Overview
Join our team at M&S as a Customer Assistant in Beauty, where you'll become a champion of our luxurious beauty, makeup, and skincare products, offers, and third-party brands. We're seeking passionate individuals who take pride in their beauty knowledge and confidence with customers and are eager to share it every day.
Your primary focus will be on providing remarkable service and selling, being the face of our brands and ensuring that our customers are made to feel special every time they visit our stores. You'll actively engage with them to understand their beauty needs, ensuring they have a seamless shopping experience.
Responsibilities
* Be digitally confident. You'll utilise our digital tools, such as the Sparks App and in-store devices, to enhance the customer experience and ensure they get the products they want when they need them.
* Efficiency and effectiveness are key aspects of your role. You'll be a product expert, delivering to the highest standards in beauty consistently. You’ll be ready to roll your sleeves up, work hard and go above and beyond every day.
* Being a team player is crucial. You'll take responsibility for creating a great inclusive store environment, supporting and respecting your colleagues and our customers.
* Flexibility is also vital. You should be confident to work effectively across various areas of the store, adapting to the changing demands of the retail environment flawlessly.
* To deliver a great shopping experience for customers, putting customers before task every time.
* Champion new ways of working within stores through an open mindset and positive attitude.
* Complete tasks and processes that deliver ‘best in town’ standards.
* Serve and sell across all channels brilliantly well.
* Be the voice of our customer to help us continually improve.
* Serve customers efficiently and brilliantly – on the shop floor and at service points.
* Deliver ‘best in town’ standards through presentation, availability and keeping the store clean and tidy.
* Utilise all digital tools and communication channels to perform the role effectively.
* Share customer and colleague feedback to help us do things better.
* Share knowledge and experience with colleagues to support others in building skill and confidence.
* Own your learning and development and proactively access digital learning solutions.
* Know the daily sales targets, priorities, promotions and selling opportunities.
* Have great product knowledge to sell and recommend our products and services.
* Proactively engage with customers to understand their needs and make recommendations.
* Understand store priorities and your part to play.
* Complete tasks with pace and in line with SOPs.
* Minimise cost and waste through good process practice.
* Follow safe and legal working practices.
Qualifications
* Key Capabilities: Understands how M&S operates, its strategy, future and the role they play; committed to delivering excellent work fast with great attention to detail; open to and acts on feedback, asking for this regularly; sets performance objectives for self in conjunction with line manager and in line with business plans; takes accountability for planning and managing own work efficiently to ensure objectives are met; is curious and asks questions to challenge the status quo – ask why the company does things the way it does things; effective at communicating their intentions to others; ensures communication is clear and simple; in control of their own reactions and considers how to share their perspective to create better reaction for team; Copes well with change and work challenges; recovers quickly from its impact; builds positive relationships by being a good listener and getting to know people by establishing a connection
* Technical Skills/Experience: Contributing to store sales and cost control; work across the store to get things done right first time within timescales; Comprehensive knowledge of customer shopping channels; Good level of product knowledge and services across the store; Up to date knowledge of the commercial operation and brilliant basics; Good level of digital capability and use of digital tools and applications; Understand customer needs and spot selling opportunities; Adapting to change; Good Knowledge of VM principles
* Seniority level: Entry level
* Employment type: Part-time
* Job function: Other
* Industries: Retail
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