Luxury Fashion Sales Assistant

Luxury Fashion: Sales Assistant

WHO WE ARE?

Sign of the Times is London’s leading pre-owned luxury marketplace with over 45 years of experience buying and selling pre-owned designer goods. We are on an exciting growth journey to share our vision of making the resale experience better than retail. Trading both in store and online to our global client base it’s a busy and fun working environment. Our London in-store team prides themselves on delivering the highest level of customer service. They are industry experts with exceptional styling skills.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are looking for a reliable, hard-working and confident fashion lover with a good attitude and a big smile. The role would be ideal for someone with customer service experience, with a ‘can do’ attitude and a big smile to welcome clients to our pre-loved luxury pop up store. Someone who is both excellent at selling and can offer exceptional customer service. As this is a retail role you will be expected to work a total of 5 days a week with one weekend day included.

The role:

• Meeting, greeting and personally styling discerning, fashion forward customers
• Building up a strong relationship with loyal and much loved clientele
• Upselling and cross-selling to the customer to help them find what they’re looking for
• Shop floor standards, tidying and organising the store.
• Encouraging customers to also shop from our website and signing up to our mailer.
• Achieving the weekly target

Reporting to:

Operation Manager

Requirements:

• At least 1 year experience in luxury or fast paced fashion retail environment
• Bubbly, warm and confident holding and making conversations
• Great people skills and a focus of going over & above for clients
• Excellent communication, organisation, reliability and attention to detail
• Proven sales track record
• Perfect written and spoken English
• A can-do attitude, warm disposition, and a big smile
• A desire to remain and grow with the company
• A passion for Luxury Fashion
• A basic understanding of current trends and luxury brands
• Excellent multitasking skills and able to work accurately at a fast-pace
• A basic understanding of Microsoft programmes such as Word & Excel

Employment Type

• Part-time 32hrs

Salary

Salary starting from £11.53 hourly.

Benefits :

• Company pension
• Employee discounts
• Commissions based on performance

Work location :

John Lewis Sloan Square

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent

Pay: From £11.53 per hour

Expected hours: 32 per week

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Weekend availability
• Weekends only

Supplemental pay types:

• Performance bonus

Application question(s):

• Tell us about your passion for fashion?
• Give us an example of your best sale in a previous role? Can you provide references?
• Can you confirm that you can commute to Chelsea Green, London on a daily basis?
• Are you happy to work during the weekend? (one day, Saturday or Sunday)

Work Location: In person