Customer Assistant - Visual Merchandiser - Gloucester Eastgate - Gloucester, Gloucestershire

Marks & Spencer; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job description

Customer Assistant - Visual Merchandiser - Gloucester Eastgate - Gloucester, Gloucestershire

Everyone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and differences that make you, uniquely you.

And when you’re part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.

Summary

To deliver a great shopping experience for our customers, putting customers before task every time.

Key Responsibilities

1. Dress and style mannequins to agreed standard each launch and throughout the season as required.
2. Deliver seasonal Window implementation.
3. Deliver ‘best in town’ standards through presentation standards, VM Principles, availability and keeping the store clean and tidy.
4. Work alongside C&H colleagues to ensure correct implementation of POS each season.
5. Serve our customers efficiently and brilliantly well – on the shop floor and at service points.
6. Utilise all digital tools and communication channels to do the job.
7. Share customer and colleague feedback to help us do things better.
8. Share knowledge and experience with colleagues to support others in building skill and confidence.
9. Own their own learning & development and proactively access digital learning solutions.
10. Know the daily sales targets, priorities, promotions & selling opportunities.
11. Have great product knowledge to sell and recommend our products and services.
12. Proactively engage with customers to understand their needs and make recommendations.
13. Understand the store priorities and their part to play.
14. Complete tasks with pace and in line with SOPs.
15. Minimise cost and waste through good process practice.
16. Follow safe and legal working practices.

Key Capabilities

1. Understands how M&S operates, its strategy, future and the role they play.
2. Committed to delivering excellent work fast with great attention to detail.
3. Open to and acts on feedback, asking for this regularly.
4. Sets performance objectives for self in conjunction with line manager and in line with business plans.
5. Takes accountability for planning and managing own work efficiently to ensure objectives are met.
6. Is curious and asks questions to challenge the status quo.
7. Effective at communicating their intentions to others; ensures communication is clear and simple.
8. In control of their own reactions and considers how to share their perspective to create better reactions for the team.
9. Copes well with change and work challenges and recovers quickly from its impact.
10. Builds positive relationships by being a good listener and getting to know people by establishing a connection.

Technical Skills/Experience

1. Comprehensive Styling skills which can be applied across instore visual elements and windows.
2. Strong knowledge of Visual Merchandising principles.
3. Contributing to store sales and cost control.
4. Work across the store to get things done right first time within timescales.
5. Comprehensive knowledge of customer shopping channels.
6. Good level of product knowledge and services across the store.
7. Up to date knowledge of the commercial operation and brilliant basics.
8. Good level of digital capability and use of digital tools and applications.
9. Understand customer needs and spot selling opportunities.
10. Adapting to change.

Key Relationships and Stakeholders

Customers, Colleagues, Store Leadership.

Job Overview

ID: 1410543

Date Posted: Posted 2 days ago

Expiration Date: 02/05/2025

Location: Gloucester

Competitive