Customer Assistant - Warehouse Operative - Newport Isle Of Wight

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

Job summary

A prominent retail company is seeking a Customer Assistant in Operations in Newport, UK. The role involves maintaining store operations, providing excellent customer service, and keeping the shop floor stocked. Successful candidates will need strong communication skills and digital capability. Flexibility and teamwork are essential for this role, which aims to enhance the shopping experience for customers.

Qualifications

• Ability to engage with customers and understand their needs.
• Experience in managing own workload efficiently.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing store needs.

Responsibilities

• Serve customers efficiently on the shop floor.
• Keep the store clean and tidy while stocking shelves.
• Monitor daily sales targets and selling opportunities.
• Build expert product knowledge to recommend products.

Skills

High levels of customer service

Good level of digital capability

Strong communication skills

Attention to detail

Job description

All the details

Work Pattern

Monday: 18:15 - 22:15
Wednesday: 18:15 -22:15
Thursday: 18:15 - 22:15
Saturday: 17:00 - 21:00

Join our team at M&S as a Customer Assistant in Operations, where you'll play a vital role in keeping our store running smoothly behind the scenes. We're looking for hardworking individuals who take pride in ensuring our products are delivered, organised, and ready for our colleagues and customers.

You'll be responsible for accepting deliveries, unpacking goods, and preparing crates to ensure our shop floor is always fully stocked. Through your efficiency and agility, you'll help create a seamless shopping experience by keeping products available for our customers at all times.

At M&S, our operations team ensures our store runs like clockwork, so you'll need to be ready to roll up your sleeves and keep things moving.

Being digitally confident is essential. You'll use our in-store systems and tools to track deliveries, manage stock, and make sure our products are exactly where they need to be.

Being a team player is crucial. You'll work closely with colleagues from across the store to ensure a smooth operation, supporting your team and helping to create an inclusive environment.

Flexibility is also vital. You should be confident working across various operational tasks and be ready to adapt to the changing needs of the store.

Are you ready for it? Take your marks and get ready to apply.

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.