Sales Assistant for a boutique footwear brand
Do you have a flair for fashion and a passion for shoes? Does offering style advice come naturally to you? If you also have previous experience working in a fashion sales assistant role tell us more!
We're recruiting for experienced sales assistants to join our boutique luxury footwear sales teams on a full or part time permanent basis. This role may be based in any of our four London stores in Mayfair, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Chelsea. Flexibility is key as we may require you to work at more than one location.
We can offer between 21-35 hours per week over 3 to 5 days per week. Please note you must be able to commit to working at least one weekend day per week. There may be potential for working occasional additional hours to cover holiday as and when required.
We offer a competitive benefits package including a generous footwear allowance and staff discount, 33 days' holiday per year including bank holidays (pro rated for part time contracts), a healthcare plan, life assurance, 5% employer pension contribution and a commission scheme.
To be invited for interview you must have previous experience in a high-end luxury fashion retail environment, and if you've worked in footwear before that would be a distinct advantage. You much also possess great communication and relationship building skills, along with strong sales skills.
No agencies please.
- Department
- Retail & Customer Services
- Role
- Customer Experience Assistant
- Locations
- King's Road, Elizabeth Street, Ledbury Road Store, Duke Street Store
Colleagues
Our Benefits
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🏄🏻♀️ 33 days paid holiday
We value that you get more time with your family and friends. Therefore we offer everybody 33 days paid holiday (including Bank Holidays).
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👢 Generous product allowance
We want our team to walk in PC and be advocates of the brand so each team member gets between 2-4 pairs of PC boots and/or shoes per year!
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💓 Life assurance
Offering our employees peace of mind that their named beneficiary will receive 4x the employee’s annual salary should the unthinkable happen.
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👩🏻⚕️ Healthcare cash plan
Helping our employees to cover various healthcare costs such as routine dental and optical care, prescriptions, complementary and alternative therapies; as well as help with getting specialist consultations, diagnostic tests and scans, counseling and health screening etc.
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💰 Pension
Helping our employees plan for the future, we offer a 5% employer contribution as part of our auto enrol pension scheme.
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🛍️ Salary Extras
Providing our team with a little extra help to make their salaries go further - Salary Xtras is a web portal offering discounted shopping, holidays, cinema & gym membership etc; cycle2work scheme; travel loans to spread the cost of commuting and an employee assistance service for unlimited access to specialist support e.g. legal and financial advice.
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🕺 Regular social & team events
We try to get together regularly to celebrate our successes as a team.
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🕐 Flexible working hours
We value work-life balance highly, therefore we try to be flexible with working hours where possible and many roles operate on a remote or hybrid basis - whatever works best for the individual, team and the company.
Workplace Culture
We encourage every employee to understand the importance of their contribution to the overall success of the business. Everyone has a role to play and we encourage regular performance reviews to help people to reach their full potential.
We all take responsibility for meeting the requirements of our individual and team roles and we don’t shy away from going above and beyond the call of duty when a situation warrants it, or when our colleagues need our help.
We acknowledge and respect that we are all different. We aim to build strong personal relationships and we value the different skills and attributes that make up a diverse and effective team.
We are all passionate about the areas in which we work and strive to be the best we can be in our individual fields. But that doesn’t come at the cost of stepping on each other to get there.
We care about the company and we care about each other and we believe in maintaining a creative, informal, friendly and engaging working environment.
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