Christmas Customer Assistant - Food - Clacton Brook Park

Marks and Spencer; Tendring; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading retail company is seeking a Customer Assistant in their Foods section. You will serve customers, maintain store presentation, and recommend products. This role emphasizes high-quality service and building strong customer relationships. Suitable candidates should be passionate about food, adaptable, and ready to deliver extraordinary service.

Qualifications

• Passionate about M&S Food products and excited to share knowledge.
• Ability to work efficiently and meet changing demands.
• Committed to delivering excellent work with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Serve customers efficiently on the shop floor and at service points.
• Keep the store clean and ensure shelves are stocked.
• Engage with customers to understand their needs and deliver remarkable service.

Skills

High levels of customer service

Strong communication skills

Good level of digital capability

Job description

Overview

Join our team at M&S as a Customer Assistant in our Foods section, where you'll become a champion of our high-quality products, great value offers, and excellent customer service. We're seeking passionate individuals who take pride in their knowledge of M&S Food products and are excited to share it with our customers.

You'll be a brand ambassador who's ready to recommend our newest Food products. Through remarkable service you'll make sure our customers feel truly valued every time they shop with us.

At M&S our customers don't wait, you'll be ready to roll your sleeves up, work hard and go above and beyond every day.

Working Pattern

• Sunday - 15:00-19:00
• Monday - 18:00-22:00
• Tuesday - 18:00-22:00
• Wednesday - 18:00-22:00

Due to operational requirements, all successful candidates will be asked to work up to full time during the weeks commencing 14th and 21st December.

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.

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