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Somerfield Stores
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| Company address: | Somerfield House
Whitchurch Lane
Bristol
Avon
BS14 0TJ
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| Description: | To view all our current vacancies click here
Welcome. This profile gives you a brief overview of the Somerfield businesses in England Scotland and Wales, the size and scope and some of the opportunities for experienced retailers. You can find out more by following the link to our corporate site or, if weve convinced you to find out more, apply for any live vacancies here on the totaljobs site.
Key Facts
For the year ending April 2005, Somerfield plc delivered:
- £5.2 billion annual sales
- Operating profit £66.4m up 63% year on year
- Profit before tax £53.1m up 63% year on year
- Earnings per share up 49% year on year
Somerfield plc incorporates c. 800 Somerfield stores. This is more stores than any other full service food retailer in the UK.
Somerfield plc has:
- 60,000 staff - mix of full time and part-time
- 12,000,000 customers every week
- Over 5,000 own label products, more than 65 different fresh organic lines and over 300 organic products
- Removed all GM ingredients from own label foods
- Commitment to regional sourcing with over 1,300 local lines in local stores
Somerfield prides itself on delivering the Good food made easy message as a modern high street retailer by offering high quality groceries with a particular emphasis on fresh foods. The supermarket offers an exciting range of innovate, contemporary products including premium quality ready meals and an extensive range of own-label food and wine coupled with reliable family basics.
Store Management
Somerfield
Somerfield Store Managers come in all shapes and sizes and many from different backgrounds. Some have been with us from before the birth of the Somerfield brand (we pride ourselves on the way that some of our people have built their careers from general assistants to senior executives), while others have been tempted to join us more recently having discovered the possibilities inherent in the job and the direction the business is moving.
There are some things they all share however.
They've all had some food retail experience and they will all have had supervisory responsibilities and be used to building and developing teams. It's pretty important that they had some exposure to running a P&L and managing budgets too commercial nous is an important pre-requisite. Many of them will have considerably more experience than this and may have developed their management skills as Department Head/Deputy Manager in a large food retailer, have run convenience stores or forecourt stores or even pub retail, fast food or leisure management.
What marks them out however is their attitude to the role. They all share our passion for giving brilliant customer service so that people come back time and time again and they are driven to succeed in whatever job they do.
Under 'Cultural fit' in the job description, we talk about the ability to understand customers' needs; awareness of what's going on in the local environment and taking account of this in decision making; achieving results by involving people rather than pulling rank; an uncompromising view of operational procedures; and someone who sees planning and prioritising as the key to success.
You will find that, given these shared values, you have a surprising amount of freedom to determine how you run your store after all, we reckon that you know your customers best but you will certainly not be left on your own. Support comes in many forms, from your Divisional Executive to the Support Centre in Bristol. It's from here that you will receive a comprehensive training programme which will be developed to suit your needs and aspirations.
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