Sales Associate at H&M in Costa Mesa, CA

Company Description

COS offers a wardrobe of ready-to-wear, and accessories rooted in exceptional quality and lasting design. The brand has an elevated aesthetic that embodies luxury with an emphasis on craftsmanship, innovation and compelling fashion movements.

Job Description

As the Sales Advisor, you are the friendly face that greet our customers and embody the heart of our brand.

You'll have the opportunity to provide customers with high-level service at every turn. From initiating conversations to assisting at the cash desk, fitting rooms and throughout the shop floor, you'll play a vital role in enhancing the shopping experience. Your responsibilities will also include processing deliveries, replenishing stock and merchandising the latest garments on the shop floor.

Your role is essential in creating welcoming experiences that showcase the best of our brand. With warmth and enthusiasm, you'll guide our customers through their journey, offering genuine assistance and proactive service to uplift and inspire. Together, in collaboration with your team, you’ll create moments that matter.

While previous experience in customer service and familiarity with fabrics are nice to have, they're not mandatory.

Qualifications

• Customer-focused: You enjoy engaging with people and are committed to delivering excellent service.
• Adaptable and flexible: Adaptable and responsive to changing priorities and customer requests.
• Action-oriented: Proactive and driven to take initiative and get things done with quality.
• Strong communicator: You have a genuine interest in people, communicate clearly, and actively listen to understand others perspectives and needs.
• Eager to learn: Open to feedback and always looking for opportunities to grow and develop.
• Brand enthusiast: You have a real passion for our brand and collection, and love sharing that enthusiasm with customers.
• Schedule flexibility: Willing and able to work varied hours, including evenings and weekends.

Preferable but not mandatory

• Understanding of store operations & customer service skills from previous retail experience
• Confident in offering customers advice on fashion trends, materials, sizing etc

Additional Information

• This is a Part-Time position 10 - 20 hours
• Compensation ($20/hr)

Benefits

We’re committed to supporting our employees with a range of attractive benefits and valuable development opportunities. As a member of our team, you’ll enjoy a 25% staff discount across all H&M Group brands—available both in-store and online. Additionally, every employee is included in our H&M Incentive Program (HIP), designed to reward your contributions and support your growth within the company. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here. 

In addition to this US based colleagues also receive: 

• Employee Assistance program (EPA)
• Vacation/Wellness, Holiday, and Parental Pay
• 25% Staff Discount
• Commuter Benefits
• Pet Insurance (enrollment)
• Plus, additional Voluntary Benefits

Inclusion & Diversity

COS is a part of H&M Group. At H&M Group, we’re determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organization. Our teams should consist of a variety of people that share and combine their knowledge, experience and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, on what we perceive possible and on how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world. Hence all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process.  

We strive to have a fair and equal process and therefore kindly ask you not to attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that easily can trigger unintentional biases. 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

H&M Fashion USA, Inc. – Maki Assessment Tool:

We use an online assessment tool called Maki for skills-based selection of applicants for sales advisor positions within some of our stores. Maki is not an automated decision-making tool. Rather, it is a tool that uses an AI-created avatar to present to you a set of multiple-choice questions. These questions are prepared by the H&M hiring team to assess candidates’ ability to perform the duties of the position for which they are applying. The assessment calculates your total score based on predefined point values provided by our H&M team. The hiring team will review your whole application, including your assessment score, to decide whether to advance each candidate to the next stage. Doing the assessment is optional. If you choose to complete the assessment, your score will be one factor that the hiring team considers.

If you have any difficulties or concerns with the online assessment method, you can request an alternative method of assessment by contacting recruitment_support@hm.com. Choosing an alternative method will not affect your chances of being considered for the position, nor does any assessment method provide an advantage or disadvantage in the selection process. You will have the opportunity to provide optional feedback immediately after the assessment and you may always ask questions.

When you take the assessment, we collect your responses and use this information to evaluate your suitability for the role to which you have applied. The answers are saved in your applicant profile. We do not sell the information captured in the questionnaire and do not use any personal information to train any AI models. Our applicant tracking system provider has access to this information but is contractually prohibited from using it for any other purpose.During this process, we may collect information from you through cookies, with your consent. This may include details such as your electronic network activity information (IP address, timestamps, and device identifiers). This information is accessible to our hiring team but is otherwise kept confidential. For more information, please refer to our Cookie Notice.

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