 
        
        Work Pattern
Sunday 11.00-16.00
Saturday 11:00 - 16:00
Due to operational requirements, all successful Candidates will be asked to work up to full time during the weeks commencing 14th and 21st December.
Join our team at M&S as a Customer Assistant in our café, where you'll become a champion of our delightful food and drink offerings, offers, and services. We're seeking passionate individuals who take pride in their knowledge of the latest food and drink trends and are eager to share it with our customers.
You'll be a brand ambassador who’s ready to recommend and promote our delicious café menu. Through remarkable service you'll make sure our customers feel truly valued every time they shop with us.
· Being digitally confident is essential. You'll utilise our digital tools, such as our digital menus 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 ensuring that our customers don’t wait while maintaining high standards in food safety and hygiene 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 café environment, supporting and respecting your colleagues and our customers every day.
· 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 seamlessly.
Are you ready for it? Take your marks and get ready to apply.
Purpose 
 1. To deliver a great shopping experience for their customers, putting customers before task every time 
 2. Champion new ways of working within stores through an open mindset and positive attitude 
 3. Complete tasks and processes that deliver ‘best in town’ standards 
 4. Serve and sell across all channels brilliantly well 
 5. Be the voice of our customer to help us continually improve 
Key Accountabilities 
 6. Serve our customers efficiently and brilliantly well – on the shop floor and at service points 
 7. Deliver ‘best in town’ standards through presentation standards, availability and keeping the store clean and tidy 
 8. Skilled to utilise all digital tools and communication channels to do the job 
 9. Share customer and colleague feedback to help us do things better 
 10. Share knowledge and experience with colleagues to support others in building skill and confidence 
 11. Own their own learning & development and proactively access digital learning solutions 
 12. Know the daily sales targets, priorities, promotions & selling opportunities 
 13. Have great product knowledge to sell and recommend our products and services 
 14. Proactively engage with customers to understand their needs and make recommendations 
 15. Understand the store priorities and their part to play 
 16. Complete tasks with pace and in line with SOPs 
 17. Minimise cost and waste through good process practice 
 18. Follow safe and legal working practices 
Key Capabilities 
 19. Understands how M&S operates, it’s strategy, future and the role they play
 20. Committed to delivering excellent work fast with great attention to detail 
 21. Open to and acts on feedback, asking for this regularly 
 22. Sets performance objectives for self in conjunction with line manager and in line with business plans 
 23. Takes accountability for planning and managing own work efficiently to ensure objectives are met 
 24. Is curious and asks questions to challenge the status quo – ask why the company does things the way it does things 
 25. Effective at communicating their intentions to others; ensures communication is clear and simple 
 26. In control of their own reactions and considers how to share their perspective to create better reaction for team 
 27. Copes well with change and work challenges and recovers quickly from its impact 
 28. Builds positive relationships by being a good listener and getting to know people by establishing a connection 
Technical Skills/ Experience 
 29. Contributing to store sales and cost control 
 30. Work across the store to get things done right first time within timescales 
 31. Comprehensive knowledge of customer shopping channels 
 32. Good level of product knowledge and services across the store 
 33. Up to date knowledge of the commercial operation and brilliant basics 
 34. Good level of digital capability and use of digital tools and applications 
 35. Understand customer needs and spot selling opportunities 
 36. Adapting to change 
 37. Good Knowledge of VM principles 
Key Relationships and Stakeholders 
 38. Customers 
 39. Colleagues 
 40. Store Leadership 
 41. BIG
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