Personal Shopper Bicester, England
Job description
Something Extraordinary Every Day™
As a Personal Shopper you are a key member of our Retail or Private Client Services team. You’ll support and facilitate sales from across our brand partners to our guests both face to face and virtually.
You’ll build up strong relationships with the guests in order to provide the most personal luxury shopping experience possible, enabling you and the team to meet or exceed targets.
As a Personal Shopper your responsibilities will include:
- Working towards an individual & group revenue target
- Talking directly with guests face to face or virtually & building your own client book
- Providing the highest level of luxury customer service at all times
- Analysing guest profiles & implementing a strategy to develop sales and retention
- Identifying sales opportunities and maximising sales conversion
- Building relationships with the internal retail team and our external brand partners to develop a complete understanding of services and products available to our guests
There’s no one quite like us
The Bicester Village Shopping Collection are the worlds’ leading luxury shopping destinations, and we are committed to creating magical and memorable experiences for our guests. Taking the name of the founding Village, The Bicester Village Shopping Collection distinguishes the 11 Villages in Europe and China as one collection of destinations for our guests, our brand partners, our travel and tourism partners, our corporate and financial media, and our internal teams.
What makes you special
Every colleague is an entrepreneur at heart, and this drives our organisational culture, which values invention, innovation and risk taking. To be successful with us, you’ll have:
- Previous experience as a Personal Shopper or Stylist within a luxury retail environment
- Proven track record of meeting and exceeding personal and team sales targets
- Extensive product knowledge & brand awareness in the Luxury goods, fashion, lifestyle market
- Social media savvy & confident learning new platforms and tools
A little bit about you
- You are ambitious, a proactive self-starter, always thinking of new ways to tackle challenges and thrives on pressure
- You are strategic and forward thinking; always keeping business goals in mind and can see the bigger picture
- You are passionate about selling & providing a luxury service; a great communicator, a people person who builds relationships at ease
- You are numbers driven, always motivated by sales targets and striving to exceed them
- You have a strong knowledge and understanding of the luxury fashion Industry
- You are always on top of the latest trends and upcoming brands in luxury fashion
- You are an analytical problem solver with excellent attention to detail
- You are highly organised and on top of your administration, enabling you to maximise your output and revenue generation
Why we’re exceptional
The key to our success is the quality and commitment of our people. To work in one of the teams at any of the Villages is to play an active role in redefining both the art and the science of retail. This creates a dynamic approach that underpins our ability to anticipate future trends in a fast-changing world. In return for your Authenticity, Critical Thinking, Innovation, Passion and Vision, you’ll receive a generous salary and we’ll also reward you by:
· Looking after you: You’re entitled to 25 days of annual leave (plus UK Bank Holidays) and your birthday off, plus extra leave if you are getting married or moving. We provide above industry average life assurance cover, income protection, pension, personal travel insurance, dental and eyecare, private healthcare, access to a virtual GP app, Employee Assistance Programme, cycle to work scheme and flu vaccinations
· Treating you: discounts throughout our villages, discounts with other retailers (known as My Choices) and a very generous employee referral bonus
· Championing you: you’ll be working within a creative and collaborative environment like no other, with the opportunity to develop your professional and personal skills while advancing your career.
Come and live your story with us
The Bicester Village Shopping Collection is made up of 1,200 colleagues of 50 nationalities. We are diverse in background, age, experience and leadership style. We believe that an inclusive workforce makes magic happen, and we welcome everyone - regardless of age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability or ethnicity - to be a part of our family.
Job Type: Full-time
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Bicester, OX26 6WD: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: One location
