Customer Assistant - Visual Merchandiser - Chesterfield Ravenside

Marks & Spencer Plc; Chesterfield; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in Chesterfield is seeking a Visual Merchandiser to enhance customer engagement through outstanding visual displays. You'll require strong styling skills and a good understanding of visual merchandising principles. The role involves dressing mannequins, ensuring presentation standards, and serving customers efficiently. Join our dedicated team to delight customers with fashion trends and outstanding service.

Qualifications

• Proven comprehensive styling skills applicable across visual elements.
• Strong knowledge of visual merchandising principles.
• Ability to adapt to change and spot selling opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a great shopping experience through exceptional visual display.
• Dress and style mannequins to agreed standards.
• Serve customers efficiently on the shop floor.

Skills

Comprehensive Styling skills

Knowledge of Visual Merchandising principles

Good level of digital capability

Job description

Overview

Join our team at M&S as a Visual Merchandiser in our Clothing & Home section, where you'll become a champion of our stylish products, and influencer of the latest trends. We're seeking passionate individuals who take pride in their eye for fashion and want to delight our customers every day.

Working Pattern

A full work pattern will be discussed with successful candidates at the interview stage of their application.

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

• Dress and style mannequins to agreed standard 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
• Works alongside C&H colleagues to ensure correct implementation of POS each season
• Serve our customers efficiently and brilliantly well – on the shop floor and at service points
• 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
• Being digitally confident is essential. You'll utilise our digital tools, such as the Sparks App, to enhance both the customer experience and ensure they get the products they want when they need them.

Key Capabilities

• Understands 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
• 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

• Comprehensive Styling skills which can be applied across instore 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 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

Key Relationships and Stakeholders

• Customers
• Colleagues
• Store Leadership
• BIG