Store Manager - Henley (MAT Cover)

The-White-Company; Henley-on-Thames; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

50% discount on products

25 days holiday increasing to 28

Volunteer Day with a charity

Discretionary annual bonus

Perk Place Benefits Platform

Group Personal Pension scheme

Wagestream Money Management app

Private Medical Insurance

Life assurance

Social - Christmas events

Job summary

The White Company is seeking a Store Manager in the United Kingdom to lead a premium retail site, delivering exceptional customer experiences and maintaining brand standards. You will guide a capable team, manage performance, and drive commercial results across channels.

You will be responsible for turning customer insights into action, coaching staff, and ensuring a beautiful, well-presented store that reflects the brand’s values.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading a premium or lifestyle retail store.
• A confident, inspiring leader who thrives on developing others and building strong teams.
• Commercially astute, with a clear understanding of P&L, KPIs, and trading dynamics.
• An excellent communicator and relationship builder, both internally and externally.
• Calm, decisive, and solutions-focused, even in peak trading environments.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary brand guardian within your store, ensuring every customer interaction reflects The White Company values and premium standards.
• Lead the delivery of an exceptional end-to-end customer experience, using data, feedback, and insight to review service performance and drive continuous improvement.
• Build strong, lasting customer relationships that encourage loyalty, advocacy, and data capture.
• Ensure customers are supported across in-store, online, and remote shopping options.
• Handle customer feedback and resolve issues with empathy, professionalism, and sound judgement.
• Identify and deliver local marketing opportunities to grow awareness, footfall, and engagement within the local community.

Skills

Premium retail leadership

Customer experience focus

P&L and KPIs understanding

Excellent communicator

People development

Job description

Our Role

As a Store Manager, you are accountable for the overall success of your store. You balance strong commercial performance with people-led leadership, ensuring your team feels inspired, capable, and clear on expectations. You take full ownership of the customer experience, visual standards, operational delivery, and business results, creating a store that consistently reflects The White Company brand.

This role represents a progression from delivering results personally to enabling sustained performance through others — building capability, shaping culture, and making confident, informed decisions that support both immediate outcomes and long-term success.

What you'll be doing

• Customer and Brand Experience

  • Act as the primary brand guardian within your store, ensuring every customer interaction reflects The White Company values and premium standards.
  • Lead the delivery of an exceptional end-to-end customer experience, using data, feedback, and insight to review service performance and drive continuous improvement.
  • Build strong, lasting customer relationships that encourage loyalty, advocacy, and data capture.
  • Ensure customers are supported seamlessly across all channels, including in-store, online, and remote shopping options.
  • Handle customer feedback and resolve issues with empathy, professionalism, and sound judgement, following up where needed to strengthen trust and confidence.
  • Identify and deliver local marketing opportunities to grow awareness, footfall, and engagement within the local community.

  People and Culture: Leading the Team

  • Lead, coach, and inspire a high-performing team to deliver outstanding results and uphold brand standards.
  • Create and sustain a strong training culture, ensuring learning, development, and coaching are embedded into everyday ways of working.
  • Develop talent through regular feedback, coaching, and structured performance conversations.
  • Build robust succession plans by identifying potential and supporting career development within the team.
  • Create a positive, inclusive, and accountable culture where everyone feels valued and clear on expectations.
  • Manage performance, conduct, and absence fairly and consistently, in line with company policies.
  • Act as a role model for behaviours, professionalism, and leadership standards across the store.

  Operational and Commercial Excellence: Driving Performance

  • Take full ownership of store performance, including sales, payroll, stock, and profit, with a clear understanding of P&L drivers and cost control.
  • Analyse KPIs, category reports, footfall, conversion, data capture, and customer insight through a robust rhythm and routine, ensuring performance is regularly reviewed, actions are followed up, and opportunities are consistently progressed.
  • Translate commercial insight into clear, practical actions for the team, building understanding and ownership at all levels.
  • Lead the planning and delivery of peak trading periods, ensuring the store is resourced, prepared, and focused on both customer experience and commercial results.
  • Create a commercially focused environment where the sales floor and visual presentation are continually reviewed and optimised.
  • Ensure the store is always beautifully presented, maintaining exceptional standards across visual merchandising, product presentation, housekeeping, and clear communication of seasonal messaging and storytelling.
  • Balance operational efficiency with exceptional service, ensuring ways of working enable the team to deliver both strong standards and a premium customer experience.
  • Identify and act on local opportunities to grow the customer base, strengthen partnerships, and elevate brand presence.
  • Build strong relationships with neighbouring retailers, Centre Management, and local stakeholders to support store success.
  • Actively contribute to the wider area team through collaboration, sharing best practice, and supporting area priorities.
  • Ensure operational excellence through strong compliance, health & safety, audit standards, and effective daily routines.

About You

• Proven experience leading a premium or lifestyle retail store.
• A confident, inspiring leader who thrives on developing others and building strong teams.
• Commercially astute, with a clear understanding of P&L, KPIs, and trading dynamics.
• An excellent communicator and relationship builder, both internally and externally.
• Calm, decisive, and solutions-focused, even in high-pressure or peak trading environments.
• Organised, adaptable, and comfortable managing multiple priorities.
• A genuine passion for The White Company brand, with a strong commitment to protecting and bringing our values, aesthetic, and customer experience to life.

Please read through the attached Job Description for more detail.

What we offer you

At The White Company, we value our employees for always going the extra mile for every one of our customers; we reward this with great benefits and competitive salaries.

• 50% discount on our products,
• 25 days holiday rising to 28 during service,
• A Volunteer Day with a charity of your choice,
• In addition to a competitive salary, a discretionary bonus scheme may be rewarded annually,
• Perk Place Benefits Platform – offering a variety of discounts across wellbeing and lifestyle,
• Automatic enrolment into the Group Personal Pension scheme,
• Wagestream Money Management app - access to Wagestream gives you power over your pay and supports financial wellbeing,
• Private Medical Insurance,
• Following successful probationary completion, you'll be covered by our life assurance plan,
• Social - Christmas party/social events throughout the year

Our Equality Diversity and Inclusion statement of commitment

At The White Company we are committed to creating an inclusive culture that welcomes and celebrates a diversity of backgrounds and identities.

We are working together to ensure our environment is one where people can bring their authentic selves to work, where their contribution is valued, ability enhanced, and perspective appreciated. Where difference is respected, encouraged, and celebrated. Where you can feel you belong.

We are committed to an active Equality Diversity and Inclusion Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process.

We'd love you to join us on our journey.

Our Sustainability statement of commitment

We are committed to building a sustainable legacy that will enable a brighter future for people and our planet.’ We believe this should be reflected in everything we do.