Store Manager

Go-Outdoors; Sefton; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

GO Outdoors is seeking a Store Manager to take full ownership of store performance, culture, and daily execution. You will lead a high-energy team, coach colleagues and ensure premium customer experiences while upholding operational and visual standards.

You will use real-time performance insights to drive commercial decisions, manage product availability, and develop talent through structured feedback and clear progression paths to build future leaders in a fast-moving outdoor retail

Qualifications

• Proven experience in retail management and leading teams.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to interpret performance data.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the store through effective leadership, coaching and operational excellence.
• Support and develop colleagues to deliver exceptional customer experiences and strong commercial performance.
• Use real-time performance insights and trading trends to make quick, commercial decisions that elevate store results and maximise every opportunity.
• Maintain the companies premium operational and visual standards — ensuring product availability, impactful presentation, and a safe, compliant environment.
• Develop and grow talent within the store, providing coaching, structured feedback, and clear progression pathways to build future leaders.

Skills

Retail management

Team leadership

Coaching

Commercial awareness

Communication

Job description

This is GO Outdoors. Made for Exploring. Built for Everyone.At GO Outdoors, our purpose is simple: to inspire and equip everyone for life outdoors. From hikers to cyclists, cold-water dippers to weekend campers, we believe the outdoors should be for all - and we’re here to make it accessible with trusted kit and unbeatable value.We’re passionate, practical, and people focused. Our values - welcoming, responsible, authentic, and innovative - guide everything we do as we help the nation discover the joy of being out there. If you’re driven to empower every kind of adventurer and make the outdoors accessible to all, you’ll feel right at home with us.This is your moment. This is GO Outdoors. Are you in?Role OverviewAs a Store Manager you take full ownership of your store’s performance, culture, and daily execution. You play an active role in supporting and developing colleagues while maintaining high operational and commercial standards.You create a high-energy environment where colleagues develop, standards stay consistently high, and customers receive a premium in-store experience. This role is all about effective leadership, strategic commercial awareness, and the ability to support colleagues to perform at their best.Key Responsibilities• Lead the store through effective leadership, coaching and operational excellence• Support and develop colleagues to deliver exceptional customer experiences and strong commercial performance.• Use real-time performance insights and trading trends to make quick, commercial decisions that elevate store results and maximise every opportunity.• Maintain the companies premium operational and visual standards — ensuring product availability, impactful presentation, and a safe, compliant environment.• Develop and grow talent within the store, providing coaching, structured feedback, and clear progression pathways to build future leaders.Skills & Experience Required• Proven experience in retail management with the ability to lead and motivate teams in a fast-moving, high-energy environment.• Strong leader with experience supporting, coaching and developing colleagues and driving store performance.• Strong commercial awareness with strong capability in interpreting performance data, product trends, and customer behaviour.• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, supporting strong teamwork, engagement, and professional customer interactions.• Demonstrated success in delivering strong sales results and maintaining exceptional operational standards.Desirable Attributes• Passionate about retail, products and delivering exceptional customer experiences.• Proactive, solutions driven leader who thrives in a fast paced, ever evolving retail environment.• Hands on and highly visible on the shop floor, leading by example across all areas of the store.• Resilient, adaptable, and composed during busy trading periods, product launches, and high pressure moments.Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of you applying, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager. Thank you again for your time#GO