Sales Team Manager Designate

B&Q; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 37,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Bonus scheme

ShareSave options

6.6 weeks holiday

Payroll giving

Employee Assistance Programme

Shopping discounts

Wellbeing benefits

Job summary

B&Q is seeking a Sales Team Manager Designate to drive sales across Showrooms and TradePoint in the Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton area. The role involves leading two strategic areas of the store, coaching teams, and delivering customer-focused results.

You will learn across a cluster of stores for 3-6 months before moving into a designated store, with travel within 50 miles of your home location. There is potential for progression in a large, diverse retailer.

Qualifications

• Retail management experience is essential.
• Proven ability to lead and develop sales teams.
• Strong coaching and performance management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead two key store areas: Showrooms and TradePoint.
• Coach and develop sales teams to meet targets.
• Build strong relationships with customers, especially tradespeople.

Skills

Sales leadership

Coaching

Performance management

Communication

Analytical thinking

Tools

POS systems

Job description

Permanent Contract - 36.75 Hours per week

Up to £34,000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + 6.6 Weeks Holiday

Sales Team Manager Designate position - various locations across Birmingham, Coventry & Wolverhampton

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 Sales Team Manager and you will be pivotal in driving sales across our showroom and TradePoint departments.

Overview

Full time, Part time or Job Share

Permanent Contract - 36.75 Hours per week

Up to £34,000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + 6.6 Weeks Holiday

Sales Team Manager Designate position - various locations across Birmingham, Coventry & Wolverhampton

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 Sales Team Manager and you will be pivotal in driving sales across our showroom and TradePoint departments.

At B&Q , we’re passionate about progression and we’re committed to growing talent from within. We also recognise the important experience that new leaders add, onboarding several designate managers through the year.

As a B&Q designate manager, you’ll have the unique opportunity to learn about us and our business, typically spend ing 3-6 months working across a cluster of stores (in the Birmingham area). You’ll experience management training in various store formats before being placed into your own department or store.

Due to the nature of this role, there’ll be some flexibility and travel required during your time as a designate, before being placed within a store that matches your experience within 50 miles of where you live.

What's the job?

Role

A great team needs a great leader and your role as a Sales Team Manager is to lead two of the most strategically important areas of our store — Showrooms and TradePoint. You’ll bring together dynamic, sales-focused teams and create a culture where every colleague is confident, proactive, and laser-focused on fulfilling B&Q’s ambition of making every customer count. You’ll make a real difference through sales coaching and performance leadership and build a high-performing team. In this role you will:

• Support our sales colleagues to build deep product knowledge and be confident to sell.
• Use customer insights and performance data to spot opportunities and respond at pace.
• Build strong local customer relationships, with a focus on Tradespeople.

What We Need

Our Sales Team Managers are key to running our business by leading the team to deliver effective stock manager and to make every customer count. In this role, you should be leading in a way that demonstrates the following qualities:

• You enjoy observing, listening and communicating ways to continuously improve and celebrate success.
• Are comfortable having meaningful discussions about performance.
• At your best building rapport with customers and colleagues.
• Like to be well planned and organised and thrive in being agile with your plans when needed.
• Natural analytical rigour and can spot opportunities to increase sales.

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.

Benefits

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

If you require any additional support or reasonable adjustments to help you complete your application or throughout the recruitment process, please let us know. If you would like to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme please contact us at [e-mail]. If you meet the minimum criteria for the role, we'll consider your application in line with our Disability Confident commitments.