Personal Stylist

Job description

Job Type

Customer Service

Location

Edinburgh

Partnership Level

9

Closing Date

17/11/2024

Vacancy Type

Permanent

Salary

£24,400.00 - £28,000.00 Annual

Salary Frequency

Annual

Hours of Work

Varied hours (36.5 hours per week) across seven days to include early starts, late finishes, evenings and weekends.

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We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where it is possible to do so. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.

Our Purpose

Working in Partnership for a happier world – our shared Purpose that guides us in everything we do and inspires 3 important principles; happier people, happier business, happier world. The John Lewis Partnership is a truly unique business, one that seeks to make a positive difference to the lives of everyone.

Duties and Responsibilities:

As Partners - members of the Partnership - it's our responsibility to ensure our success for the future. We proactively seek out opportunities to continuously improve the way we work, taking action to ensure the Partnership is efficient and we are all as productive as possible. It's an ethos each and every Partner works by and you'll carry into your own role too.

Do you love all things fashion?

Now has never been a better time to join our Personal Styling team at John Lewis. Working as part of a team in the dedicated Style Studio, this role would involve facilitating a range of six different styling appointments for our customers, using social media to influence and coaching our fashion Partners across the shop floor to promote the services available.

Having your own individual style profile, customers will be able to select you for appointments, giving you the ability to build your own client base across womenswear and menswear. You will use knowledge and expertise in colour analysis, body shape profiling and consultative selling to generate sales across the fashion floors and deliver a market leading customer experience.

Job Requirements:
The successful candidate would lead the way in both styling and influencing, having their own unique style with the ability to help others find their true style. and support our customers in becoming the best version of themselves.

You will embody customer centricity adapting your appointment to the needs of your customer and ensuring they leave the branch with an unforgettable market leading customer experience.

Desirable experience skills and qualifications:
- Ability to style across both womenswear and menswear.

Desirable experience skills and qualifications:
- Completed the John Lewis Personal Styling training programme or at least 5 days formal training with a recognised image consultancy.
- Experience in colour analysis, body shape profiling and fashion styling.

Additional Information:
As a Partner you will enjoy our unique benefits package, including staff discount, subsidised food in Partner dining rooms, discounts in local restaurants, subsidised learning, access to exclusive Partnership hotels and so much more.

Please consider the following when making your application:
- This role is subject to the following pre-employment screening: 2 year reference check.
- We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we recommend you apply early.
- Print off the job description now if you require it.
- Ensure you have an up-to-date CV.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Personal Stylist will play a critical role in the fashion team providing our customers with inspirational styling advice
through creating Fashion related ‘theatre’, experiences and events in our shops.

At the John Lewis Partnership, we embrace our differences. We want you to be you. Because, well, we know you're at your best when you're free to be yourself. Being a truly inclusive employer to us means creating an environment which celebrates your contribution, regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, social background, religion or belief. It's why we've set our own aim to become the UK’s most inclusive business - for our Partners (employees) and our customers. We firmly believe that our future success lies in diversity of thought from all Partners and it's integral in our mission to build a happier world. We welcome applications from everyone interested in working for us. And, once you're a Partner, your differences will make all the difference. Find out more about D&I in the Partnership here - https://www.jlpjobs.com/about/diversityandinclusion/