Sales Assistant - Suomalainen Kirjakauppa Oy

Does providing the best customer experience bring you a sense of achievement? Does sales ignite an inner passion in you? We are now looking for a new colleague to join our sales team in JUMBO, KANNELMÄKI, and MYYRMÄKI. We are seeking an open and active colleague for a permanent employment contract (average weekly working time 5 h/week). Our service concept includes personal attention to the customer, offering new experiences, and sales work in accordance with Finland's Best Customer Experience. As a sales assistant at Suomalainen Kirjakauppa, your duties include active sales work as well as maintaining the store's appearance and other daily store tasks. We offer you a versatile and interesting sales role where you operate as part of an inspiring work community, boldly being yourself. We are a workplace where you can develop through your strengths, and we support your path as a future professional in specialty retail. As part of the Finnish Otava Group, we develop our operations long-term by implementing our values: responsibility, quality, courage, and proximity. Additionally, good employment benefits, such as staff discounts in Suomalainen Kirjakauppa stores and online store, ePassi, and leisure accident insurance, are available to all our employees. Remuneration is based on the retail collective agreement's demand class B and is determined by years of experience: €13.33/h - €15.26/h. We pay the following supplements for evening and weekend work: - Evening supplement after 6 PM: €4.18/h - Saturday supplement after 1 PM: €5.46/h - Work performed on Sunday is paid at double rate We primarily seek individuals with previous experience in store and cashier work, and we value an active, positive, and enthusiastic attitude toward sales work. You approach new tasks with an open mind and meet customers in the best possible way, even during busy periods. We expect you to be able to serve our customers fluently in Finnish, and proficiency in English is an advantage. You will have the opportunity to work in our other stores in the Helsinki metropolitan area, and we hope you are enthusiastic about taking shifts more broadly across Suomalainen Kirjakauppa stores. Shifts are scheduled according to store opening hours on both weekdays and weekends. We use a working time equalization system, so weekly hours may vary. Work in the store is done together as a team, as well as in situations where you are independently responsible for store operations. You will succeed here with a proactive work approach and a positive attitude! Interested? Send your application as soon as possible via the application link, but no later than July 30, 2026. Tell us what you would like to achieve with us and what you bring to our skilled team. If you wish, you can also send us a video greeting. We hope the person selected for the position will start in early September. We process applications in the order they are received. We may conduct interviews with potential candidates even before the application period ends, and the hiring decision will be made as soon as a suitable person is found. Therefore, act as soon as possible!