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Commercial Manager
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Overview

Full time, Part time or Job Share

5 Month Fixed Term Contract from 1st February - 36.75 Hours per week

Up to £42,000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + 6.6 Weeks Holiday

B&Q Ashford

 

Every day, we give our millions of customers the ideas, advice, tools, and confidence they need to create a home they’ll love. Join us as a Commercial Manager and you will be pivotal in creating and leading a high performing team to deliver sales growth and make every customer count.

What's the job?

A great team needs a great leader and your role as a Commercial Manager is to create a truly inclusive, high performing team to drive profitable sales through great retail and stock excellence standards. It’s B&Q’s ambition to make every customer count and you will play a bit part in leading this across the store. In this role you will:

  • Drive commercial delivery of the core trading sales floor, leading end-to-end stock management, range change and promotions.
  • Deliver a high-performance culture that supports team ownership, capability and accountability across core trading departments, overnight operation and range change activity.
  • Champion customer first thinking, ensuring trading plans directly support customer needs, with your team in the right place, with the right skills at the right time.

What we need:

Our Commercial Managers are key to running our business by leading the team to deliver exceptional store operations through the creation of a high-performance culture. In this role, you should be leading in a way that demonstrates the following qualities:

  • You are a great coach, because you listen well and can get to the root cause of problems effectively.
  • Calm when faced with challenges and can motivate others to face into them.
  • Natural analytical rigour and high commercial acumen.
  • Process switches you on, you believe it’s the foundation of great availability.
  • Well planned, disciplined and can prioritise effectively for you and others.

 

What's in it for me?

As part of a great team, you’ll be valued for who you are. We’re committed to making B&Q more diverse and representative of the communities we serve, where everyone can feel they belong and have equal opportunities. You will have access to a range of networks that represent our colleagues and allies and help us to continue to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business.

We also recognise that wellness means different things to different people, and we want to help colleagues be at their best and feel well by offering a range of benefits to help you. As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes:

  • Award-winning pension scheme
  • Company Bonus Scheme
  • ShareSave options
  • 6.6 weeks holiday
  • Payroll giving
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Shopping discounts
  • Colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more 

So we can support you during the application or interview process, please contact [email protected] for any recruitment adjustments.

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Other facts

Tech stack
Coaching,Listening,Analytical Rigour,Commercial Acumen,Process Management,Planning,Discipline,Prioritization

About B&Q

We are the UK’s leading home improvement and garden living retailer with over 311 stores throughout the UK and Ireland, offering great prices, with over 100,000 products available to order at diy.com for home delivery or click and collect.

We launched the UK’s first home improvement marketplace in March 2022, adding additional choice for consumers. The marketplace offers a unique, integrated experience with in-store returns for many products and Click + Collect options being explored.

Our team of more than 21,000 colleagues of all ages are respected nationwide for providing great home improvement help to customers. They’re the beating heart of B&Q and their iconic orange aprons are worn with pride.

Every year, more than 20 million people improve their homes and make life better with B&Q, and every year the company achieves ever-higher standards for sustainable sourcing and supports our local communities, including funding B&Q Foundation grants and Shelter’s DIY Skills Advisors. For more information on our community initiatives visit diy.com/corporate/community

To read our latest Build a Life project report visit diy.com/responsible-business.

B&Q is part of Kingfisher plc, the international home improvement company, operating 2000 stores in 8 countries across Europe.

Team size: 10,001+ employees
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Industry: Retail

What you'll do

  • As a Commercial Manager, you will lead a high-performing team to drive profitable sales and ensure stock management and promotions are effectively executed. You will also champion customer-first thinking to align trading plans with customer needs.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does a Commercial Manager do at B&Q?

As a Commercial Manager at B&Q, you will: as a Commercial Manager, you will lead a high-performing team to drive profitable sales and ensure stock management and promotions are effectively executed. You will also champion customer-first thinking to align trading plans with customer needs..

Why join B&Q as a Commercial Manager?

B&Q is a leading Retail company.

Is the Commercial Manager position at B&Q remote?

The Commercial Manager position at B&Q is based in Ashford, England, United Kingdom. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.

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