Apprentice Team Leader

Superdrug Stores; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a vibrant team at a leading health and beauty retailer, where your passion for beauty and health will shine! As an Apprentice Team Leader, you’ll develop essential management skills while driving sales and delivering excellent customer service. This role offers a unique opportunity to learn through a structured training program, with the potential for career progression within the company. With a focus on teamwork, fun, and customer satisfaction, you’ll be part of a dynamic environment that values your contributions and rewards your hard work. Get ready to embark on a rewarding journey in retail!

Benefits

Up to 28 days holiday

30% discount for you and a friend

Bonus of up to 25% of salary

Competitions to win a week’s wages

Structured training programme

Internal progression opportunities

Enhanced company sick pay

Support for pregnancy loss

Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced retail environment is essential.
• Understanding of retail KPIs including sales and profit.

Responsibilities

• Support management in daily business activities and driving sales.
• Maximize profit by reducing shrinkage and managing costs.

Skills

Team Management

Customer Service

Sales Performance Analysis

Communication Skills

Leadership

Education

GCSEs (including English and Maths)

Job description

19/23 Palmeston Road, Southsea PO5 3QQ

Salary: £13.00 Per Hour
Hours: 39 per week-15 Month Contract
Qualification: Retail Team Leader Level 3

Why Superdrug?

Passionate about beauty and health? Good motivator? Can you keep it fun for your team when the pressures on? Leading your team, hitting targets, progressing your career, that’s what it’s all about. Hard work, yes, but rewarding too.

We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.

Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling!

Here's the exciting bit…a great day includes

What we look for in our Apprentice Team Leaders goes beyond just great management skills. One minute you could be rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in, the next you could be managing and coaching your team, it is real think on your feet stuff!

You’ll learn how to support the management team in the day to day business activities and driving sales, alongside the development and delivery of excellent customer service and store standards. You’ll be involved in maximising profit by working hard to reduce shrinkage, damages, till errors and costs.

It’s a great experience that will prepare you for even bigger challenges. As part of your Apprenticeship programme you will cover subjects such as Leadership, Business, Marketing, Communication, Merchandising and Diversity. These, together with bespoke workshops, one to one support and mentoring, will ensure you will realise your potential and achieve your Apprenticeship.

Superdrug Team Leaders are extremely important to us; we recognise that you are our future Assistant Managers. We will actively develop your skills and offer real career progression supported by our award-winning in-house training and Apprenticeship team.

What you’ll need to succeed

• Experience within a fast-paced high street retailer
• Basic understanding of retail Key Performance Indicators; including sales, profit and service
• Confidence, resilience and ambition with the ability to help others to develop and improve their skills too
• You will attend off site workshops throughout your programme so you must be willing to travel
• Success in this role will enable you to take your next step with us, as we have a strong desire to promote from within and reward the highest achievers

You qualify if…

• You have 5 GCSES’s grade 4 / C GCSE (or equivalent) including English and maths
• You are not currently in any form of education, and you are available for full time shifts
• You HAVEN’T completed a Team Leader Apprenticeship before
• You are eligible to work in the UK
• You have worked in Retail for more than 12 months
• You haven’t had any Team Leader or Supervisor experience within Retail

Here’s how you are rewarded

• Competitive pay and up to 28 days holiday
• Up to 30% discount for you and a nominated friend or family member
• Earn a bonus of up to 25% of your salary
• Competitions throughout the year to win a week’s wages during seasonal events, team nights out and much more!
• Fully structured training programme including one to one tuition, workshops and online learning
• Internal progression opportunities on completion
• Enhanced company sick pay and pregnancy loss and support

Come and be part of something special!

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