Store Experience Manager

Location
Contract type
Permanent
Position type
Full Time
Salary
Competitive + Benefits
Closing date: 18th July 2026
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Introduction

About the role

This section tells you all you need to know about the position and its responsibilities, outlining everything we hope to see in a successful candidate.

Summary
In this role, you will lead the day-to-day operation and continuous improvement of the food payment and service proposition across 600+ stores, ensuring consistent delivery to agreed standards.

You will own and improve the end-to-end payment experience across stores, reducing customer friction, improving flow, and driving productivity through data-led insight, change delivery, and a customer-focused sales and returns journey. Working closely with stakeholders across Retail, Property, Trading, Operations, Customer Service, Finance, and Technology, you will use insight, influence and feedback to deliver practical improvements for both customers and colleagues.
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What You’ll Do

Lead the food payment experience: Own the end-to-end in-store payment journey, collaborating with key stakeholders to identify and reduce friction for both customers and colleagues. Execute the peak payment plan ensuring stores are equipped to deliver peak transaction uplifts.

Drive performance: Improve transaction speed, queue flow, and ease of payment using transactional data. Optimise resourcing in payment areas, including peak trading periods, maintaining a credible M&S payment module.

Use data to influence decisions: Analyse transactions, complaints, and customer insight to build evidence-led recommendations. Develop both capital and Operational Expenditure business cases to support investment in tilling and payment infrastructure.

Deliver change: Lead the rollout of key payment initiatives, such as tilling and Scan & Shop investment, technology upgrades and new initiatives and translate strategy into clear, practical actions for stores.

Work closely with the property transformation team ensuring the payment propositions in new and renewal stores aligns to blueprint. Engage and coach stores ensuing a successful launch.

Drive continuous improvement: Work with stakeholders to identify, test, and scale practical in-store solutions, landing improvements quickly through strong cross-functional collaboration.

What Good Looks Like

Faster, simpler payment journeys in store

Strong colleague understanding and adoption of change.

Measurable productivity and cost improvements to support the retail plan

Complaints reduced and customer feedback improving.

What You’ll Bring

Proven leadership experience in retail and operations, with a strong focus on delivery, standards, and results.

A genuine passion for the customer, continually seeking to understand and improve every aspect of the experience.

A strong data mindset, with the ability to turn insight into action through influencing key stakeholders or coaching of store leadership

A clear communication style, with the ability to simplify priorities for stores.

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.

Lead with purpose. Own the outcomes. Raise the bar.

Benefits

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Proactively representing LGBTQ+ issues and opportunities to deliver a truly inclusive place to work and shop for our colleagues and customers.

Health and Wellbeing Network

Providing a safe space for colleagues with all types of health conditions or disabilities and supporting with business initiatives to ensure our stores are truly accessible for our customers.

Gender Equality Network

Addressing gender-related challenges, raising awareness, and driving action to ensure equal opportunities for all.

Menopause Network

Initiating and encouraging open conversations about menopause by offering support and sharing experiences.

Family & Carers Network

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Culture and Heritage Network

Raising awareness of various religions and cultures through events and comms, to educate others and better represent our M&S colleagues and customers.

How to Apply

Here’s what to expect at each stage of the application process. This can change depending on the role you’ve applied to. If you need any reasonable adjustments made at any stage, let us know and we can help.

Store Experience Manager

Contract type
Permanent
Position type
Full Time
Salary
Competitive + Benefits
Closing date: 18th July 2026
Reference: 120558