Stylist, Personal Shopping

Role Responsibility

As a Stylist, you will:

• Maintain and encourage a positive ‘can do’ atmosphere which is conducive to high production levels and excellent quality of work 

• Flexibility and strong ‘all-rounder’ qualities preferable. 
• Obtain a wide variety of styling techniques across all types of wear, including but not limited to, fitting and technical knowledge. 
• Attention to detail is crucial when styling customers, maintaining a consistently high quality of imagery is essential. 
• Deal with client enquiries in a polite, professional and timely manner.
• Actively listen to client’s brief and take notes.
• Ask relevant questions to establish specific requirements.
• Adapt to client’s style and recommend appropriate brands and looks.
• Prepare a thoroughly curated collection edit.
• Inspire and boost client’s confidence and guide client through decision making.
• Excellent brand and competitor knowledge across Women's and menswear, ranging from High Street to Super Brands, and everything in between. 
• Draw inspiration from a variety of fashion media to influence styling ideas, helping the Selfridges experience remain fresh and forward thinking. 
• To maintain understanding of trends and utilise this knowledge on a daily basis to execute intelligent and informed looks. 
• Maintain key relationships with your customer to ensure brands are represented correctly for optimum customer experience.    
• Making sure any products are handled with care throughout 
• Work efficiently and develop cross departmental relationships. 

Lead and inspire, living the Selfridges values

The Ideal Candidate

This role requires a person with excellent brand knowledge and a very strong creative visual focus, as well as possessing strong organisational skills and attention to detail.

• Experience in Styling in a customer centric environment
• Good communication skills and able to give and take direction 
• Strong fashion and brand/competitor knowledge 
• Tailoring knowledge and technical capability is essential 
• Excellent attention to detail 
• Strong organisation skills, with a pro-active ‘can do’ attitude 

Package Description

Personal Shopping Stylist

As a Stylist, you will help implement and interpret the Selfridges creative vision through the styling of customers within Personal Shopping. You will continually strive to improve not only the quality of experience, but also the productivity and efficiency within the department. This role requires a person with a good mix of organisational skills and attention to detail while also having thorough brand knowledge and a strong Creative eye.  You will understand and maintain best practices, not only to achieve very high standards of styling and imagery but also to maintain an extraordinary customer experience.  

About the Company

Our Creative Spirit 

We are more than a shop. We are a social space where culture and commerce collide to release an energy that we call the Selfridges spirit. We are here to make our world brighter, and everyone is welcome. 

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.

Our Future 

Since 1909 we have been at the forefront of retail and today our stores in London, Manchester and Birmingham – alongside selfridges.com and the Selfridges App – continue to redefine the way we shop and socialise. As a Selfridges team member, you will learn what it takes to consistently drive innovation, success and amazing customer experiences. 

Everyone is welcome

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive working culture, and we see this as key to our success and our working culture. Here at Selfridges, everyone is welcome - irrespective of race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, age or disability, we stand by equal opportunities for all. We are diverse, we are inclusive, we are Selfridges.

The Fun Stuff  

There are lots of reasons to be excited about joining Team Selfridges – from our fantastic team member communities to volunteer days and behind-the-scenes Selfridges experiences throughout the year. 

Other benefits and rewards include:

• Generous bonus and/or commission scheme 
• Discounted gym memberships 
• Pension contributions  
• Annual travel pass and cycle to work schemes 
• Up to five paid volunteering days
• Access to a wide range of training programmes to help your career development

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