We are looking for three people who love to be active and work as part of a team to join us for the busy Christmas period in our despatch department.

Position Responsibilities:

• Work within the team to pack and despatch coffee orders.
• Maintain a tidy packing station.
• Ensure paperwork for couriers is correct and labelled.
• Have all orders ready for collection by courier for an allocated time.
• Checking deliveries in and out of wholesale area.
• Washing and drying coffee crates.
• Putting together stock and coffee orders for our shops.
• Welcoming visitors onto the site, ensuring they are looked after and receive great service.

Required Skills and Qualities:

• Experience working within a team.
• Keen to work to a high standard of presentation and detail.
• Ideally experience with a job that involves repetitive tasks.
• Experience in a role that involves lifting, bending, twisting, etc would be advantageous.
• Willingness to learn and help out the team where necessary.
• Interest in coffee is not essential but would be great.

Required Availability:

This is a seasonal role and specific availability is required. Please read this section carefully and only apply if you can meet all of the criteria.

• Start date between 17-20 November.
• End date 23 December.
• Positions require availability to work 5 days per week, between Monday and Sunday.
• Availability on at least one weekend day is essential.
• Daily hours are either 0800-1630 or 0830-1700
• Available for Zoom interview w/c 27 October or w/c 3 November.
• Available for 4 hour paid trial shift w/c 3 November or w/c 10 November.

Position Details:

• Based in our Bermondsey roastery (SE16 4RA).
• Paid monthly.
• Pay is £14.70 per hour + bundled holiday pay. (Holiday will be accrued during the contract and paid out on leaving.)
• Fixed term / temporary contract.

How to apply:

Please email covering letter and up to date CV to work@monmouthcoffee.co.uk and include the job title in the subject line. Closing date for applications is 25 October.

We are looking for four friendly people who love hospitality to join us for December!
This role is all about looking after people, the shop and coffee. It involves all the usual shopkeeping activities such as stocking up, washing up and keeping the space looking tidy and clean, as well as supporting the permanent team to get all our customers a delicious cup or bag of coffee.
While the role is primarily service and hospitality focussed, we aim for everyone to feel like they have learnt a bit about coffee. We offer filter training and tastings with senior members of the team and the coffee buying team, plus a coffee bean allowance each week and a generous discount on everything else. This is a great opportunity to dip your toe into the world of coffee if you’ve been curious to see if it’s a career you might enjoy.

Required skills:

• A strong sense of hospitality and a desire to make people feel welcome.
• An interest in coffee.
• A positive attitude and willingness to get stuck in!
• Keen to do a physical job that involves being on your feet and lifting and carrying stock around.
• Experience in hospitality or coffee is prioritised but not essential.

Required availability and position details:

This position requires excellent availability. We are only able consider applications from candidates who are available 4-5 days a week, all Saturdays in December and Sunday 21st December.
Shifts are 8.5 hours long and candidates must be able to commit to early starts (6.50am) and later finishes (8pm).

Start date: Between 24 November and 8 December.

Contract length: Between 3-6 weeks.

Location: Based in Covent Garden, Borough Market and/or Bermondsey.

Pay: £15 an hour plus accrued holiday pay in final pay.

How to apply: Please email covering letter and CV to work@monmouthcoffee.co.uk with Christmas Helper 2025 in the subject. . Closing date 25th October (we will be interviewing in the weeks 27th October and 3rd November and trialling after that).

We are currently looking for a handful of talented and cheerful people to join us in our Covent Garden, Borough Market and Bermondsey shops. Some experience in coffee is preferred but we’re happy to consider candidates with a keen enthusiasm to learn about working professionally with coffee and customers.

Position Responsibilities:
As a retailer barista, your day would be filled with coffee and customers. The job divides generally into three parts:

• Sell coffee: We have 16 ever changing coffees on our retail counter all year round. Offering samples and tasting with customers is an integral part of the job. We are looking for people who will proactively seek to learn about coffee.
• Make coffee: Learn to make espresso and filter-based drinks to perfection each and every time. We work with La Marzocco machines and our own pour-over filter cones based on the Melita style.
• Be nice to people and look after the space! The usual shop and café duties: tills, clearing & dishes, stock management, etc.

Required Skills and Qualities:

• Previous experience in coffee, hospitality or a kitchen is preferred but not essential.
• A genuine interest in learning about coffee and looking after people, in equal measure.
• Enjoy drinking coffee yourself!
• Proven ability to provide exemplary customer focused service.
• Experience working well within a busy team.
• Self-motivated and keen to learn.
• Fluent English language skills, particularly speaking and listening.

Position details:

• Starting rate of £15 per hour.
• Staff cuppings and on-going training, including staff meetings with producers.
• 250g of coffee free each week plus an excellent discount on any extra coffee and merchandise.
• A generous pension contribution.
• Cycle to work scheme (available for e-bikes as well).
• 5.6 weeks of paid holiday each year.
• Contracts and guaranteed hours.
• Both full time (5 days per week) or part time (3 or 4 days per week) positions are available. Unfortunately, we cannot offer positions for fewer than 3 days per week.
• We work every Saturday; availability is essential.
• We work on a rota and everyone does their share of opening shifts (starting as early as 6.45am) and closing shifts (finishing at 8pm). Shifts change from week to week and full flexibility is required.

To apply:
Please send a covering letter and a CV to work@monmouthcoffee.co.uk with the job title in the subject line. We will only consider those applications that include both a tailored covering letter and a current CV. We aim to reply to everyone who applies, but there may be occasions when we are only able to reply to short-listed candidates.

Working fairly is at the very heart of what we do. We are committed to building a truly diverse and inclusive team. We look to continuously improve our recruitment and want to hear from anyone who is dedicated to working in service and coffee. We hope this makes you feel welcome to apply with us.