Retail Fashion Manager - Lincoln 2

Tesco UK; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Tesco is seeking a F&F Retail Fashion Manager to lead the clothing department in store, drive trade events, weekly sales, and manage a dedicated team. You will ensure visual merchandising standards, stock management, and brand presentation align with Tesco F&F guidelines.

You will recruit, train, and coach colleagues, maintain high service levels, and deliver results under pressure in a fast-paced clothing retail environment.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Recruit and train the best people for your team, developing operational and leadership skills.
• Coach your team to be passionate and knowledgeable about the products and maintain brand standards.
• Lead the team in driving trade activity and growing sales.
• Prioritise safety and ensure store adheres to legal trading standards.
• Schedule colleagues in the F&F department to cover trading hours.
• Manage end-to-end F&F clothing operations from stock to shop floor.
• Motivate the team to hit key metrics like RFID, availability, and delivery schedules.
• Maintain clean, well-presented, and merchandised displays per brand guidelines.
• Act as a Tesco F&F brand ambassador and implement commercial strategies.

Skills

Clothing experience

Visual merchandising

Attention to detail

Commercial mindset

Leadership

Sales driven

Job description

AsF&Fretailfashionmanager,youwillideallyhavefashionexperienceincluding visual

merchandising,customerserviceandteammanagementskills.Youwillhaveaneyefor detailensuringyour department isupholding tothe highest operational standards for our customers. You will be familiar with the fast-pacedenvironment ofclothing 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
• Coachyourteamtobepassionateandknowledgeableabouttheproductsin your store,building itsbrand and providing customers with the right range,qualityand service to ensure they keep coming back
• Leadyourteamin thedriving oftradeactivityanduseyourexpertiseandknowledgeto growsalesand maximiseprofit
• Thesafetyofyour colleaguesis yourtoppriority,andyou ensureyourstoreis alwaystradinglegallyby coaching the team to use all security tools availableto provide a safer place to work
• ManagecolleagueschedulesonF&Fclothing departmentensuringtheright peoplearein theright place accordance to our F&F operatingmodel and trade plan, within agreed hours
• Overseetheend-to-endF&Fclothingoperation,managingthestockfrom backdoortoshopfloor
• 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

Youwill needto 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 arenaturalandwelcomingwithcustomers,puttingthemattheheartofwhateveryou.You takethe timeto listen and understand others, building strong relationshipswith your colleaguesand customers
• You use your energy and resilience to keep momentum going when working in challenging environments. You ownthedecisionmakingfor thestore,andcanactquickly,makingdecisionsbasedon whatisright for customers and colleagues
• You haveenergyanddrive todeliverbeyondexpectation.You dotheright thing whethereverythingis going well or times are tough, and know how to consistently be at your best, you inspire confidence in those around you
• You areawareofwhatour competitorsaredoing,withawell-developedcommercialmindsetandyou are always looking for ways to build and deliver new initiativesto 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

Criticalskills:

• Clothingexperienceessential
• Impeccablevisualmerchandisingstandards
• Attentiontodetailandacreativeflair
• Well-developed commercial mindset
• Effectiveleadershipwiththeabilitytomotivateothers
• 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

Tesco will only recruit individuals who have passed the school leaver’s age. To find out the school leavers age for your country please click here

We can only accept candidates over the age of 18 if the role requires working before 6:15 am or after 9:45 pm or involves working in areas such as the warehouse, beers, wines and spirits, counters, bakery and driving roles.

On the occasions where we have high volumes of applicants, some roles may close earlier than the advertised end date in order for us to manage all of the applicants appropriately. We will only be able to offer individual feedback to those candidates who attend an interview.

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