Customer Assistant - Stylist - Dumfries

Summary

Customer Assistant - Stylist - Dumfries

Work Pattern

Week 1
Tue - 1100-1500
Wed - 1000-1700
Fri - 0700-1500
Sat - 0700-1600

Week 2
Sun - 1100-1500
Tue - 0700-1600
Wed - 1000-1700
Fri - 0700-1500

Purpose

• To deliver a great shopping experience for customers, putting them before tasks 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 customers to help us continually improve.

Key Accountabilities

• Dress and style mannequins to agreed standards each launch and throughout the season as required.
• Deliver seasonal window implementation.
• Deliver 'best in town' standards through presentation standards, VM principles, availability, and keeping the store clean and tidy.
• Work alongside C&H colleagues to ensure correct implementation of POS each season.
• Serve customers efficiently and brilliantly well - on the shop floor and at service points.
• Skilled to utilize all digital tools and communication channels to perform the job.
• Share customer and colleague feedback to help us improve.
• Share knowledge and experience with colleagues to support others in building skills and confidence.
• Own their own learning & development and proactively access digital learning solutions.
• Know the daily sales targets, priorities, promotions, & 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 the store priorities and their part to play.
• Complete tasks with pace and in line with SOPs.
• Minimize cost and waste through good process practice.
• Follow safe and legal working practices.

Key Capabilities

• Understand 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.
• Set performance objectives for self in conjunction with the line manager and in line with business plans.
• Take accountability for planning and managing their own work efficiently to ensure objectives are met.
• Be curious and ask questions to challenge the status quo.
• 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 reactions for the team.
• Copes well with change and work challenges and recovers quickly from its impact.
• Build positive relationships by being a good listener and getting to know people by establishing a connection.

Technical Skills/Experience

• Comprehensive styling skills that can be applied across in-store visual elements and windows.
• Strong knowledge of visual merchandising principles.
• Contributing to store sales and cost control.
• Work across the store to get things done right the 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.
• Adapt to change.

Key Relationships and Stakeholders

• Customers
• Colleagues
• Store Leadership
• BIG