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Join M&S as a Customer Assistant in our Fashion, Home & Beauty section, where you’ll play a vital customer-facing role in delivering a market leading customer experience. We’re looking for fashion-forward, confident people who are passionate about helping customers feel their best, whether that’s through 1 to 1 fitting & styling in suits, offering a bra fit experience focused on fitting and flattering the customers body shape or a tailor-made beauty routine. You’ll be someone who knows how to build rapport quickly, listens to customer needs, and confidently recommends products to sell more both in-store and online. At M&S, our customers don't wait. You’ll be operating in a high-demand environment, working with pace, no matter how busy the day gets. Interest in product area is important, experience or a qualification is beneficial but not essential as we will help you build expert product knowledge to sell and recommend our products and services You’ll create genuine 1 to 1 connection with customers through fitting appointments, giving style advice, consultations and tailoring your recommendations to their unique needs to deliver daily sales targets. Efficiency and effectiveness are non-negotiable. You’ll be committed to delivering excellence in the service you give while balancing speed and accuracy, even when our stores are busy. Being digitally confident is essential. You'll utilise our digital tools, such as the Sparks App and in-store devices, to provide a personalised five-star service. If you’re ready to take the lead in delivering exceptional service and bringing the M&S style experience to life, this is your moment. Take Your Marks and apply today. Purpose To deliver a great shopping experience for our customers, we are looking for colleagues who put customers before tasks every time whilst championing and promoting our brilliant products. As the face of the business, you will be the voice of our customers helping us to continually improve. Key Accountabilities Serve our customers efficiently, both on the shop floor and at service points Keep the store clean and tidy, ensuring that our shelves are always stocked with product Monitor and deliver on the daily sales targets, priorities, promotions and selling opportunities Proactively engage with customers to understand their needs, make recommendations and deliver remarkable service throughout their visit to store. Build expert product knowledge to sell and recommend our products and services We’ll give you the training to utilise all digital tools and communication channels to deliver for the customer every time Key Capabilities High levels of customer service Committed to delivering excellent work with great attention to detail Open to and acts upon feedback, asking for this regularly Takes accountability for planning and managing own workload efficiently Strong communication skills Adaptable to changing situations Builds positive relationships by being a good listener Good level of digital capability Everyone’s Welcome M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That’s why we’re revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact. We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working. If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment. About Us M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That’s why we’re revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact. We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process and we are happy to talk smart/flexible working. About the Team Retail: The sweeping innovations we’re rolling out at M&S will define a new era of retail. And we want you to help us introduce them to our customers. There’s never been a more exciting time to join M&S! We’ve embarked on a business transformation and are looking for people who are thrilled by the challenge of introducing innovative, new experiences to the retail world – and surprising every single customer with reasons to shop in our stores and online - day in, day out. By embracing our digital tools to enhance the customer experience and remaining adaptable – both to the needs of our customers and our retail business – you’ll live and breathe our approach to sales and service and will ensure every time is just as special as the next.
