Store Manager - Sanquhar

CJ Lang & Sons Ltd; Sanquhar; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A family-owned retail and distribution business in Scotland is seeking a Store Manager for SPAR Sanquhar. The role requires strong leadership and commercial skills to run a retail store effectively and deliver excellent customer service. This position offers competitive salary, comprehensive training, and numerous benefits including gym discounts and 30 days annual leave.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Generous staff discount

Rewards and Benefits platform

Discounted shopping with over 200 retailers

Wellbeing Benefits

Gym discounts

Company pension

30 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience of the retail trade, preferably Grocery sector.
• Experience in managing and leading a team.
• Excellent communication skills required.

Responsibilities

• Manage a highly effective team and develop their skills.
• Deliver the right range and quality of products.
• Support the team to grow sales and maximize profit.
• Lead implementation of Food to Go standards.
• Ensure safe and legal standards are met in the store.

Skills

Leadership

Retail Management

Customer Service

Commercial Awareness

Job description

Overview

C J Lang & Son Ltd is the wholesaler for SPAR Scotland, the largest symbol group in Scotland with over 300 convenience stores across the country. We are a family-owned Retail and Distribution business with our Head Office based in Dundee. We are proud to serve local communities through our Company Owned SPAR Stores throughout Scotland and have a distribution network covering countryside to coast backed by outstanding operational organisation.

Role

Store Manager- SPAR Sanquhar

As Store Manager, you will take full responsibility for running every aspect of a busy retail store. Suitable applicants will demonstrate strong leadership, management, and commercial skills. Additionally, you will be a natural forward planner, managing store operation to deliver excellent customer service and maximise sales and profitability.

If you have a proven background in retail, the determination to deliver, and flexible approach to work, this may be the ideal opportunity for you to take the next step in your career and, to help you achieve this, we offer a comprehensive training programme.

Responsibilities

• Manage a highly effective team, ensuring they have the capability to deliver above and beyond in their role by developing their operational, customer service and team skills.
• Deliver the right range, quality and availability of products in line with SPAR standards, promotions, NPD and customer needs to build loyalty within the community.
• Support your team and use your expertise and knowledge to actively grow sales and maximise profit.
• Lead the implementation and embedding of Food to Go across your team, ensuring that it delivers to standards and sales set.
• Manage your resources to deliver all store activities ensuring that hours are worked when and where these would most benefit customers, and to identify and resolve root cause issues, with sustainable solutions and continual reviews.
• Ensure that your store is meeting or exceeding its safe and legal standards particularly in relation to food safety and hygiene, licensing of alcohol and cigarette sales. To deliver this will include coaching your team to use all tools available to provide a safe, clean, and legal place to work.

About you

• Knowledge and experience of the retail trade with exposure to Grocery sector is preferable.
• Experience at managing and leading a team.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work at pace and react to changing needs of our customers and the business.
• Commercial awareness to drive performance and maximise revenue

Why join us?

• Competitive salary
• Generous staff discount
• Rewards and Benefits platform
• Discounted shopping with over 200 retailers
• Wellbeing Benefits
• Gym discounts
• Company pension
• 30 days annual leave