Retail Supervisor

Farmfoods Ltd; Preston; On-site; GBP 6,000; Full time

Job summary

A family-run retail company is seeking a Retail Supervisor for their shop in Preston, England. This full-time position involves managing daily operations, supporting a small team, and ensuring great customer service. The ideal candidate will demonstrate leadership, reliability, and excellent interpersonal skills. With 39 hours of guaranteed work per week, the role offers a range of benefits including 6 weeks holiday and a 15% staff discount. A perfect opportunity for those looking to advance their career in retail management.

Benefits

15% staff discount

6 weeks holiday

Training and development opportunities

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Qualifications

• Positive approach to work and ability to build relationships.
• Trustworthy and reliable with a focus on teamwork.
• Some experience in retail supervision or team leadership is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Support management in running the shop efficiently.
• Handle shop opening and closing procedures.
• Control operational costs including shrinkage and waste.

Skills

People skills

Reliability

Team leadership

Customer service

Job description

Overview

Retail Supervisor – Full Time

Responsibilities

• Be an important part of the management team and support the manager in leading the team to run an efficient shop and provide a great service to our customers.
• Take full responsibility for running the shop in your manager’s absence ensuring that customers are looked after, deliveries are worked quickly and shop routines are completed to maintain a safe, clean and tidy shop.
• Open and close the shop, handle cash, place orders and develop your team of retail assistants.
• Take responsibility for the control of operational costs including shrinkage, waste and payroll.

What you will need

• A friendly, positive, hard working approach to work.
• To be a ‘people person’ who finds it easy to get on everyone and is able to build strong working relationships with the people you work with.
• 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 supervisor, team leader or manager in retail or other similar industries would certainly come in handy but we would still love to hear from you if you think you’ve got what it takes to take the first steps in your retail management career.

Pay & Benefits

• Hours: 39 hours across 5 days per week.
• Pay: £13.11 per hour.
• Benefits: 6 weeks holiday, 15% staff discount, staff benefits package, and more.
• Pay is guaranteed a minimum of 39 hours per week; overtime may be available.
• Additional benefits: 30 days holiday per year, great training and development opportunities, 15% staff discount, smart uniform, free life assurance, workplace pension, staff benefits package including virtual GP and discounted services.

We are looking to recruit a new retail supervisor for our shop in Preston, Lancashire. We offer a permanent 39 hour full time position working a variety of shifts, 5 days from 7 each week. 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.

About Farmfoods

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. Our supervisors are important members of the shop management team providing support to a small team of retail assistants and ensuring that their shops run smoothly and efficiently to provide great service to our customers.

More than just a job

If you decide to stick around then there are many long-term opportunities for a career at Farmfoods. We have some great training programmes and always look to promote to Shop and Area Manager positions from within. Many people in 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.

Contract information

Position: FTSV, Hours: 39, Days: 5