Depot Manager

Salary: £26,000 per year

Depot Manager- Derby or Nottingham

Full Time: 45 hours per week including weekends

The Role

The principle responsibility of the role is to lead the team to ensure the store is operating in an efficient, safe and legal manner and offering excellent customer service. You will be dedicated to keeping customers at the forefront of everything you do, take ownership and pride in your work, have a proven track record of leading a team to success, be enthusiastic and have drive and ambition to be the best.

Due to the nature of this role, this would be ideally suited to someone with a proven track record in a senior retail/wholesale management position, that has a hands on approach.

The candidate will be responsible for the following duties:

Delivering consistent high store standards, improving range, merchandising and on shelf availability

Managing routine procedures whilst ensuring that all policies are adhered to.

Delivering all store KPIs – sales, shrinkage, profit, wage costs etc to achieve targets as agreed with your Manager.

Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and setting challenging targets to minimise payroll costs

Manage, lead and develop the team to deliver high performance

Build and maintain strong working relationships with customers

Maintain H&S, Food Safety and Fire Regulations

Training and development of the store team, managing performance and coaching

Ensure the security procedures are followed by all employees and updated as required

Ensure the customer always has a excellent shopping experience, by having plans in place, encouraging the right culture and challenging the team to improve service

Effectively communicate with third parties both internal and external

Engaging with Customers, using feedback to improve service and satisfaction

The Person

The candidate will need to:

Have a proven track record with a minimum of 3 years’ experience in a senior management role within a wholesale / retail environment

Be self-motivated, demanding, hardworking and able to work autonomously

Be IT literate and have excellent administrative skills

Have a good level of commercial awareness in a wholesale / retail environment

Be resilient when faced with business opportunities

Be responsive and proactive in your Management style to suit operational requirements

A range of benefits are available to the successful candidate, including; a full staff benefits scheme with retail discounts, discounted products and memberships. In addition there is also an employee assistance programme, staff discount in store, childcare voucher scheme, pension and more!

Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive if you do not hear from us within four weeks your application has not been successful.