Customer Assistant - Travel Money - Hedge End
- Team
- In Store
- Store
- Hedge End
- Location
- Hedge End, Hampshire
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Position type
- Part Time
- Salary
- £12.60 p/h
- Closing date: 30th August 2025
Everyone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and differences that make you, uniquely you. And when you’re part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.
This section tells you all you need to know about the position and its responsibilities, outlining everything we hope to see in a successful candidate.
Working Pattern:
Week 1:
Sunday- 10:00 -16:00
Thursday- 10:00 - 16:00
Friday-10:00 - 16:00
Saturday- 11:00 - 15:00
Week 2:
Sunday- 10:00 - 16:00
Wednesday- 10:00 - 16:00
Thursday- 10:00 - 16:00
Saturday- 11:00 - 15:00
Purpose
· To deliver a great experience for your customers across Travel Money and other services, 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 Travel Money and other service channels brilliantly well
· Be the voice of our customer to help us continually improve
Key Accountabilities
· Demonstrate a genuine interest in your customers and build good relationships
· Serve our customers efficiently and brilliantly well
· 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 Travel Money knowledge and experience with colleagues to support others in building skill and confidence
· Own your 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 help our customers
· Proactively engage with customers to understand their needs and make recommendations
· Understand the store priorities and the part you play
· Complete all Travel Money tasks with pace, accuracy and in line with procedures
· Follow safe, legal and financial crime 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 and suggests improvements
· Effective at communicating; 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, recovering 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 profitability
· Work to get things done right first time within timescales
· Comprehensive knowledge of Travel Money channels
· Good level of product knowledge and other services
· 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 to delight
· Adapting to change
· Flexible and able to learn quickly
Key Relationships and Stakeholders
· Customers
· Colleagues
· Store Leadership
· M&S Bank Travel Money support team
· BIG
It’s important to us that our new colleagues feel supported in their roles and can learn from each other. That’s why we offer mentorship through our buddy system.
We’re a 24/7 business and our working patterns adapt to our customers’ needs. Worklife is our flexible working policy that gives colleagues the option for part-time working, a 4-day compressed week, or to job share if it’s in the best interests of everyone.
Here’s what to expect at each stage of the application process. This can change depending on the role you’ve applied to. If you need any reasonable adjustments made at any stage, let us know and we can help.
Fill in our short application form and hit submit.
We’ll invite you to take part in an online assessment. This could be before or after your interview.
We’ll invite you to an in-person assessment centre or an interview. This process may differ depending on the role you’ve applied to.
After we’ve decided, we’ll be in touch. If you’ve been successful, we’ll officially invite you to join the team and let you know the next steps.