Online Assistant - Immediate Start, Part-time
Sainsbury'sOverview
Be Sainsbury's's magic ingredient this Christmas as an Online Assistant by being part of the team that picks and delivers online customer orders to their doorsteps. This is a fast-paced, hands-on role, helping to make good food joyful to all Sainsbury's's customers and deliver plenty of seasonal cheer.
As an Online Assistant, you could be on the shop floor picking Sainsbury's's customers’ orders, taking real care to select the best quality products and making every effort to give them exactly what they have asked for. Alternatively, you could be working in Sainsbury's's online warehouse, supporting with customer queries, processing orders through the tills, and even working with Sainsbury's's online Drivers to load their vans so they’re ready to hit the road on time. Whichever area you’re working in, you’ll take pride in doing the right thing for Sainsbury's's customers and have a keen attention to detail.
It’s important you are also comfortable working with new technology and being active, including lifting and moving shopping containers up to 15kg. Sainsbury's aim to make everyone who joins Sainsbury's be the best they can be and are committed to being a fully inclusive retailer where Sainsbury's's customers love to shop, and Sainsbury's's colleagues love to work.
While many of Sainsbury's's roles will be temporary over the festive period, there may also be permanent opportunities available. Please check the contract type and schedule hours before applying to ensure that the role is right for you.
Shift hours:
- Monday: 08:00 - 04:00
- Tuesday: 08:00
- Thursday: 04:00 - 08:00
- Friday: 04:00 - 08:00
If the shifts for this role cover hours earlier than 6 am or later than 11 pm, you will need to be at least 18 years of age.
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Discounted gym membership
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Nightshift premium - an additional £2.45 for every hour worked between midnight - 5 am (where applicable)
- 10% discount off on your shopping at Sainsbury’s, Argos, Tu and Habitat after four weeks, increasing to 15% every Friday and Saturday
- Free food and hot drinks provided for colleagues in all Sainsbury's's stores
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Shopping discounts on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers, and more
- Generous maternity and paternity leave
- Pension contributions matched between 4-7%
- Share schemes allowing purchase of shares at discounted prices
- Wellbeing support through Sainsbury's's Employee Assistance Programme
Sainsbury's will only recruit individuals who have passed the school leaver’s age. To find out the school leaver's age for your country, please visit the government website.

J Sainsbury plc, trading as Sainsburys, is a British supermarket and the second-largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury with a shop in Drury Lane, London, the company was the largest UK retailer of groceries for most of the 20th century.