Butchery Manager

Elevate Recruitment and Training Consultants Ltd; Caldecote; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Elevate Recruitment and Training Consultants Ltd is seeking a hands-on Butchery Manager to lead a small team in Cambridgeshire. The role is full-time, days only, with a circa 45-hour week and a salary between £40,000 and £45,000 depending on experience.

You will drive sales, margin, and staff development in a quality meat-focused retail setting. Join an ambitious, award-winning multi-site retailer and showcase your passion for exceptional customer service and high standards.

Qualifications

• Strong knife skills required.
• Experience in management of a butchery or similar role preferred.
• Commercial awareness with understanding of yields and costs.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of butchers and assistants, providing training and motivation.
• Manage butchery sales and profit responsibilities.
• Deliver an outstanding customer experience at all times.
• Create inspiring, seasonally changing displays for the shop.
• Ensure self-serve displays in chillers are attractive and shopable.
• Share product information proactively with team and customers.
• Adhere to health and safety and food safety standards.
• Monitor sales and margin performance; drive targets.
• Control stock and stock levels.
• Assist with store setup and close-down as required.
• Take part in stocktakes, meetings and training.

Skills

Knife skills

Customer service

Sales skills

Communication

Commercial awareness

Yield understanding

Job description

Butchery Manager
Up to £45K
Retail Shop
Days Only - Shop opening hours: Mon-Sun Circa

• Are you an experienced “hands-on” Butchery Manager or Senior Butcher with a passion for high-quality meat and exceptional customer service?
• Are you proactive, highly motivated and driven, with a desire to progress your career with an ambitious and growing business?
• Are you looking for the next step in your career?

This could be the role that you have been looking for:

We are recruiting for a talented and enthusiastic Butchery Manager, with exceptional standards, to lead the small team at this established location in Cambridgeshire. You will be joining an award-winning multi-site food retailer with an enviable reputation for exceptional quality products and staff development.

The Role

• Manage a small team of Butchers and Butchery Assistants - leading by example and providing ongoing training and motivation to staff.
• Responsible for butchery sales & profit
• Deliver an outstanding experience to all customers.
• Creating inspiring, innovative, seasonally changing displays
• Ensuring self-serve displays in chillers are attractive and shoppable
• Proactively sharing product information with the team and with customers
• All due diligence - health and safety, food safety etc.
• Monitoring sales and margin performance and taking action to ensure targets are met
• Stock control
• Play an active role in store set up and closedown.
• Participating in stocktakes, meetings and training as required.

The Candidate

• Strong knife skills
• Previous Management Experience - ideally gained as owner or manager of a Butchery Shop or as Butchery Manager, Assistant Butchery Manager, Head Butcher or similar
• Commercial awareness and the understanding of yields and costs
• Proven ability to manage profit and loss margins.
• Excellent customer service and sales skills
• Commercial awareness and the understanding of yields and costs
• Be a good communicator at all levels
• Be honest, reliable and dedicated

This is a full-time position, DAYS ONLY. Circa 45 Hour Week. Flexible Working Days. You will work 5 days from 7 (including weekends on rotation).

The successful candidate will be joining an established, multi-site retail business with an excellent reputation in their sector. In return for meeting the above criteria the successful candidate will be rewarded with a competitive basic salary of between £40-45,000 (dependant on skills and experience) plus benefits.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an award-winning business, with ambitious plans for the future.

Commutable from: Huntingdon, St Neots, Cambridge, Bedford, Sandy, Biggleswade

To apply for this position, candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.