Digital Personal Shopping Regional Support Ops Assistant

Job Introduction

Selfridges has always been much more than a shop. We’re a social space where everyone is welcome and feels a sense of belonging, a creative playground where culture and commerce collide, and an experimental hub where you can discover the most innovative and sustainable ideas in retail. We’re here to help make the world brighter. And you can be an important part of this. We’ll talk more about the role below, but before we get to that, let’s share with you the good stuff…  

Rewards and benefits 

Life at Selfridges is dynamic, exciting, and always evolving. As well as working with some of the most cutting-edge, iconic and boundary-pushing brands, designers and creatives, we also offer our team members opportunities to help make a positive difference through our network of communities, both within and outside Selfridges. Here are just a few of our rewards and benefits that help make our team experience that bit more extraordinary. 

• Flexible working options to benefit you, your family and your wellbeing that can include part-time, flexi-time, job sharing or hybrid working

• Generous annual leave that increases with length of service 

• Up to five paid volunteering days – from beach cleans to co-ordinating food and clothing donations 

• Family leave that suits your set up including Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, Surrogacy and Shared Parental leave policies 

• Defined pension contribution scheme  

• Generous bonus and/or commission scheme  

• Enviable team member discount including sale previews and double discount days 

• Exclusive local discounts on a range of restaurants, bars, beauticians and entertainment 

• Subsidised gym memberships  

• Annual travel pass and cycle-to-work schemes  

• A sustainable car salary sacrifice scheme 

• Several internal communities to get involved in from our Diversity Board and Green Warriors who are leading the charge on D,E&I and sustainability, to the Wellbeings who are always thinking of new ways to champion healthy minds, bodies and routines for our team members 

• Workplace Options, our confidential team member assistance programme for when life gets tricky or you need a little guidance 

• Access to a wide range of training programmes to help your career development 

Read on to find out how you can play your part in Reinventing Retail… 

Role Responsibility

As a part of our successful and expanding Digital Personal Shopping team, we are looking for a Regional Support Assistant who can work with Personal Shopping Consultants from all our UK stores to drive service and product access to all our Personal Shopping Client and VIP clients. As an expert on all things Selfridges you will utilise all our tools, sales channels and inventory to deliver the best product to clients wherever they or their Shopper are located.

• Collaborate with Personal Shoppers and Assistants both in Oxford Street & regional stores to effectively support operations, acting as a helpdesk to any queries with a key focus on store-to-store stock transfers, and remote sales
• Working cross-functionally to open up opportunities for regional stores to offer alternative brands and products, providing inspiration to the wider network of shoppers to offer to their clients
• Work with Operations Managers and Merchandising on creating the operational framework to strengthen stock managements, raising POs’ and managing the transfer process for Personal Shopping between stores
• Build and maintain good relationship with stakeholders and concessions to ensure operational efficiency
• Prepare and create reports and feedback for the business on the performance of PS Client transfers, remote selling successes and overall incremental sales increase for the business

The Ideal Candidate

• A strong interest and experience in multi brand luxury sales, with a passion for learning about everything Selfridges has to offer our top tier clients
• Great analytical skills, able to visualise and organise data
• Collaborative, working with key stakeholders to simplify ways of working
• A great communicator. You have good communication skills and can build professional and lasting relationships
• Customer-focused, putting your customers at the heart of everything you do
• Pragmatic and solutions orientated, breaking down complex problems and providing innovative solutions
• Flexible – able to adapt your style to suit different situations

About the Company

Everyone is welcome 

Selfridges is a place where we want everyone to feel a sense of belonging. We embrace every self and are committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive working culture. We are leading with purpose to not only increase the visibility and recognition of under-represented talent within our organisation, but the wider industry too. Here at Selfridges, everyone is welcome – irrespective of race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, age or disability, we stand by equal opportunities for all.   

Our awards cabinet  

We’re not ones to brag, but since you asked...Selfridges has won the award for The World’s Best Department Store an unprecedented four times at the IGDS awards, with an additional award for the Best Sustainability Campaign. We were also recognised as a ‘Best 25 Big Company to Work For 2020’ as awarded by The Sunday Times. 

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