Customer Assistant - Cafe - Preston Deepdale

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

Job summary

A leading retail company in Preston is seeking a Cafe Customer Assistant. You will deliver exceptional service in our café, utilize digital tools to enhance customer experiences, and work flexibly across the store. The ideal candidate is passionate about food trends and a strong team player. This role requires being over 18 years old due to equipment use. Join us to create a delightful dining experience for our customers.

Qualifications

• Passion for food and drink trends.
• Ability to work effectively across various areas.
• Must be 18 years or older.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a great shopping experience for customers.
• Serve customers efficiently on the shop floor.
• Utilize digital tools to enhance customer experience.

Skills

Customer service

Digital tools proficiency

Flexibility

Teamwork

Job description

Summary

Cafe Customer Assistant

All the details

Work Pattern
Week 1
Wednesday 12:00-17:30
Thursday 12:00-17:30
Friday 09:00 -14:45

Week 2
Monday 13:30-17:30
Wednesday 09:00-13:00
Friday 09:00-13:00
Saturday 09:00-13:00

Under 18 disclaimer
This job role involves working with specialist cutting equipment and this means we can't consider applications from anyone under the age of 18. This is to comply with the relevant health and safety legislation and to keep our colleagues safe in the workplace.

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

• To deliver a great shopping experience for their customers, putting customers before task 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 customer to help us continually improve

Key Accountabilities

• Serve our customers efficiently and brilliantly well - on the shop floor and at service points
• Deliver best in town' standards through presentation standards, availability and keeping the store clean and tidy
• Skilled to utilise all digital tools and communication channels to do the job
• Share customer and colleague feedback to help us do things better
• Share knowledge and experience with colleagues to support others in building skill 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
• Minimise cost and waste through good process practice
• Follow safe and legal working practices

Key Capabilities

• Understands how M&S operates, it's 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
• Sets performance objectives for self in conjunction with line manager and in line with business plans
• Takes accountability for planning and managing own work efficiently to ensure objectives are met
• Is curious and asks questions to challenge the status quo - ask why the company does things the way it does things
• 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 reaction for team
• Copes well with change and work challenges and recovers quickly from its impact
• Builds positive relationships by being a good listener and getting to know people by establishing a connection

Technical Skills/ Experience

• Contributing to store sales and cost control
• Work across the store to get things done right 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
• Adapting to change
• Good Knowledge of VM principles

Key Relationships and Stakeholders

• Customers
• Colleagues
• Store Leadership
• BIG