Multi-site Store Manager - Lavenham & Sudbury (Hiring Immediately)

JR United Kingdom; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Multi-site Store Manager to lead teams across multiple locations. This role involves guiding commercial strategies and fostering an inclusive culture within the stores. You will empower your team leaders, ensuring operational excellence while managing HR processes. With a competitive salary and generous benefits, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in the community and develop your career in a supportive environment.

Benefits

30% off Co-op branded products

10% off other brands

Pension with up to 10% employer contributions

Wagestream app for early pay access

24/7 access to GP appointments

Coaching and training for career development

Generous holiday allowance of 36 days

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a retail store manager in a busy service-focused environment.
• Ability to lead and coach colleagues to become high performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Build an inclusive culture where everyone can speak up and have their voice heard.
• Manage and optimise your stores’ commercial and community strategies.

Skills

Retail Management

Team Leadership

Problem Solving

Commercial Awareness

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05.05.2025

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Multi-site Store Manager - Lavenham & Sudbury
Location: Sudbury and Lavenham, Suffolk
Salary: £38,000 - £45,000 per year, plus great benefits

We’re looking for a skilled Multi-site Store Manager to join our retail team. If you’re currently a Retail Store Manager looking for your next step, a multi-site role might be the opportunity you’re looking for. As a Multi-site Store Manager, you’ll lead one empowered and collaborative team across two or more stores.

This role combines our stores in Sudbury and Lavenham, Suffolk.In this role, you’ll manage the delivery of the stores’ offering, by guiding their commercial and community strategies. You’ll bring together two diverse teams, and engage and motivate your people, often from a distance. You’ll develop your skills as well as your teams, showing our customers, colleagues and members the difference Co-op brings to local communities.

What you’ll do

• Build an inclusive culture where everyone can speak up and have their voice heard
• Develop your team through regular colleague conversations, equipping them with the skills to reach their potential and empowering team leaders to run stores in your absence
• Make sure your stores are safe, legal and operational
• Manage and optimise your stores’ commercial and community strategies
• Recruit new team members and manage HR processes

This job would suit people who have

• Significant experience as a retail store manager, guiding and developing teams working in a busy service-focused environment and managing store operations
• Resilience and great problem solving skills
• The ability to understand and analyse commercial information
• Confidence in their ability to lead and coach colleagues to become high performing teams
• Capacity to lead remotely, enable planning for more stores and be adaptable

Why Co-op?

In return for your passion and commitment, you’ll get a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes an annual bonus (based on personal and business performance), A generous holiday allowance of 36 days including bank holidays (rising with service). You’ll also get:

• Colleague member discount with 30% off Co-op branded products and 10% off other brands available in-store
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Wagestream app – giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• 24/7 access to GP appointments and Colleague Support Programme
• Coaching and training to support your career development

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-wellbeing.

As part of the application process for this job, you'll need to complete two online assessments. It will take around 20 minutes to complete these tests.

We reserve the right to remove a vacancy before the scheduled closing date.