Assistant Manager– Plants Galore- £33,000-£35,500

Joyners Plants Ltd; Highweek; Sur place; GBP 21 000 - 28 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Plants Galore, a garden centre with stores in Newton Abbot, seeks an experienced Assistant Manager to support the store manager and supervise department supervisors. The role involves managing payment areas, merchandising and displaying horticultural ranges, and ensuring smooth daily operations across the centre.

Successful candidates will lead a shop-floor team, create attractive seasonal layouts, and maintain high customer service standards.

Qualifications

• Experience in retail management or supervisory roles.
• Strong customer service attitude and professional demeanor.
• A flair for retail display and merchandising.

Responsabilités

• Following and enforcing policies and procedures.
• Opening and closing procedures.
• Head office reporting and administration.
• Managing and leading the retail team.
• Run the store to the high standards that we set our stores at.

Connaissances

Team leadership

Customer service

Retail merchandising

Communication

Description du poste

Our Garden Centre based in Newton Abbot is looking for an experienced Assistant Manager to strengthen its managerial team. This role is responsible for the smooth running of the centre alongside the department supervisors and head office.

Once fully trained, the role will require applicants to assist with management of the operation of the entire retail store alongside the store manager. Responsibilities will include payment area management, merchandising and display of horticultural and Christmas ranges of products and merchandising and display of beautiful garden plant displays. Applicants will become responsible for all operational issues at store level.

Applicants will need to be confident communicating with and leading a team of staff on the shop floor and be hands on with all workload tasks. Applicants ideally need to relish the opportunity to create beautiful seasonal store layouts and create colourful eye-catching displays for customers to enjoy. A flair for retail display and merchandising is required. Applicants will need a positive customer service attitude and friendly firm and professional personality to deal with customer queries and payment area issues.

The role will include the following responsibilities:

• Following and enforcing policies and procedures
• Opening and Closing procedures
• Head office reporting and administration
• Managing and leading the retail team
• Run the store to the high standards that we set our stores at

This role is hands-on as a shop floor manager and physically demanding requiring applicants to be on their feet all day and handle heavy repetitive lifting. A good level of physical fitness and a passion for active work are essential. Regular weekend and bank holiday working is also essential (as with all high street retail stores) so please do not apply for this role if you cannot work weekends or feel that the physical nature of the role is not suitable.

We can fast track progression and pay rates following the initial three month period so applicants can quickly reach agreed target levels as they quickly learn new skills and become more competent and experienced to take on more responsibility at store level and advance to becoming a key member of the team.

Plants Galore are an experienced and successful retailer and we are looking for outstanding individuals who can help take the company forward through a new five-year period of expansion and progression. We can offer career progression to all exciting applicants who can fully commit to helping us create and operate massive retail stores successfully.

The starting rate of Holiday is pro rata based on days worked – approx. 28 days per year.

We currently have many vacancies so please visit our website (www.plantsgalore.co.uk) to view our other vacancies.