Trading Manager -King Street

Morrisons; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Morrisons is seeking a Trading Manager to ensure optimal stock levels and enhance customer experience. This role involves leading a team, managing promotions, and ensuring legal compliance. The ideal candidate will have retail experience and excellent communication skills.

Benefits

Generous bonus

Attractive pension scheme

Private healthcare

Colleague discount

Family-friendly policies

Qualifications

• Experience managing a team in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills to share knowledge and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team to ensure the best shopping experience for customers.
• Manage all people routines, including scheduling and performance.
• Ensure market-leading availability across the store.

Skills

Communication

Team Management

Customer Service

Flexibility

Job description

We Make Morrisons…

From a Bradford market stall to the UK’s fifth largest supermarket, we are proud to be the Yorkshire food retailer serving customers across the UK with almost 500 stores and an online home delivery service.

Our business mainly focuses on food & grocery, and uniquely, we source & process most of the fresh food we sell through our own manufacturing facilities.

We’re recruiting a high-performing Trading Manager to help our business continue to grow and succeed.

Making sure our stores are fully stocked is key to a fantastic customer experience, which is why this role is so vital to our success. It’s the job of our Trading Manager to provide the best availability and standards possible for our customers across all departments, ensuring they remain legal and safe.

Reporting into the Store Manager, you will also:

1. Lead the team to the highest standards and strive to ensure the best shopping experience for every customer
2. Plan and organise current promotions or in-store events
3. Listen and respond to customer feedback and react accordingly
4. Ensure market-leading availability across the store
5. Work with other Managers to lead a supportive and performance-driven department
6. Manage all people routines, including scheduling, absence, performance, and talent conversations
7. Deliver training to ensure the team has the capability and confidence to perform their roles
8. Motivate and lead colleagues across various departments
9. Identify and develop talent within the department
10. Build effective relationships with other operating departments
11. Lead colleagues to work with purpose, delivering outstanding performance against targets
12. Take a leadership role within the store
13. Plan resources thoroughly

How do we say thank you?

You will play a vital role in our business and have a significant impact on our success. You will receive excellent training, support, and development opportunities, along with a competitive salary and superb benefits package.

Want more?

Our benefits include a generous bonus, an attractive pension scheme, private healthcare, and a colleague discount to share with friends and family. We also offer family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of maternity and adoption leave, neonatal and fertility leave.

No doubt you'll have shopped in our stores before, but why not explore some of the areas our customers don’t see, such as our warehouses and colleague canteens, through our 360 tour.

About you

Whether you have experience in retail, hospitality, service industries, or travel & tourism, if you’re passionate about delivering exceptional customer service, we want to hear from you.

What do we need from you?

• Experience managing a team in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills to share knowledge and best practices
• The ability to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders
• Flexibility and adaptability to change
• Active listening and effective response to customers and colleagues

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

About us

Shopkeepers for over 125 years, we love providing our customers with a shopping experience they won’t find anywhere else. With just under 500 stores across the UK, our retail colleagues work as one team to provide essentials, great service, and a lively shopping atmosphere. Our customers keep coming back for more.

As the UK’s 5th largest supermarket, we offer great value and quality in fresh food and groceries to over 11 million customers weekly. Our focus on freshness and in-store preparation makes us stand out. It’s challenging and fast-paced, but our friendly team goes above and beyond to meet customer needs.

At Morrisons, we believe in investing in our colleagues through industry-leading training programs. Many store managers started on the shop floor—understanding the role firsthand helps them support colleagues and serve customers effectively.