Customer Assistant - Warehouse Operative - Lytham St Annes Simply Food

Marks and Spencer; Lytham St Annes; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in Lytham St Annes is seeking a Customer Assistant to ensure the store operates smoothly. This physically demanding role involves managing deliveries, stock, and maintaining a clean environment for customers. Successful candidates will demonstrate excellent customer service, effective communication, and digital proficiency. This is a fast-paced role requiring adaptability and teamwork. Join this dynamic environment and help create a remarkable shopping experience.

Qualifications

• Must be 18 years or older to comply with health and safety regulations.
• Ability to handle physically demanding tasks.
• Flexibility to work across the store as needed.

Responsibilities

• Serve customers efficiently on the shop floor and service points.
• Keep the store clean and tidy, ensuring shelves are stocked.
• Monitor and deliver on daily sales targets and promotions.
• Engage proactively with customers to understand their needs.
• Build expert product knowledge and make recommendations.

Skills

High levels of customer service

Strong communication skills

Good level of digital capability

Attention to detail

Job description

All the details

Working Pattern

Week 1:
Sunday- 06:00-12:30
Tuesday- 05:00-11:30
Thursday- 05:00-11:30
Saturday- 05:00-11:30

Week 2:
Monday- 05:00-11:30
Wednesday- 05:00-11:30
Thursday- 05:00-11:30
Friday- 05:00-11:30

Please note that the + £3.00 p/h unsocial premium is only added on any hours worked between 22:00-06:00.

Under 18 Disclaimer

To comply with health and safety legislation and keep our colleagues safe in the workplace, colleagues in this role must be 18 years of age or older.

Join our team at M&S as a Customer Assistant in Operations, you'll be the backstage powerhouse of our stores. It's a physically demanding, high-intensity role that keeps our stores running like clockwork. If you're ready to roll your sleeves up and work smart, this is the role for you.

You’ll be responsible for stock, deliveries, and all the vital behind-the-scenes work that ensures our shop floor stays full, clean, and ready for our customers to shop. There's no room for delay. You’ll be fast, focused, and always one step ahead, keeping the flow of products moving with urgency and accuracy.

Flexibility is vital. You'll work across the wider store where needed - always keeping up with the pace and demands of retail.

Being digitally confident is essential. You'll use digital tools confidently to track deliveries and manage stock efficiently, always focused on availability and speed.

Being a team player is essential. You’ll be a key cog in a big machine, working across functions and supporting colleagues across the store.

This is a role for people who move with purpose. Are you ready for it? Take Your Marks and apply today.

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.