shifts may become available on short notice. Our service concept includes personal attention to the customer, offering new experiences, and sales work according to Finland's Best Customer Encounter. As a salesperson for Suomalainen Kirjakauppa, your duties include active sales work as well as taking care of the store image and other daily store tasks. We offer you a versatile and interesting sales job where you operate as part of an inspiring work community, boldly as yourself. We are a workplace where you can develop through your strengths and we support your path as a future professional in specialty trade. As part of the Finnish Otava Group, we develop our operations long-term by implementing our values: responsibility, quality, courage, and proximity. Remuneration is based on the commerce collective agreement requirement class B and is determined by years of experience: €13.33/h - €15.26/h. For evening and weekend work, we pay the following supplements: - Evening supplement after 6 PM: €4.18/h - Saturday supplement after 1 PM: €5.46/h - Work performed on Sunday is paid double We primarily seek a person with previous experience in store and cashier work and above all, we value an active, brisk, and enthusiastic attitude towards the salesperson's work. You approach new tasks with an open mind and do your best to serve the customer in sales work, even in the middle of a rush. We expect you to be able to serve our customers fluently in Finnish - Swedish and English language skills are seen as an advantage. Your shifts are located according to the stores' opening hours on weekdays and weekends. Shifts are worked both with colleagues and working independently. If you have, in addition to the above, the desire and enthusiasm to ensure the success of your entire team in terms of both work tasks and team spirit, you may be the person we are looking for! Interested? Send your application as soon as possible via the application link, but no later than August 13, 2026. Tell us what you would like to achieve with us and what you bring with you to our competent crew. You can also send us your video greeting if you wish. We process applications in the order they are received and may contact persons invited for interviews during the application period, but no later than the week following the end of the application period.