Trading Manager -King Street

Morrisons; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Morrisons is seeking a Trading Manager to ensure top-notch product availability and customer experience. This role involves leading a team, managing promotions, and developing talent. The successful candidate will enjoy a competitive salary and a robust benefits package, including bonuses and private healthcare.

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

• Leading the team to the highest standards for customer experience.
• Ensuring market-leading product availability across the store.
• Delivering training to empower the team.

Skills

Communication

Team Management

Customer Service

Flexibility

Active Listening

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 through 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.

Ensuring our stores are fully stocked is key to a fantastic customer experience, making this role vital to our success. The Trading Manager's job is to provide the best availability and standards possible across all departments, ensuring compliance with legal and safety standards.

Reporting to the Store Manager, your responsibilities will include:

1. Leading the team to the highest standards and ensuring the best shopping experience for every customer
2. Planning and organizing current promotions or in-store events
3. Listening to customer feedback and responding accordingly
4. Ensuring market-leading product availability across the store
5. Collaborating with other store managers to lead a supportive, performance-driven department
6. Managing people routines, including scheduling, absence, performance, and talent development
7. Delivering training to empower the team to perform confidently
8. Motivating colleagues to work confidently across departments
9. Identifying and developing talent within the department
10. Building effective relationships with other departments
11. Leading colleagues to achieve outstanding performance against targets
12. Taking a leadership role within the store
13. Planning resources thoroughly

What we offer in return?

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

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

Interested in seeing behind the scenes? Explore our warehouses and colleagues' canteens through our 360 tour.

About you

If you have experience in retail, hospitality, service industries, or travel & tourism, and a passion for 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
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with stakeholders across all areas
• Flexibility and adaptability to change
• Active listening skills to respond effectively to customers and colleagues

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

About us

For over 125 years, we have been shopkeepers committed to providing a great shopping experience. With just under 500 stores across the UK, our retail colleagues work as one team to offer essential food, excellent service, and a lively shopping environment. Our customers keep returning because of our focus on freshness and quality.

As the UK’s 5th largest supermarket, we deliver great value and fresh groceries to over 11 million customers weekly. Our focus on preparing more fresh food in-store than any other supermarket sets us apart. It’s challenging and fast-paced, but our friendly team strives to go above and beyond for our customers.

At Morrisons, we invest in our colleagues and provide industry-leading training programs. Many of our store managers started on the shop floor, understanding firsthand what it takes to support colleagues and serve customers effectively.