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As a Team Manager in Fashion, Home & Beauty, you'll lead by example, driving performance, and helping reshape M&S for the next generation of customers.

You’ll be on the shop floor, inspiring your team to deliver standout style, sharp service, and commercial results, even on the busiest days. This is a role for people who move fast and continually raise the bar to deliver five-star service.

• Own your department from layout and product to service and performance. You'll make bold decisions to drive sales and service.
• Coach and develop your team. You'll set the pace, build capability, and create a high performance culture that's focused, fast, and collaborative.
• Use commercial insights to lead with confidence – understanding the numbers, trends, and opportunities that will make your department thrive.
• Flexibility is vital, and you'll be agile in your approach. This is a transformation environment – things move fast and we need leaders who move faster.

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

• Support the growth and profitability of the store through the implementation of the retail plan and delivery of the KPI measures for their area of accountability
• Role model great customer service and ensures the delivery of a customer focused service proposition through the team that delights our customers
• Recruit, and develop great talent and capability within the customer assistant team supporting the succession requirements of the store and region
• Ensure colleagues understand and are motivated to deliver their part
• Support the store to trade safely and legally, protecting Customers, Colleagues and the M&S brand
• Supports the delivery of an inspirational, improved and consistent visual customer journey instore which inspires our customers to shop and buy more often

• Drive profitability and sales for their area through supporting the delivery of the Retail Plan and Store KPI's
• Supports the delivery and embedding of the business transformation plan and change initiatives for their area
• Delivers great standards and service by setting clear expectations with store colleagues
• Create the right culture, role modelling new digital ways of working and leadership behaviours
• Create a multiskilled team, coaching and training the team to fully utilise all the tools available to serve and sell well
• Deliver brilliant basics through the team
• Seeks customer feedback and takes action to deliver improvement
• Uses data and insight to improve customer instore experience, improve the operation and drive performance
• Support the delivery of Plan A
• Regularly review individual performance through quality conversations, managing underperformance where required and celebrating success
• Recruit for the team, ensuring new starters have a brilliant onboarding experience
• Deliver all line management activities in line with company process and policy
• Build an active working partnership with BIG, provide feedback and support the development of BIG reps
• Deliver operational excellence to maximise product availability, minimise stock and cash loss
• Ensure process and task is delivered in line with business expectation and operating standards allocating resource accordingly
• Maintain a safe and legal store environment
• Supports visual merchandising updates across all launches, events and campaigns

• Ability to lead a team to deliver excellent customer service and KPI's across the store
• Create the right culture, role modelling new digital ways of working and leadership behaviours
• Has a good understanding and up to date knowledge of commercial, visual, operational and people processes and systems
• Uses all available data and MI to identify commercial, visual, cost savings & customer opportunities to increase profit
• Good working knowledge of VM principles
• Good level of digital capability and an understanding and use of all systems
• Good knowledge of the legal requirements across their area of accountability and the store
• Knowledge of our people policies and managing performance within a team
• The ability to have difficult conversations with effective resolutions with colleagues
• Good communicator and listener who will inspire, share their knowledge and best practices with others
• Ability to plan and review across the week and the month
• Ability to deliver under pressure demonstrating resilience
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across the store and region
• Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability to change, and the ability to lead teams through change with a growth mindset

• Successfully embeds change for lasting commercial impact and results
• Addresses beliefs and mindsets around resistance to change and supports colleagues in adapting
• Takes ownership and accountability for the success of their team
• Spends time coaching colleagues to accelerate performance and personal growth
• Recognises high performance and supports poor performers to improve
• Shows colleagues why they matter to M&S, their part to play in delivering the plan and what the results of their work are
• Uses customer feedback and market trends to guide teams work
• Helps teams understand information and business messages by actively seeking out opinions and asking questions
• Uses a combination of channels and technology to communicate, ensuring timely, clear and open communication with colleagues
• Seeks the best solution for M&S by proactively collaborating with colleagues from across the business

• Customers
• Colleagues
• Store Leadership
• Regional Leadership
• BIG

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We're disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We're transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process,please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the 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 smart/flexible working.

Retail: The sweeping innovations we're rolling out at M&S will define a new era of retail. And we want you to help us introduce them to our customers. There's never been a more exciting time to join M&S!

We've embarked on a business transformation and are looking for people who are thrilled by the challenge of introducing innovative, new experiences to the retail world - and surprising every single customer with reasons to shop in our stores and online - day in, day out.

By embracing our digital tools to enhance the customer experience and remaining adaptable – both to the needs of our customers and our retail business – you'll live and breathe our approach to sales and service and will ensure every time is just as special as the next.