Food Manager

Sainsbury's; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Food Manager, where you'll lead a team to ensure excellent customer service and operational efficiency. This role offers clear accountability and opportunities for personal growth and career advancement within the Sainsbury's family. Enjoy various benefits, including discounts and wellbeing support.

Benefits

10% discount at Sainsbury's

Free food and hot drinks

Generous holiday entitlement

Pension scheme

Wellbeing support

Cycle to Work scheme

Special offers on gym memberships

Qualifications

• Experience managing or supervising in a fast-paced environment.
• Motivated to develop and bring out the best in others.

Responsibilities

• Manage a medium to large in-store team, assigning tasks and planning breaks.
• Ensure operational management of the store area, focusing on customer outcomes.

Skills

Leadership

Customer Service

Team Management

Tools

Digital Technology

Job description

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You’re ambitious for more leadership responsibility. Maybe one day, you’d like to run your own store or take on a bigger role in the future. First, you want to focus on your people development skills – crafting a team that delivers what you need, when you need it.

This is a well-balanced management role with clear accountability – you’ll understand exactly what’s expected of you and who to turn to for support. Whether you already have some supervisory experience or you’re looking to make the step up, it’s the perfect chance to get close to your team and grow your skills.

What You’ll Be Doing

Our purpose is that driven by our passion for food, together we serve and help every customer.

Food sets the standard for the rest of the store – getting it right means our customers choose to return again and again so it’s critical that grocery, fresh and produce are always available and looking their best. Your leadership will deliver throughout the day, every day. Reporting into our Lead Food Manager, your job is focused on operational in-store management, ensuring that your area is running smoothly, day in, day out.

There’s an emphasis on managing a medium to large in-store team – assigning tasks and planning breaks, creating rotas, addressing performance issues both sensitively and effectively, and helping with recruitment. You’ll be a visible leader on the shop floor, a role model who drives training and creates a team where everyone feels welcome, and colleagues feel safe to challenge the way things are done.

What Success Looks Like

There’s lots to achieve. Here’s how you’ll know you’re developing:

• You’re supporting the Lead Food Manager to deliver improved customer and retail outcomes in your area
• You’ll work closely with another Food Manager, sharing ideas and identifying ways to improve things, and provide a brilliant handover from each shift to the next
• You’re confident being direct with your team – you’re giving honest feedback, early and often
• You’ve learned how to help your team to put themselves in the customers’ shoes, taking genuine pride in how we deliver a better service
• You’re increasingly making decisions at pace and comfortable not knowing all the answers

About You

We’re open-minded about your career trajectory. You’re probably already managing or supervising people in a similarly fast-paced setting and confident to deal with the challenges each day throws up – your team depends on you!

You’ll need to share Sainsbury’s love of technology. We’re ahead of the curve here – we do as much as we can digitally – from stock management to rotas.

What matters most is you – you’re motivated to develop, dedicated to bringing out the best in others and, like all of us, passionate about customer service. After all, that’s what our stores are all about.

Where next?

The Sainsbury’s in-store management structure is designed to help people like you to progress, with support and opportunities to deliver excellence. When joining us, you will receive a clear induction and training plan tailored to your needs, built alongside your manager. They will support and coach you to deliver great performance while allowing time for your development.

As a Food Manager, you could advance into roles such as Lead Manager in Food, In-store Customer Experience, Clothing, or General Merchandise. Looking further ahead, it’s excellent preparation for a Store Management role or leadership positions across the Sainsbury’s family, including Habitat, Tu, Argos, Sainsbury’s Bank, and Nectar 360. We are committed to unlocking your potential.

Added Benefits

Salary will depend on your experience, store size, complexity, and location. We also offer a range of benefits, including:

• 10% discount at Sainsbury’s, Argos, Tu, and Habitat after four weeks, increasing to 15% at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday, and at Argos every pay day
• Free food and hot drinks in all our stores
• Generous holiday entitlement, maternity, and paternity leave
• Pension scheme with 4-7.5% employer contributions
• Sainsbury’s share scheme for employee investment
• Wellbeing support including emotional, legal, and financial advice
• Colleague networks for support and development
• Cycle to Work scheme for bikes and cycling equipment
• Special offers on gym memberships, holidays, retail vouchers, and more

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