Deputy Store Manager

Deputy Retail Store Manager - Food Convenience Retail
£16,000 - £18,000 per annum
Job Details

This is an exciting opportunity for dynamic and driven retail, leisure or hospitality managers to progress their career with one of the UK's largest blue chip food retailers. If you are currently a deputy or assistant manager, department manager, duty manager or supervisor in a retail store environment - and are looking for long term development, training, progression - and investment in your future, then this is the opportunity for you!

While ideally you will already have experience in retail, leisure or hospitality in a management or supervisory position, it will be your commitment, passion and drive to deliver high retail standards and motivate your team to provide and maintain excellent customer service, which will set you apart from your retail colleagues - and make you the ideal candidate for our clients retail management training programme.

Whatever your background, you're now ready to meet the challenge of driving one of our clients convenience food retail stores, and your own retail management career to further success and high rewards. Our client wants to meet people capable of leading and motivating their teams to achieve ambitious performance targets. You'll understand the emphasis they place on customer satisfaction, and the measures they can utilise to ensure that it is continually achieved. You're also a highly co-operative person who can work effectively with your Retail Store Manager, as well as managing the Retail store in their absence. In return you will receive a competitive basic salary, a highly rewarding and achievable bonus package, everyday rewards and third party benefits, and the opportunity to progress and develop your own retail management career through the companies supportive and structured training programmes.

Our Client

Our client is a well known blue chip convenience food retailer and is the employer of choice for over 79,000 people, they believe in creating a working culture that promotes trust, respect, diversity, inclusion and integrity - one in which each individual is valued and given every opportunity to fulfil his or her full potential. Despite the vast geographical range and huge variety of their operations, there is a common set of values firmly in place across all levels of their organisation and wherever they are working in the world.

That means you will be part of an open, forward-thinking and constructive global company which is committed to your personal well-being, plays a positive role in the communities in which it works, respects and cares for the environment, and aims to conduct its business dealings openly and with integrity.

Ideal Candidate

Experience of Retail Management, in food retail, would be an advantage, although any retail, hospitality or leisure management background will be considered. The main requirement is the ability to motivate your retail store team.

You'll demonstrate a range of skills and experience including:

•Strong people management skills
•Experience within a performance driven environment
•Dedicated to excellence in customer service
•Committed to retail operational excellence
•Genuine desire to achieve results through the management of others
•Drive and ability to manage others effectively
•Have a genuine passion for setting and achieving exceptional retail store standards
•Problem solving and decision making
•Effective planning and time management
•Passionate about driving sales
•Understand own key performance indictors and how to drive the commerciality of a retail store
•Strong communication skills
•Strong people management and coaching skills

Minimum Requirements for this role are:

•To be 18 or over
•Legally entitled to work and be resident of the UK

This role is being handled by McCarthy Recruitment, award winning specialist retail recruitment consultancy covering the whole of the UK. McCarthy is like no other recruitment agency you willhave worked with, our difference is our commitment to providing a professional and personalized recruitment service of the highest quality.

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