Customer Assistant-Cafe-Shoreham reference: 5466271315

Cafe Customer Assistant

This is a permanent vacancy in our Cafe as a Host, working 20 hours per week.

Wk 1 Mon 1000-1500 Fri 1000-1500 Sat 1000-1600

Wk 2 Sun 1000-1600 Mon 1000-1500 Fri 1000-1500

We are looking for positive, engaging, and upbeat colleagues to deliver a 5 STAR experience to each, and every customer that enters our Cafe.

The main purpose of the Cafe host, is to create a world class, first impression for our customers, by greeting every customer that enters the Cafe with a warm, friendly hello, accompanied with a genuine smile, not forgetting to wish them a great day on their way out.

In addition to greeting customers, our Cafe host will be instrumental in terms of queue busting, and queue management. This will involve talking to customers within the queue, explaining the current wait times on hot food, and redirecting customers to each of the till lanes, in order to minimise customer wait time.

During down time, it’s important to stay productive, and efficient, and use this time to maintain the entrance standards of the Cafe. This would include creating a clean, tidy, and welcoming environment which is well kept, and well stocked, some examples of this, would be: Maintaining general floor cleanliness at the entrance, replenishing and tidying, the Cake table and front display chiller, to maintain customer availability.

Purpose

To deliver a great shopping experience for their customers, putting customers before task every time Champion new ways of working within stores through an open mindset and positive attitude Complete tasks and processes that deliver ‘best in town’ standards Serve and sell across all channels brilliantly well Be the voice of our customer to help us continually improve

Key Accountabilities

Serve our customers efficiently and brilliantly well – on the shop floor and at service points Deliver ‘best in town’ standards through presentation standards, availability and keeping the store clean and tidy Skilled to utilise all digital tools and communication channels to do the job Share customer and colleague feedback to help us do things better Share knowledge and experience with colleagues to support others in building skill and confidence Own their own learning & development and proactively access digital learning solutions Know the daily sales targets, priorities, promotions & selling opportunities Have great product knowledge to sell and recommend our products and services Proactively engage with customers to understand their needs and make recommendations Understand the store priorities and their part to play Complete tasks with pace and in line with SOPs Minimise cost and waste through good process practice Follow safe and legal working practices

Key Capabilities

Understands how M&S operates, it’s strategy, future and the role they play Committed to delivering excellent work fast with great attention to detail Open to and acts on feedback, asking for this regularly Sets performance objectives for self in conjunction with line manager and in line with business plans Takes accountability for planning and managing own work efficiently to ensure objectives are met Is curious and asks questions to challenge the status quo – ask why the company does things the way it does things Effective at communicating their intentions to others; ensures communication is clear and simple In control of their own reactions and considers how to share their perspective to create better reaction for team Copes well with change and work challenges and recovers quickly from its impact Builds positive relationships by being a good listener and getting to know people by establishing a connection

Technical Skills/ Experience

Contributing to store sales and cost control Work across the store to get things done right first time within timescales Comprehensive knowledge of customer shopping channels Good level of product knowledge and services across the store Up to date knowledge of the commercial operation and brilliant basics Good level of digital capability and use of digital tools and applications Understand customer needs and spot selling opportunities Adapting to change Good Knowledge of VM principles

Key Relationships and Stakeholders

Customers Colleagues Store Leadership BIG