Sales Associate Christmas Period

**02.10.2024**

Sales Associate Christmas Period - Boutique Firenze

Contract type: Temporary

Country/Region: Italy

City: Firenze, Florence

Job: Retail

Experience: Minimum 1 year

Company: Hermès Italie SpA

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Job description

**GENERAL ROLE**

The Sales Associate is in charge of assisting clients through personalized and memorable customer Experience, with storytelling about the brand history and the product craftsmanship. He/She provides the most memorable customer experience to develop sales and build long lasting relationships with clients through heartfelt and bespoke attention, with highest integrity.

**MAIN RESPONSABILITIES**
- Advise and support customers on all product categories to satisfy clients’ needs and ensure the most memorable omnichannel experience;
- Be a storyteller, suggesting and surprising, delivering quality and consistency of service to develop client relationships and sales services;
- Support customers providing all type of information, including aftersales product care suggestions;
- Develop and maintain a customer portfolio through a proper client discovery and a bespoke experience in order to foster loyalty and establish long-term relationships;
- Collect and update client data, in accordance with privacy policy and company procedures;
- Play an active role in customers’ events and animations whenever needed;
- Build a solid product knowledge, keeping updated with novelties, prices and stock availabilities.

**PROFILE**
- Bachelor’s degree preferably with a fashion/linguistic focus;
- Fluency in Italian and English. A third language will be considered an advantage;
- Professional background: experience in the direct sales to clients, preferably in a luxury good boutique;
- Proficient with Excel / IT tools;
- Willing to work temporarily. The **fixed-term** contract is estimated to cover the Christmas period for three or four months with expected **full-time** working hours.
- Professionalism, enthusiasm, dynamism, ease of integration and teamwork complete the profile.

Hermès engages positive and passionate people who own the following requirements:

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a customer service orientation;
- Team player mentality to build meaningful relationships and ability to work autonomously;
- Availability, flexibility and dynamism to function in a high-pace environment;
- Determined to be part of a people centric retail project, for which is required vocation for human values, passion and a strong aesthetic sense.

About the Hermès Group

A creator, artisan and seller of high-quality objects since 1837, Hermès is an independent, family-owned French house that employs nearly 20,000 people worldwide. Driven by its permanent entrepreneurial spirit and consistently high standards, Hermès cultivates the freedom and autonomy of each individual through responsible management. The company perpetuates the transmission of exceptional know-how through strong territorial anchoring that respects people and resources. Sixteen artisanal métiers feed the creativity of the house, whose collections are presented in over 300 stores around the world.

About the entity
- Hermès was born in Paris in 1837 as a laboratory of harnesses and saddles for horses: since then, six generations of artisans have explored new crafts, animated by a creative impulse, combined with beautiful and processed with care material.- Today Hermès is an international group committed to innovation in a subtle harmony between past, present and future. It is a company founded on high standard values of dedication to excellence and authenticity of its objects. An independent family house that pursues its French artisan tradition: Hermès creates, sells and manufactures beautiful, useful and durable objects.- The company brings together more than 20.000 employees in 50 countries; the Italian branch is located in Milan and provides the local support and management to the 10 Stores present in the country.- Hermes Italie was born in 1987 with the first store in Milan, 21 via Sant'Andrea. Since then the branch was opened and the continuous growth lead to the current retail presence in the country: 10 stores, including 2 seasonal openings and 2 flagship stores, located in Milan and Rome.