Lakeland
Location
Canterbury, Kent | United Kingdom
Job description
Your inspirational leadership will make our store a great place to work for your team. Somewhere they can be themselves and progress in a rewarding career with a company that always looks to promote talent internally.
You’ll be in competition with sites of outstanding natural beauty, but you’ll nevertheless aim to make visiting our stores a highlight of every customers’ day. That’s a challenge you’ll take on every day by driving standards among your team and setting goals for their ongoing development.
Deputising for the Store Manager when required, you’ll use sales figures as your guide as you help them develop strategies for recruitment and stock management as well as a labour model aligning resource to demand. As you do that, you’ll ready yourself to make the step up to being the manager for real when the time comes.
You’ll be able to win over the team straightaway with your passionate and energetic approach to what you do. An experienced hand in retail management, you’ll know how to get the best out of your team members and assist their development with training that will keep them motivated and always improving.
By looking analytically at performance, you’ll be able to identify ways to make us better at what we do so we can smash KPIs and move forward as a better retailer. You’ll want to get creative and make a real difference with your next career move—at Lakeland we’re ready for you to do exactly that.
Founded in the early 60s, we're still a family-owned business with the same strong values of quality and customer care now as when we first started. From selling plastic bags for home freezing from the Rayner family garage in Windermere, to over 4000 kitchen and home products today, Lakeland has grown to the extent that we now send out thousands of parcels a day from our Kendal despatch centre, and we have stores nationwide, stretching from Aberdeen to Exeter, with more in the pipeline..
There are many benefits to being part of the Lakeland team. Other than being part of a huge and happy working family, our colleagues are rewarded with a competitive salary, discretionary bonus scheme and a group personal pension plan.
There are 29 days’ paid holiday (including bank holidays) and generous discounts on our products. We offer a great retail environment, and the chance to be part of a team who like to work and socialise together.
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