Store Manager - Spean Bridge

CJ Lang & Son Limited; Spean Bridge; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A family-owned retail and distribution business seeks a dynamic Store Manager for its SPAR location in Spean Bridge. This role offers the chance to lead a dedicated team, ensuring exceptional customer service while maximizing sales and profitability. Ideal candidates will possess strong leadership and commercial skills, with a proven background in retail management. You'll be responsible for delivering quality products, training your team, and maintaining high standards of safety and hygiene. Join a forward-thinking company that values community and offers a comprehensive training program to help you succeed in your career.

Benefits

Company pension

Employee discount

Store discount

Qualifications

• Proven background in retail with strong leadership and management skills.
• Ability to deliver excellent customer service and maximize sales.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team to ensure high performance and customer service.
• Deliver quality products and support team growth to maximize profit.
• Ensure compliance with food safety and legal standards.

Skills

Leadership

Management

Commercial Skills

Customer Service

Communication

Retail Knowledge

Education

Experience in Retail Management

Exposure to Grocery Sector

Job description

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.

Store Manager - SPAR Spean Bridge

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 operations to deliver excellent customer service and maximize sales and profitability.

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

About the Role

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Support your team and use your expertise and knowledge to actively grow sales and maximize profit.
4. Lead the implementation and embedding of Food to Go across your team, ensuring that it delivers to standards and sales set.
5. 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.
6. 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. This will include coaching your team to use all tools available to provide a safe, clean, and legal place to work.

About you…

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

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Store discount

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability
• Ability to currently commute to Spean Bridge