Retail Store Manager - Banbury

STORE MANAGER - FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY

THE ROLE

As a Store Manager your role is primarily to take responsibility for managing all areas of the business and driving sales and profitability. In this position you will lead and direct the store team to achieve all targets set for the store, ensuring consistent delivery of profit and the brand. You will represent our client in a positive, motivated and enthusiastic manner in line with their company core values. This is a superb opportunity to join a market leader in a high profile position and to assume responsibility for ensuring the success and profitability of a high turnover store.

This is a challenging role where you'll be responsible for running your own store with 150 employees and a sales turnover of up to £12 million. This means you'll be fully accountable for driving sales and exceeding profit targets, developing and implementing business plans and communicating targets and objectives to your team.

To succeed you'll need to be an experienced retail manager with a clear sense of purpose and direction. Able to motivate and inspire a team and effectively prioritise tasks, you'll ensure outstanding customer service is delivered. Bring your passion for people, desire to exceed expectations and first class interpersonal skills.

Key Responsibilties

• Achieve sales and profits targets
• Analysis of profit and loss accounts
• To manage store operations so that customer proposition is delivered through store systems and procedures
• To plan, organise and execute in store systems that comply with company processes, core values and best practice
• Manage the set up and maintenance of seasonal guidelines and planograms to ensure the every day delivery of customer service
• To recruit, train and develop the store team to consistently provide product availability and responsive, efficient, friendly and knowledgeable customer service
• Responsible for optimising the performance of the store by enhancing the offer in line with competitor activity, local needs and seasonal opportunities whilst delivering the customer service
• Manage and deliver and exceed required level of sales as set by the company
• Manage stock management systems, delivery of productivity and shrinkage targets
• To ensure that at all times the store is safe and fully compliant with Health, Safety and Fire policy, procedures and retail legislative requirements

IDEAL CANDIDATE

Experience as a Store Manager. This is a great opportunity to progress your management skills and have autonomy over your own store with a leading retailer. A passion for customer service and proven track record in managing and leading people, with experience of training and developing a store team through effective performance management is preferred. You will be KPI driven and understand market trends, customers and the competition.

Key Skills

• Develops future strategy, effectively formulates action plans and gains others understanding and commitment to it
• Strong vision and communication skills
• Strong leadership skills, developing team working
• Encourages personal development
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to develop a customer service focused environment
• Coaching and mentoring management style
• Excellent influencing and negotiating skills
• Effective planning and organisational skills
• Commercial drive and awareness
• Ability to prioritise, anticipate changes and implement recommendations
• Gains commitment from team and maximises contributions from others
• Supportive yet persuasive management style
• Commercially astute with a strong trading emphasis
• First class communication skills
• Sets objectives for own area of responsibility to realise the vision
• Understands how best to carry out the role so that sales are maximised, costs are controlled and profit potential is increased
• Relays information to others in such a way that they fully understand the message and can act appropriately
• Anticipates others information needs and applies effective communication processes
• Places the emphasis on customer service and ensures that the highest standards are set and maintained in this field
• Ability to develop a highly customer focused environment
• Gains commitments and maximises contributions from others
• Displays a visible and open leadership style
• Works with others in a way that recognises their value and the shared nature of goals
• Ability to maximise team effectiveness
• Develops others to help them grow in their jobs
• Places critical importance on performance management and encourages personal development
• Wins commitment from others to a viewpoint or proposed course of action
• Ability to make thoughtful decisions, considering all options, applying appropriate analysis and being willing to take calculated risks
• Effectively formulates strategies and action plans
• Ability to prioritise, anticipate changing circumstances and implement recommendations