Sales Advisor

Hotel Chocolat; Ringwood; On-site; GBP 1,798,000 - 2,066,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hourly pay £13.05

Incentives based on performance

50% staff discount

70% discount on Hotel stay in St Lucia

Job summary

Hotel Chocolat in Ringwood is seeking a Sales Advisor who brings warmth, enthusiasm and a customer-first mindset to every interaction. You don't need previous retail experience; you’ll become a true brand ambassador, sharing our premium chocolates with customers and delivering memorable service.

You’ll handle transactions, support stock and store presentation, and upsell products while reflecting the brand’s values.

Qualifications

• No retail experience required.
• Must be passionate, enthusiastic and customer focused.
• Ability to communicate product knowledge and upsell when appropriate.

Responsibilities

• Greet customers and warmly welcome them into Hotel Chocolat.
• Understand customer needs and provide friendly, informative service.
• Demonstrate products and conduct tastings, checking allergens as needed.
• Close sales and recommend additional products such as gift bags.
• Process transactions, refunds and exchanges at the till.
• Respond to customer feedback and maintain a tidy store and café area.
• Assist with deliveries and stock to support store performance.

Skills

Customer focus

Brand ambassador

Enthusiastic

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, 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