Description
As Deputy Store Manager for Visual Merchandising, you’ll work alongside the Store Manager to deliver the retail plan while leading the creative direction for Fashion, Home & Beauty. You’ll combine commercial focus with visual expertise to deliver layouts, displays, and customer experiences that drive sales and reflect the M&S brand. You’ll also take responsibility for ensuring the store trades safely and legally at all times, with knowledge and oversight across every department.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the visual merchandising strategy for Fashion, Home & Beauty, ensuring brand standards are consistently met.
- Partner with the Store Manager to deliver commercial, operational, and people performance targets.
- Ensure the store trades safely and legally, meeting all compliance requirements.
- Use trading data and customer insight to make confident decisions on space, layout, and promotional execution.
- Coach and develop teams, building capability and fostering a high-performance culture.
- Maintain knowledge and oversight across all departments to support store performance.
Benefits:
- 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
- Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days.
- Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
- A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
- A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
- Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
- Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
- Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
- A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.