Retail Fashion Manager - Andover Extra

Tesco Retail; Andover; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Tesco is seeking an F&F retail fashion manager to lead the clothing department in store, launching trade events, weekly sales and managing a team of dedicated colleagues. You will drive visual merchandising and ensure stock from backdoor to shopfloor.

You will recruit and train staff, coach the team, monitor RFID, and deliver results while maintaining brand standards. The role requires exceptional communication and leadership in a fast-paced clothing environment.

Qualifications

• Fashion retail experience including visual merchandising and customer service.
• Proven leadership and team management abilities.
• Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced clothing retail environment.

Responsibilities

• Recruiting and training the best people for your team, ensuring capability to deliver above and beyond in their role by developing their operational and leadership skills.
• Coach your team to be passionate and knowledgeable about the products in your store, building its brand and providing customers with the right range, quality and service to ensure they keep coming back.
• Lead your team in the driving of trade activity and use your expertise and knowledge to grow sales and maximise profit.
• The safety of your colleagues is your top priority, and you ensure your store is always trading legally by coaching the team to use all security tools available to provide a safer place to work.
• Manage colleague’s schedules on F&F clothing department ensuring the right people are in the right place accordance to our F&F operating model and trade plan, within agreed hours.
• Oversee the end-to-end F&F clothing operation, managing the stock from backdoor to shopfloor.
• Managing and motivating the team deliver on key metrics to support the operation including RFID routines, availability, delivery schedules and stock routines.
• Making sure F&F clothing department is always clean, tidy and well-presented and merchandised to the F&F clothing principles and standards.
• You will be an F&F brand ambassador - executing commercial strategies and maintaining store displays that consistently align with brand identity.
• Being the F&F brand and clothing expert and championing F&F in store, delivering the practical actions to make improvements where necessary by conducting a daily floor walk outlining the tasks to be completed for the day by the team.
• Analysing product performance and sales data to refine visual merchandising strategies and optimise promotional initiatives ensuring profitability is maximised and sales targets are regularly reached, if not overachieved
• Complete market research, analysing trends, competitor activity, and consumer behaviour (including social media and F&F online)
• Have a commercial mind-set, knowing your customers and local community, to advertise and regularly change lead ins to entice customers onto the F&F department and adapt product placement to respond effectively to changing market conditions
• Curate visual impactful merchandising displays and a welcoming store atmosphere in line with the visual merchandising guidelines set out in your VM guide adapting your store layouts to reflect local customer profile
• Building strong relationships with your team (including colleagues who work on F&F clothing overnight), the wider store team and your home and clothing area manager, including providing feedback and sharing future opportunities

Skills

Visual merchandising

Customer service

Team management

Leadership

Communication

Decision making

Job description

As�F&F�retail�fashion�manager,�you�will�ideally�have�fashion�experience�including visual

merchandising,�customer�service�and�team�management�skills.�You�will�have�an�eye�for detail�ensuring�your department is�upholding to�the highest operational standards for our customers. You will be familiar with the fast-paced�environment of�clothing retail and can deliver results under pressure.

As F&F retail fashion manager, you will take a lead role in driving the F&F clothing business forward in your store and be responsible for launching trade events, weekly sales, as well as a team of dedicated colleagues and managing day to day operations.

• Recruiting and training the best people for your team, ensuring they have the capability to deliver above and beyond in their role by developing their operational and leadership skills
• Coach�your�team�to�be�passionate�and�knowledgeable�about�the�products�in your store,�building its�brand and providing customers with the right range,�quality�and service to ensure they keep coming back
• Lead�your�team�in the�driving of�trade�activity�and�use�your�expertise�and�knowledge�to grow�sales�and maximise�profit
• The�safety�of�your colleagues�is your�top�priority,�and�you ensure�your�store�is always�trading�legally�by coaching the team to use all security tools available�to provide a safer place to work
• Manage�colleague�schedules�on�F&F�clothing department�ensuring�the�right people�are�in the�right place accordance to our F&F operating�model and trade plan, within agreed hours
• Oversee�the�end-to-end�F&F�clothing�operation,�managing�the�stock�from backdoor�to�shopfloor
• Managing and motivating the team deliver on key metrics to support the operation including RFID routines, availability, delivery schedules and stock routines
• Making sure F&F clothing department is always clean, tidy and well-presented and merchandised to the F&F clothing principles and standards
• You will be an F&F brand ambassador - executing commercial strategies and maintaining store displays that consistently align with brand identity
• Being the F&F brand and clothing expert and championing F&F in store, delivering the practical actions to make improvements where necessary by conducting a daily floor walk outlining the tasks to be completed for the day by the team
• Analysing product performance and sales data to refine visual merchandising strategies and optimise promotional initiatives ensuring profitability is maximised and sales targets are regularly reached, if not overachieved
• Complete market research, analysing trends, competitor activity, and consumer behaviour (including social media and F&F online)
• Have a commercial mind-set, knowing your customers and local community, to advertise and regularly change lead ins to entice customers onto the F&F department and adapt product placement to respond effectively to changing market conditions
• Curate visual impactful merchandising displays and a welcoming store atmosphere in line with the visual merchandising guidelines set out in your VM guide adapting your store layouts to reflect local customer profile
• Building strong relationships with your team (including colleagues who work on F&F clothing overnight), the wider store team and your home and clothing area manager, including providing feedback and sharing future opportunities

You will need to be:

• You are a great communicator who will share knowledge, experience and best practices, you understand the importance of what you do and work collaboratively with your team to deliver results

• You are�natural�and�welcoming�with�customers,�putting�them�at�the�heart�of�whatever�you.�You take�the time�to listen and understand others, building strong relationships�with your colleagues�and customers
• You use your energy and resilience to keep momentum going when working in challenging environments. You own�the�decision�making�for the�store,�and�can�act�quickly,�making�decisions�based�on what�is�right for customers and colleagues
• You have�energy�and�drive to�deliver�beyond�expectation.�You do�the�right thing whether�everything�is going well or times are tough, and know how to consistently be at your best, you inspire confidence in those around you
• You are�aware�of�what�our competitors�are�doing,�with�a�well-developed�commercial�mindset�and�you are always looking for ways to build and deliver new initiatives�to help improve our store for customers
• You have attention to detail and a creative flair, drawing on experience to deliver impeccable visual merchandising standards, inspiring and coaching your team to develop their skills in these areas

• You are highly organised and have great time management skills, with the ability to prioritise workload and delegate tasks accordingly

Critical skills:

• Clothing�experience�essential
• Impeccable�visual�merchandising�standards
• Attention�to�detail�and�a�creative�flair
• Well-developed commercial mindset
• Effective�leadership�with�the�ability�to�motivate�others
• Results driven and sales oriented

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is �Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day�. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we are a place where Everyone�s Welcome.

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That�s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

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Please note

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