WBSTL: Retail Sales Associate - Warner Bros. Studio Tour - The Making Of Harry Potter

Warner Bros. Entertainment; Leavesden; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 14,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading entertainment studio in Leavesden is seeking a Retail Associate to enhance customer experiences at their world-famous studio tour. The ideal candidate should have excellent communication skills, initiative, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. This full-time role requires weekend availability, with shifts from 7 am to 10 pm, and offers a competitive hourly wage and various employee benefits.

Benefits

£12.60 per hour

25 days holiday (pro-rata)

Free access to on-site gym

Staff discounts on tickets and merchandise

Complimentary shuttle bus

Options for pension and healthcare schemes

Qualifications

• Experience working in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to engage proactively with visitors and colleagues.
• Capability to maintain customer service under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Engage with and assist customers proactively.
• Operate tills efficiently.
• Ensure product availability to customers.

Skills

Effective communication

Calm under pressure

Proactive engagement

Initiative

Job description

Overview

Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter is the only place in the world to showcase the authentic sets, props and behind-the-scenes secrets of the Harry Potter films at the location where they were made. It has attracted over 14 million visitors since opening in 2012, features retail stores with merchandise celebrating the Harry Potter film series and has received over 40,000+ reviews on TripAdvisor with 96% rating the experience as ‘excellent’ or ‘very good’. Since launching, additions to the Studio Tour include Platform 9 ¾ featuring the original Hogwarts Express, the Forbidden Forest and Gringotts Wizarding Bank. In December 2018, Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden acquired the Platform 9 ¾ group which sells Wizarding World merchandise, souvenirs, and collectibles.

Your New Role

At Warner Bros. Studio Tour London - The Making of Harry Potter, we pride ourselves in being renowned for our world class customer service and best in class products. What we want are naturally friendly, enthusiastic and all-round positive individuals who want to be proud of their work.

So, what makes a fantastic Retail Associate? You see a queue at the till? You jump on to reduce the customers waiting time. We’ve run out of Gryffindor Jumpers? You take the initiative and replenish them yourself. It’s about being positive, finding solutions, and having the confidence to do what’s right for our customers.

What’s in it for you?

• £12.60 per hour
• 25 days holiday (pro-rata)
• GymPass or free access to our on-site gym
• Exclusive access to our Screeners App, with our exciting Warner Bros. and HBO content
• Staff discounts on Studio Tour tickets, retail, food and beverage
• Access to Friends and Family events
• Free on-site staff car parking
• Complimentary staff shuttle bus between Watford Junction and our Studio Tour
• On-site staff Studio Café
• Option to join our pension and private healthcare schemes

Your Role Accountabilities

• Proactively engage with and assist our customers.
• Operating our tills in an efficient manner.
• Help to ensure products are available to customers at all times.
• Ensure our sales targets are achieved by fully maximising all sales opportunities.
• This role requires that you be able to lift, carry and move boxes. It is also a role in a very busy Tour where there is lots of visual and audio stimuli.

Qualifications & Experience

• Effective, confident communication, engaging proactively with visitors and colleagues.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment.
• The ability to keep calm under pressure.
• The initiative to identify jobs that need completed.
• An ability to work at pace whilst maintaining great customer service.
• Working Pattern
• We have multiple intake dates across the year which would require you to complete 2 weeks full time training (Monday-Friday), before starting your contracted hours.
• Contracts are for 32 or 40 hours per week, and you will be required to work weekends (Saturday and Sunday).
• Your normal hours of work are between 7am and 10pm. Occasionally working hours could run until 1am for events, for which you will be notified in advance.
• Availability to work late nights, events and to support stock replenishment.

Department Overview

Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter is the only place in the world to showcase the authentic sets, props and behind-the-scenes secrets of the Harry Potter films at the location where they were made. It has attracted over 14 million visitors since opening in 2012, features retail stores with merchandise celebrating the Harry Potter film series and has received over 40,000+ reviews on TripAdvisor with 96% rating the experience as ‘excellent’ or ‘very good’. Since launching, additions to the Studio Tour include Platform 9 ¾ featuring the original Hogwarts Express, the Forbidden Forest and Gringotts Wizarding Bank. In December 2018, Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden acquired the Platform 9 ¾ group which sells Wizarding World merchandise, souvenirs, and collectibles.

Onsite Working - This role is advertised as Onsite, meaning all working hours and days (regardless of shift pattern) will be carried out at the place of work. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement, where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.

How We Get Things Done

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at the guiding-principles site along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

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