Personal Stylist

jlp; Greater London; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

John Lewis & Partners in London is seeking a Personal Stylist to join the Style Studio, delivering inspiring styling consultations and fashion insights to walk-in customers.

You will champion colour analysis, body-shape profiling and consultative selling, create fashion theatre on the shop floor, and uphold the John Lewis brand across teams.

Qualifications

• A passion for fashion and styling.
• Excellent customer service skills that allow you to build rapport with customers.
• Great organisation skills to organise your own diary of scheduled appointments.

Responsibilities

• Navigate the wide range of brands we offer to find pieces that our customers will love.
• Use your knowledge of colour analysis, body shape profiling and consultative selling to generate sales across the fashion floor.
• Support your department when required with general shop-keeping tasks and excellent customer service.
• Engage new customers through social media channels and use your creative skills to create 'fashion theatre' on the shopfloor which can help drive and maximise sales and profit.
• Be an ambassador for the John Lewis brand.

Skills

Fashion passion

Customer service

Diary management

Social media

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Working as part of a team in the dedicated Style Studio as a Personal Stylist, you'll play an active role in achieving our brand ambition. You'll conduct exciting and inspirational styling consultations for our customers, host style talks, share fashion trends and offer instant style advice to our 'walk-in' customers.

Your love of fashion will help our customers find pieces they will fall in love with, delivering a unique and memorable experience that is personalised and sees customers returning time and time again.

In addition to your contractual pay, any time worked between 22:00 - 06:00 will attract Night Premium at a rate of £4.25 per hour. This will also apply to existing Partners who have enrolled onto Enhanced Hours Premium arrangements.

Key Responsibilities

• Navigate the wide range of brands we offer to find pieces that our customers will love.
• Use your knowledge of colour analysis, body shape profiling and consultative selling to generate sales across the fashion floor.
• Support your department when required with general shop-keeping tasks and excellent customer service.
• Engage new customers through social media channels and use your creative skills to create 'fashion theatre' on the shopfloor which can help drive and maximise sales and profit.
• Be an ambassador for the John Lewis brand.

Essential skills/experience you'll need

• A passion for everything fashion and styling.
• Excellent customer service skills that allow you to build a rapport with customers.
• Great organisation skills to organise your own diary of scheduled appointments.

Desirable skills/experience you may have

• Experience in using social media platforms to create content and engage audiences.
• We'll make sure you have all of the other training you need to perform at your best, everyday.

Closing Date: September 12, 2026

Pay: £31,300.00 - £37,000.00 Annual

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours of Work: Full time vacancy (30 hours per week) across seven days to include early starts, late finishes, evenings and weekends.

Job Level: Partnership Level 9

Where You'll Be Working: Peter Jones (John Lewis & Partners), Sloane Square, London, London, SW1W 8EL

ABOUT THE PARTNERSHIP

We're the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We're not just employees, we're Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there's never been a more exciting time to join us.

We're ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we're free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Important points to note:

It's important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you'll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.