Team Manager - Fashion Beauty

As a Team Manager in Fashion, Home & Beauty, you’ll lead by example, driving performance, and helping reshape M&S for the next generation of customers.

You’ll be on the shop floor, inspiring your team to deliver standout style, sharp service, and commercial results, even on the busiest days. This is a role for people who move fast and continually raise the bar to deliver five-star service.

Are you ready to lead? Take your marks and get ready to apply.

• Support the growth and profitability of the store through the implementation of the retail plan and delivery of the KPI measures for their area of accountability
• Role model great customer service and ensure the delivery of a customer-focused service proposition through the team that delights our customers
• Recruit, and develop great talent and capability within the customer assistant team supporting the succession requirements of the store and region
• Ensure colleagues understand and are motivated to deliver their part
• Support the store to trade safely and legally, protecting Customers, Colleagues and the M&S brand
• Support the delivery of an inspirational, improved and consistent visual customer journey in store which inspires our customers to shop and buy more often

• Drive profitability and sales for their area through supporting the delivery of the Retail Plan and Store KPI’s
• Support the delivery and embedding of the business transformation plan and change initiatives for their area
• Deliver great standards and service by setting clear expectations with store colleagues
• Create the right culture, role modelling new digital ways of working and leadership behaviours
• Create a multiskilled team, coaching and training the team to fully utilise all the tools available to serve and sell well
• Deliver brilliant basics through the team
• Seek customer feedback and take action to deliver improvement
• Use data and insight to improve customer in-store experience, improve the operation and drive performance
• Support the delivery of Plan A
• Regularly review individual performance through quality conversations, managing underperformance where required and celebrating success
• Recruit for the team, ensuring new starters have a brilliant onboarding experience
• Deliver all line management activities in line with company process and policy
• Build an active working partnership with BIG, provide feedback and support the development of BIG reps
• Deliver operational excellence to maximise product availability, minimise stock and cash loss
• Ensure process and tasks are delivered in line with business expectations and operating standards, allocating resources accordingly
• Maintain a safe and legal store environment
• Support visual merchandising updates across all launches, events and campaigns

• Ability to lead a team to deliver excellent customer service and KPI’s across the store
• Create the right culture, role modelling new digital ways of working and leadership behaviours
• Has a good understanding and up to date knowledge of commercial, visual, operational and people processes and systems
• Uses all available data and MI to identify commercial, visual, cost savings & customer opportunities to increase profit
• Good working knowledge of VM principles
• Good level of digital capability and an understanding and use of all systems
• Good knowledge of the legal requirements across their area of accountability and the store
• Knowledge of our people policies and managing performance within a team
• The ability to have difficult conversations with effective resolutions with colleagues
• Good communicator and listener who will inspire, share their knowledge and best practices with others
• Ability to plan and review across the week and the month
• Ability to deliver under pressure demonstrating resilience
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across the store and region
• Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability to change, and the ability to lead teams through change with a growth mindset

• Successfully embeds change for lasting commercial impact and results
• Addresses beliefs and mindsets around resistance to change and supports colleagues in…