Store Manager

Sainsbury's; Birkenhead; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company is seeking a dedicated team leader to manage store operations in Birkenhead. You will be responsible for developing your team, ensuring exceptional customer experiences, and driving performance. Ideal candidates are natural coaches, adaptable, and have proven experience in a fast-paced environment. This role offers full-time hours and includes various employee benefits such as discounts, pension matching, and wellbeing support.

Benefits

10% discount after four weeks, increasing to 15%

Pension matching at 4%

Free food and hot drinks

Generous holiday entitlement

Sainsbury's share scheme

Wellbeing support

Cycle to Work scheme

Special offers on various services

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing a fast-paced operation.
• Ability to drive performance and customer experiences.
• Experience in employee relations and applying HR policies.

Responsibilities

• Lead and nurture a high-performing team.
• Drive store performance and success.
• Motivate and empower team members.

Skills

Coaching

Communication

Planning and Organising

Commercial Acumen

Team Leadership

Job description

• Locations Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd, Birkenhead, Merseyside, CH42 8PQ, GB
• Closing Date 01/18/2026, 11:59 PM
• Full Time or Part Time Full time
• Contract Type Permanent
• Advertised Salary From £28,700
• Shift Patterns Free Text Flexible to work 5/7 days, including early and late shifts and weekend working

Just think what you could achieve with the support of your own management team. Experiences that customers love in an ever-changing retail environment. You’ll have a team to nurture and develop and even more management opportunities on the horizon. Discover the rest of your career at Argos.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll create and lead a high-performing team and act as a true role model by seeing everything from the customer’s point of view. In that way, you’ll inspire, motivate and empower everybody around you.

Your focus on the business itself will be just as strong. Supported by your management team, you’ll have total accountability for the store – driving performance, plans and actions; celebrating success and making sure that your teams are trained and developed to be the best that they can be.

Who you are

A natural coach and communicator, you’ll support as strongly as you challenge and be as flexible as you expect your team to be. You can see the link between actions and the customer, and work to resolve issues quickly.

Your planning and organising skills will be key - each Argos store is a big, fast-moving business in its own right, and you’ll look ahead to make sure you have the all the resources you need. Every day, you’ll use your commercial acumen and creative approach to change.

How you’ll progress

There’s a host of routes to choose from. Prove yourself in this role, and we’ll really encourage you to develop. Whether you choose to stay with Argos or move across and develop in one of our Sainsbury’s stores or regions, you’ll have every opportunity to take your career where you want it to go.

• Relentless in your pursuit of better customer experiences, you'll evidence how you've changed things for the better for customers in a previous role.
• You’ve managed a fast-paced operation, delivering results across service, sales, customer outcomes and team performance.
• You use insight to make smart decisions that improve performance and customer experiences.
• You’re confident navigating employee relations, and apply HR policies with consistency and care.
• You’ve developed and supported performance and capability within a team, helping others step up and succeed.
• You know how to lead through change — keeping your team motivated and focused.
• You walk the talk — showing up every day as a role model for service and values.

What we’ll give you

Salary will be dependent upon your experience as well as the store size, complexity and location. Alongside this, we also offer a great range of benefits for our managers, including:

• Discount card – 10% discount off on your shopping at Sainsbury’s, Argos, Tu and Habitat after four weeks. This increases to 15% discount off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day.
  
• Pension – we’ll match 4% of your contributions and if you change your pension plan, you may receive more from us.
  
• Free food and hot drinks provided for Colleagues in all our stores.
  
• Generous holiday entitlement, maternity and paternity leave.
  
• Sainsbury’s share scheme – build up an investment at discounted rates
  
• Wellbeing support – access to emotional support, counselling, legal and financial advice
  
• Colleague networks – link with like-minded people to help fulfil your potential.
  
• Our Cycle to Work scheme gives you the opportunity to hire a new bike and cycling equipment, whilst saving on tax and NI.
  
• Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more.