Customer and Trading Manager - Convenience
About this role
What you’ll be doing:
- Working closely with a small team of managers to make sure the store runs like clockwork every day.
- Taking responsibility for the day to running of the store, often being the only manager in with accountability for the full shop.
- Work alongside a team to complete all tasks, ensuring our customers are served efficiently and safely.
- People management is also big part of the role, managing performance and capability, conducting disciplinaries and ensuring scheduling and pay are accurate.
- Where we have close knit networks of convenience stores it may mean that you need to help another store now and then.
What makes a great customer & trading manager:
- Previous line management responsibilities in a fast-paced, operational environment.
- Provides brilliant customer service, and coaches a team to do the same.
- Delivers KPI's or other performance indicators.
- Can manage disciplinaries, performance issues or other similar employee relations issues.
- Leads operations and comfortable doing this alone in the absence of more senior management.
Essential Criteria:
- A track record of delivering brilliant customer service and coaching colleagues to do the same.
- Experience of leading a team in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment — you’ve motivated others, driven performance, and kept operations running smoothly.
- Operational leadership skills — you’ve taken responsibility for store operations in the absence of more senior managers.
- Demonstrated success in meeting or exceeding KPIs — whether it’s sales, availability, customer satisfaction or colleague engagement, you’ve made a measurable impact.
- Has managed employee relations issues, including performance and absence management.
Company at a glance
Over 150 years old and still going strong, we’re the UK’s second-biggest retailer. Every day, the nation shops with us because they know they’ll get affordable, good food and excellent service.
We focus on great value and convenient shopping across our family of brands, from Argos, Nectar and Habitat to Sainsbury’s Bank, Smart Charge and Tu.
What’s next for Sainsbury’s?
We've put food back at the heart of our business and we’re taking Sainsbury’s to the next level. We’re investing in technology and people and we’re thinking bigger about how we attract and connect with our customers, while doing everything we can to create a more resilient UK food system.
Top Benefits
- Discount card
- Annual bonus scheme
- Free food and hot drinks
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Maternity leave
- Paternity leave
- Pension
- Share scheme
- Wellbeing support
- Cycle to work scheme
- Gym membership discounts
- Retail vouchers
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