Assistant Manager

Assistant Manager - Full Time

Hours: 43 hours across 5 days per week.

The role requires flexibility to work across the week, including at least one weekend shift.

Pay: £31,449.60 - £35,306.88 per annum on a 43 hour contract.

Pay & Benefits

• 30 days holiday each year.
• Great training and development opportunities.
• 15% staff discount to use in any of our 300+ shops on a great range of food and household essentials.
• A smart uniform.
• Free life assurance.
• Workplace pension.
• A staff benefits package including virtual GP and discounted services such as cinema tickets, gym memberships, days out and travel.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the shop manager to run an efficient shop and provide a great service to our customers.
• Be responsible for the development of your team of retail assistants through coaching, mentoring and providing feedback.
• Be accountable for the shop in the absence of the shop manager and ensure customers are looked after, deliveries are worked quickly and shop routines are completed to maintain a safe, clean and tidy shop.
• Take responsibility for motivating and guiding your team to ensure the control of operational costs including shrinkage, waste and payroll.
• Support the shop manager with recruitment and induction of new team members.

Qualifications & Requirements

• 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 manager, team leader or supervisor.
• To complete an Employment Verification check and a Basic DBS check (England/Wales) or Disclosure Scotland check (Scotland) if successful and offered the advertised position.

Career Development

There are many long-term opportunities for a career at Farmfoods. We have training programmes and promote from within. Many senior managers started in our shops.

About the Company

Farmfoods is a family business with ambition. We pride ourselves on offering 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, with an old fashioned, genuine and friendly customer experience.

Contract Information

Position: ASM, Hours: 43, Days: 5.