Retail Assistant Manager / Ambient Trading ManagerCumnock   £16,000 - £18,000

Trading Manager

There has never been a better time to become a Trading Manager with Somerfield. We offer a competitive salary, award winning training, staff discount, 22 days holiday per year (increasing with service) and most importantly to us, unparalleled opportunities to progress your career. With 250 new stores planned, your progression will be constrained only by your own abilities!

What’s more, we know our people work to live rather than live to work. Our policies on career break, flexible working, maternity, paternity, adoptive leave and parental leave are just a few examples of how we help our people find the perfect work/life balance.

Being a Trading Manager

Depending on store turnover either two, three or four Trading Managers report directly to the Store Manager, with a team of supervisors and colleagues in turn reporting to them.

The Trading Manager role is divided into three main areas of the store:

Fresh Trading Manager

Taking Responsibility for all departments offering fresh foods within a store, including Deli, Dairy, Produce, Meat, Bakery and Counters. Our Fresh Trading Managers are passionate about quality, freshness, availability, standards, hygiene and legislation.

Services Trading Manager

Taking responsibility for all services departments within a store, including Checkouts, Kiosk, Impulse areas, Systems, SEL’s (shelf-edge labels) and POS (point of sale). Our Service Trading Managers are passionate about delighting our customers in every contact they have with the store.

Ambient Trading Manager

Taking Responsibility for all ambient departments within a store, including Grocery, Beers Wines and Spirits, Non-food and Frozen. Our Ambient Trading Managers are passionate about availability, standards, hygiene and legislation.

As a Trading Manager you will be a Duty Manager for the store in absence of the Store Manager, taking full responsibility for delivering great customer service, product availability, store standards and legislation.

You will be supported every step of the way by our market-leading 'Reach' training programme. Self-driven and very hands on, we aim to have you signed off after 12 weeks.

N.B. On completion and sign off from your training you will receive a £1,000 salary increase.

Are you a Trading Manager? The right individual

We are looking for a high performing Supervisor, Assistant Manager, Duty Manager, deputy Manager, or Store Manager with people management experience. Our Trading Managers can clearly demonstrate the following qualities:

‘Hands on’ management style
Drive to achieve targets
Comfortable leading regular team meetings/appraisals
Structured prioritisation of workload
Resilience
Customer Focused
Ability to coach and train others
Comfortable communicating with, and seeking feedback from customers

Join us now!

We have been outperforming the food retail market in 2008, and will be opening 250 new stores over the next three years, so this really is an exciting time to join a progressive, forward thinking company. Apply now!

Job Reference:   SRT1528