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Assistant Manager - SPAR Store
We have an exciting opportunity for you, we are looking for a SPAR Store Assistant Manager who is motivated, friendly, hands-on, and very excited about being an important part of a small team, learning whilst working to ensure our SPAR store offers excellent service and standards to our customers. We can offer you the training and development you need.
A.F. Blakemore & Son Ltd is the 60th largest privately owned company in the UK. This forward-thinking family-owned business began life in 1917 as a counter-service grocery store and has grown from these humble beginnings into a company that now owns 280 SPAR Convenience Stores and employs more than 7,500 people with a turnover in excess of £1 billion. As one of the largest convenience retailers in the UK, we are always looking for innovative ways to create a point of difference. Our stores offer a wide range of food-to-go options, including Food To Go and Daily Deli as well as a number of franchise partners to increase the choice available to customers such as Subway & Greggs.
Key Tasks/Responsibilities:
Assistant Store Manager Requirements:
What's in it for you?
Department: Retail
Contract type: Permanent, full time
Hours: 40 Hours p/w
Location: Ponthir
Salary: £22,000 p/a plus ability to earn managers bonus
Closing date for applications: 13th August 2022
You may have experience of the following: Retail Manager, Assistant Store Manager, Retail, Convenience, FMCG, Grocery Manager, Supermarket, Food, Retail Management, Business Development, Food Service, Convenience Store, Store Manager, Retail Manager, Branch Manager, etc.
Ref: 134 722
A.F. Blakemore & Son Ltd is the 60th largest privately owned company in the UK. This forward-thinking family-owned business began life in 1917 as a counter-service grocery store and has grown from these humble beginnings into a company that now owns 280 SPAR Convenience Stores and employs more than 7,500 people with a turnover in excess of £1 billion. As one of the largest convenience retailers in the UK, we are always looking for innovative ways to create a point of difference. Our stores offer a wide range of food-to-go options, including Food To Go and Daily Deli as well as a number of franchise partners to increase the choice available to customers such as Subway & Greggs.
Key Tasks/Responsibilities:
- To deliver customer service in line with SPARkling Service standards
- To be fully aware of KRAs and assist in working to deliver and improve them.
- To generate ideas for driving the business and its team forward
- To assist in monitoring competitor activity
- To assist in developing a motivated and empowered team through a positive management style
- To assist in ensuring training is delivered as scheduled
- To use relevant processes and policies to control the security of people, stock and cash
- To ensure compliance with relevant legislation and health and food safety responsibilities as defined in the induction and training
Assistant Store Manager Requirements:
- Previous junior experience at a supervisory or managerial level in a food retail environment (or similar) (essential)
- APLH (Award for Personal License Holder) - must have or be prepared to undertake this qualification
- An understanding of budgets and targets and the ability to work to deliver and improve them (essential
- Basic knowledge of health and food safety and legislative responsibilities of a retail environment and the skill to manage those responsibilities (essential
- Experience of managing a Challenge 25 policy (desirable)
What's in it for you?
- Develop your skills and capability in a highly supportive and multi-diverse culture
- Outstanding Training & Development
- Gain hands-on experience in a high volume, fast paced convenience store
- Generous staff discount
- Proactive promotion of internal candidates
- Paid Breaks
- Free Tea & Coffee
- Excellent benefits package including:
- Early access to your pay through EarlyPay
- 24/7 access to your payslips and Rotas via HR/Payroll portal
- 10% Staff Discount in our SPAR stores
- Access to our colleague benefits scheme which offers a wide range of high street retail, holiday & leisure discounts
- Company Life Insurance worth 1 x Annual Salary and 6 x Annual Salary with Company Pension Scheme
- Company Pension Scheme
- NEST pension scheme
- Extra Holidays - Purchase Scheme
- Cycle to work - Bicycle purchase scheme
- Long Service Awards (e.g., 25 years service is £500 in vouchers and extra 4 weeks paid leave)
- Free On-site Car Parking
Department: Retail
Contract type: Permanent, full time
Hours: 40 Hours p/w
Location: Ponthir
Salary: £22,000 p/a plus ability to earn managers bonus
Closing date for applications: 13th August 2022
You may have experience of the following: Retail Manager, Assistant Store Manager, Retail, Convenience, FMCG, Grocery Manager, Supermarket, Food, Retail Management, Business Development, Food Service, Convenience Store, Store Manager, Retail Manager, Branch Manager, etc.
Ref: 134 722