Assistant Manager

Farmfoods Ltd; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A family business in retail is seeking an Assistant Manager for their Wakefield location. This full-time position involves working 43 hours over 5 days a week, including weekends. Key responsibilities include assisting the shop manager, developing retail assistants, and ensuring customer satisfaction. Candidates should possess strong interpersonal skills, some managerial experience, and a commitment to maintaining high operational standards. The position offers a competitive salary and various employee benefits, reflecting the company's dedication to staff development and career growth.

Benefits

30 days holiday

15% staff discount

Great training opportunities

Workplace pension

Free life assurance

Staff benefits package

Qualifications

• A friendly, positive, hard-working approach to work.
• Ability to build strong relationships with colleagues and customers.
• Trustworthy and reliable team member.
• Some experience as a manager, team leader or supervisor.

Responsibilities

• Assist shop manager in running an efficient shop and providing service.
• Develop retail assistants through coaching and mentoring.
• Accountable for shop in absence of manager, ensuring customer care.
• Motivate and guide team to control operational costs.
• Support shop manager with recruitment and induction.

Job description

Assistant Manager – Full Time

Hours: 43 hours across 5 days per week.

Pay: £30,240 - £31,392 per annum.

Benefits: 6 weeks holiday, 15% staff discount, staff benefits package, and more!

We are looking to recruit a new Assistant Manager for our shop in Horbury Road, Wakefield. We offer a permanent full‑time position working a variety of shifts, 5 days a week usually including at least one weekend shift. Please note that for full‑time positions we will generally require you to be fully flexible in your availability for work throughout the week, including weekends.

Pay & Benefits

• 30 days holiday each year.
• Great training and development opportunities.
• 15% staff discount to use in any of our 300+ shops on a great range of food and household essentials.
• A smart uniform.
• Free life assurance.
• Workplace pension.
• A staff benefits package which includes a virtual GP as well as discounted services and products such as cinema tickets, gym memberships, days out and travel.

As one of our assistant managers you will:

• Work closely with the shop manager to run an efficient shop and provide a great service to our customers.
• Be responsible for the development of your team of retail assistants through coaching, mentoring and providing feedback.
• Be accountable for the shop in the absence of the shop manager and responsible for ensuring that customers are looked after, deliveries are worked quickly and shop routines are completed to maintain a safe, clean and tidy shop.
• Take responsibility for motivating and guiding your team to ensure the control of operational costs including shrinkage, waste and payroll.
• Support the shop manager with recruitment and induction of new team members.

You will need:

• A friendly, positive, hard‑working approach to work.
• To be a ‘people person’ who finds it easy to get on with everyone and can build strong working relationships with colleagues and customers.
• To be trustworthy and reliable as you will be an important part of a small team. Your team and customers will depend upon you to do your job to the best of your ability at all times.
• Some experience as a manager, team leader or supervisor.

More than just a job: There are many long‑term opportunities for a career at Farmfoods. We have some great training programmes in place and always look to promote to shop and area manager positions from within. Many people in senior management and central services positions at Farmfoods started their careers in our shops so this could be the start of a rewarding career for you.

A bit about us:

Farmfoods are a family business with ambition. We pride ourselves on offering our customers great value, quality products from clean and tidy shops with the friendliest team in retail. We aim to offer sensational value to customers on a great range of everyday family‑oriented goods. We back up our sensational value with a focus on delivering an ‘old fashioned’, genuine and friendly customer experience.

Contract information:

Position: ASM, Hours: 43, Days: 5