Store Leader
WHSmith, Beeston, Nottinghamshire
Store Leader
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WHSmith, Beeston, Nottinghamshire
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 1 day ago, 6 Jan | Get your application in today.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: d44a2afc7943486686fde25b812d2b9b
Full Job Description
This is a fantastic opportunity to use your leadership and operational experience to support future growth and development, leading your team to deliver excellence in all aspects of day to day retail. By being proactive and maximising local opportunities, you can really make a mark. By engaging your team, and working in a hands-on way beside them, you'll be able to deliver consistently strong results and really shape the store culture; creating a sense of pride in your team. What you'll do:
- Review the trading plan with your Cluster Manager to set and agree key actions that are reviewed on each visit
- Ensure the store is clean, tidy, priced & full and that colleagues are available at the right times to serve customers
- Use the scorecard proactively to manage performance and target priorities and actions
- Ensure your team members are supported, set clear and measurable targets, performance expectations and objectives, and review regularly to celebrate success and develop a sense of pride in their store.
- Keeps teams up to date on stores, cluster and business performance and appropriately challenge what store teams can do to help
- Work with Head Office to ensure awareness of local environment to maximise local opportunities
- Ensures legal, health and safety and legislative requirements are met within the store
- Adhere to the Corporate Trading plan and proactively achieve the sales numbers to deliver the plan
Working knowledge of KPI's such as ATV and TPC - Is flexible in approach to support the wider cluster/area as required
- Ability to motivate teams, build strong relationships and communicate well at all levels of seniority
- Experience of supporting employee training and development
- Able to adopt an engage rather than tell approach
- Is proactive rather than reactive.
You may know we operate on the high street, in rail and bus stations, airports, hospitals, universities and workplaces. But did you know we've been around since 1792 and have over 14,000 employees across the globe and have consistently outperformed other major retailers over the past ten years? We continue to grow by putting our customers first and have a strong culture of innovation and entrepreneurialism.