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As a Service & Selling Coach in one of our John Lewis shops, you'll be helping to deliver a real difference to our customers through service they wouldn't find anywhere else.
You'll be using your expert knowledge to train and coach Partners so that they have all of the tools they need to provide the very best service John Lewis is known for. Ensuring customers return time and time again, earning their trust and loyalty for a lifetime.
Key Responsibilities
Helping our Partner to have all of the skills and knowledge they need to serve our customers is a really important role, on a day-to-day basis you'll be responsible for:
- Conducting engaging training/coaching sessions for Partners both as groups or individually to improve their service and selling skills.
- Providing Partners with constructive feedback to help their personal development.
- Being creative in the way you deliver training to cater for different learning styles.
- Planning and delivering inductions for new Partners.
- Delivering and supporting technical training which will be needed while working on the shopfloor (for example; headsets,devices, apps, new learning platforms, etc.).
- Staying up to date with your own learning and developing so you can champion the very best service associated with the John Lewis brand.
Essential skills/experience you'll need
- Confident in delivering coaching and training in different styles including as a group or individually and giving peer-to-peer feedback.
- Good computer skills enabling you to facilitate and produce training on different systems.
- Great customer service skills.
- Experience of working in a customer-facing selling/retail environment.
- Ability to plan and prioritise own time and workload.
Desirable skills/experience you may have
- Previous experience working as part of a team.
- Understanding and experience of learning platforms such as Workday, One Place Learning, and PDW.
- Stakeholder management to build relationships with colleagues and subject matter experts.
We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.
We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.
As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.
We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.
As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.
Important points to note:
It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.
We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.
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 possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.
We believe in ensuring our Partners have access to a complete spectrum of benefits whilst in the business. After all, our Partners make our Partnership what it is.
Learn a new skill or become more proficient in your hobbies by claiming up to half the cost of certain tutored courses which you pay for yourself (up to a maximum of £250 per year).
25% off at John Lewis and 20% at Waitrose. We know you’d like this one! (some exclusions apply)
From arts & crafts to fishing, from skiing to running, we have so many clubs and societies bringing Partners with shared interests together.
Enjoy a generous holiday provision. Plenty of time for some rest and relaxation. (The amount of holiday you’ll get depends on your role and working hours. It increases over time).
Secure your future with our comprehensive pension scheme and life assurance.
Recharge and reconnect at our exclusive Partner hotels in locations across the UK!
Learn a new skill or become more proficient in your hobbies by claiming up to half the cost of certain tutored courses which you pay for yourself
25% off at John Lewis and 20% at Waitrose. We know you’d like this one!
Enjoy a generous holiday provision. Plenty of time for some rest and relaxation.
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