There has never been a better time to become a Trading Manager with Somerfield. We offer a competitive salary, award winning training, staff discount, 30 days holiday per year (increasing with service) and most importantly to us, unparalleled opportunities to progress your career. Your progression will be constrained only by your own abilities!Now as part of The Co-operative Group, we are the UK's leading community food retailer. We have doubled our share within the food retail market, and have grown from under 1000 stores to over 3000 in the UK. We believe this will propel us to become part of the big ‘5' able to offer more to both our staff and our customers, ensuring we are good for everyone. The Co-operative and Somerfield are better together.
Being a Fresh Trading Manager
Depending on store turnover either two, three or four Trading Managers report directly to the Store Manager, with a team of Supervisors and Colleagues in turn reporting to them. The Trading Manager role is divided into three main areas of the store: Services, Ambient and Fresh: Fresh Trading Manager
Taking Responsibility for all departments offering fresh foods within a store, including Deli, Dairy, Produce, Meat, Bakery and Counters. Our Fresh Trading Managers are passionate about quality, freshness, availability, standards, hygiene and legislation. As a Trading Manager you will be a Duty Manager for the store in absence of the Store Manager, taking full responsibility for delivering great customer service, product availability, store standards and legislation.
You will be supported every step of the way by our market-leading 'Reach' training programme. Self-driven and very hands on, we aim to have you signed off after 12 weeks.
On completion and sign off from your training you will receive a £1,000 salary increase.
Are you a Fresh Trading Manager? The right indivi
We are looking for a high performing Supervisor, Assistant Manager, Duty Manager, Deputy Manager, or Store Manager with people management experience. Our Trading Managers can clearly demonstrate the following qualities: - ‘Hands on' management style
- Drive to achieve targets
- Comfortable leading regular team meetings/appraisals
- Structured prioritisation of workload
- Resilience
- Customer Focused
- Ability to coach and train others
- Comfortable communicating with, and seeking feedback from customers
Join us now!
This really is an exciting time to join a progressive, forward thinking company.
Apply now!
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