Commercial Manager

Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS); West Midlands; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company is looking for a Commercial Manager to create and lead a high-performing team. This role involves driving sales, managing stock, and ensuring exceptional customer service. The ideal candidate will possess strong coaching abilities, commercial acumen, and excellent analytical skills. The company offers a competitive salary of up to £46,000 per annum, along with a comprehensive benefits package including a company bonus scheme, award-winning pension, and 6.6 weeks of holiday. Join us in making a difference for our customers.

Benefits

Award-winning pension scheme

Company Bonus Scheme

6.6 weeks holiday

Employee Assistance Programme

Shopping discounts

Qualifications

• Strong coaching abilities and effective listening skills.
• Calm under pressure, able to motivate the team.
• High commercial awareness and analytical mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing team.
• Manage core trading sales floor including stock and promotions.
• Ensure customer needs are prioritized in trading plans.

Skills

Coaching

Analytical skills

Commercial acumen

Prioritization

Job description

Overview

Full time, Part time or Job Share

Permanent Contract - 36.75 Hours per week

Up to £46,000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + 6.6 Weeks Holiday

B&Q Erdington

Every day, we give our millions of customers the ideas, advice, tools, and confidence they need to create a home they'll love. Join us as a Commercial Manager and you will be pivotal in creating and leading a high performing team to deliver sales growth and make every customer count.

What's the job?

A great team needs a great leader and your role as a Commercial Manager is to create a truly inclusive, high performing team to drive profitable sales through great retail and stock excellence standards. It's B&Q's ambition to make every customer count and you will play a bit part in leading this across the store. In this role you will:

• Drive commercial delivery of the core trading sales floor, leading end-to-end stock management, range change and promotions.
• Deliver a high-performance culture that supports team ownership, capability and accountability across core trading departments, overnight operation and range change activity.
• Champion customer first thinking, ensuring trading plans directly support customer needs, with your team in the right place, with the right skills at the right time.

What we need:

Our Commercial Managers are key to running our business by leading the team to deliver exceptional store operations through the creation of a high-performance culture. In this role, you should be leading in a way that demonstrates the following qualities:

• You are a great coach, because you listen well and can get to the root cause of problems effectively.
• Calm when faced with challenges and can motivate others to face into them.
• Natural analytical rigour and high commercial acumen.
• Process switches you on, you believe it's the foundation of great availability.
• Well planned, disciplined and can prioritise effectively for you and others.

What's in it for me?

As part of a great team, you'll be valued for who you are. We're committed to making B&Q more diverse and representative of the communities we serve, where everyone can feel they belong and have equal opportunities. You will have access to a range of networks that represent our colleagues and allies and help us to continue to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business.

We also recognise that wellness means different things to different people, and we want to help colleagues be at their best and feel well by offering a range of benefits to help you. As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes:

• Award‑winning pension scheme
• Company Bonus Scheme
• ShareSave options
• 6.6 weeks holiday
• Payroll giving
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Shopping discounts
• Colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more

So we can support you during the application or interview process, please contact [e-mail] for any recruitment adjustments.