Sales Advisor

Hotel Chocolat; Colchester; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 19,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Hourly pay £13.05

Incentives based on performance

Staff discount 50%

Hotel stay discount 70%

Career progression

Job summary

Hotel Chocolat in the UK is hiring a Sales Advisor (Keyholder, 12 hours) to warmly welcome customers and share our premium products with a personal touch.

You don’t need prior retail experience—just enthusiasm, a customer-focused mindset and a willingness to learn. You’ll help with stock, till duties, and delivering an exceptional store experience across shifts.

Qualifications

• Frontline customer interaction and product knowledge.
• Ability to upsell and build rapport with customers.
• Willingness to learn our brand values and guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Greet customers and understand their needs with friendly conversation.
• Demonstrate products, offer tastings, and check allergens.
• Close sales and advise on additional products and gift options.
• Handle till transactions, refunds, and exchanges.
• Maintain store and café presentation and stock areas.

Skills

Customer service

Sales

Communication

Brand ambassador

Job description

Are you ready to join Hotel Chocolat’s exciting and ongoing journey as the UK’s favourite premium chocolate brand?

To join us as a Sales Advisor (Keyholder 12 hours), you don’t need retail experience to work here, just a commitment to being a true brand ambassador who is passionate, enthusiastic and customer focused.

You’ll love sharing our products with our customers with a warm and personal touch, ensuring that an amazing customer experience is delivered through excellent product and brand knowledge.

What You’ll be doing:

People are the reason you love retail! You’ll warmly welcome every customer and immerse them in the world of Hotel Chocolat.

Discovering your customers’ needs and reason for their visit through friendly conversation.

Delighting your customers through product demonstrations and tasting sessions, ensuring to check for allergens throughout your time with them.

Closing the sale and confidently recommending additional products such as gift bags.

Genuinely thanking your customer for shopping with us, ensuring they leave happy.

Processing transactions, refunds and exchanges at the till.

Responding to customer feedback.

Working with your team to support with deliveries and stock management, keeping the delivery area is kept clear and tidy in line with our health and safety guidelines.

Maintaining the appearance of the store and café areas to a high standard.

If your store has a café area, you will be preparing hot and cold drinks, ice creams and snacks according to our guidelines and processes whilst keeping the area immaculately clean. The customer experience is just as important, however given the pace of a café, you will focus on upselling to your customer.

Support where you can to the success of your store and team.

In return for going the extra mile every day, we’ll offer you:

• £13.05 per hour
• Incentives based on performance.
• 50% unlimited staff discount to treat yourself and your friends and family.
• 70% discount off a stay in our Hotel in St Lucia.
• A chance to develop yourself personally, working in an exciting, innovative and expanding company with real career progression.

About Us

We’re not just a chocolate company; we’re a family of chocolate lovers. From luxury gifts to our iconic Velvetiser™ and beyond, we’ve built a brand that’s all about crafting moments of indulgence. Our journey began as a humble mint company, but we soon found our passion for cacao and never looked back. Today, we’re proud to operate over 150 stores across the UK and continue to grow across categories, channels, and territories.

Patience, passion, and purpose drive everything we do – just like the perfect cacao pod, our success doesn’t happen overnight. It’s the result of hard work, innovation, and the shared dedication of our customers, colleagues, farmers, and suppliers.

To learn more about who we are and our People Pledge to equality, diversity, and inclusion, visit: hotelchocolat.com/uk/engaged-ethics/our-people.html