Butchery Manager

Elevate Recruitment and Training Consultants Ltd; England; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food retailer in the UK is seeking a Butchery Manager to lead a talented team in a family-run farm shop. The role demands strong knife skills, management experience in butchery, and excellent customer service skills. Responsibilities include managing sales, creating innovative displays, and ensuring a high-quality customer experience. The offered salary is between £35,000 and £38,000, along with benefits. This position provides a full-time opportunity with flexible days.

Qualifications

• Previous management experience, ideally in butchery.
• Commercial awareness and understanding of yields and costs.
• Proven ability to manage profit and loss margins.

Responsibilities

• Manage a small team of Butchers and Butchery Assistants.
• Responsible for butchery sales & profit.
• Deliver an outstanding experience to all customers.
• Create innovative displays, ensuring self-serve displays are attractive.
• Monitor sales and margin performance.

Skills

Strong knife skills

Excellent customer service

Sales skills

Good communication

Job description

Butchery Manager

Retail Shop

Northants

Days Only

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 team at an independent, family‑run farm shop near Wellingborough. You will be joining an award‑winning 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 an understanding of yields and costs.
• Proven ability to manage profit and loss margins.
• Excellent customer service and sales skills.
• Be a good communicator at all levels.
• Be honest, reliable and dedicated.

This is a full‑time position, DAYS ONLY. 47.5 Hour Week. Flexible Working Days. You will work 5 days from 7 (including 1 day at the weekend).

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 £35-38,000 (dependent 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: Wellingborough, Great Doddington, Earls Barton, Moulton, Northampton, Kettering

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

Elevate Recruitment & Training Consultants Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.