Acting as the voice of the customer, you’ll remove barriers to great in store experiences, shape new service and selling propositions, and lead transformation that delivers seamless, inspirational, and commercially impactful customer journeys. This role sits at the heart of Retail strategy, working across Property, Technology, Online and Store Operations.
What You’ll Do
- Act as the voice of the customer across the business, using insight, data, and industry trends to shape innovative omnichannel store experiences.
- Set and lead the store experience strategy, delivering propositions at pace that support the wider omnichannel service and selling agenda.
- Drive the adoption of technology and new ways of working to create seamless, future‑ready customer journeys across stores, .com, and property.
- Lead and develop the Store Experience team, ensuring strong day‑to‑day operations while balancing colleague efficiency and customer convenience.
- Partner across Retail, Property, Digital, and Technology to take omnichannel propositions from concept through to delivery, managing governance and change impact.
Who You Will Be
- A strategic, customer‑obsessed leader with experience delivering large‑scale programmes and transformational change.
- Highly influential, with the ability to engage senior stakeholders, cut through complexity, and create clarity and direction.
- Commercially minded, using customer insight and data to identify growth opportunities that drive revenue, margin, and loyalty.
- An inspiring people leader with strong communication skills, a growth mindset, and a passion for developing high‑performing teams.
- Curious, resilient, and future‑focused—always looking ahead and pushing boundaries to raise the bar for customer experience.
What’s in it for you:
Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.
- Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…
- 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.
Everyone’s welcome
We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.
We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.
If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.
Lead with purpose. Own the outcomes. Raise the bar. This is your store. And your chance to shape the future of M&S. Are you ready for it? Take Your Marks and apply today.