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Location

Bridgwater, Somerset | United Kingdom

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Job description

Do you have proven managerial experience and the confidence to motivate, drive and lead a team?

Are you committed to providing the highest levels of customer service? 

If so, we want to hear from you!

A new and exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Bridgwater store as a Retail Manager. This is a full-time position working 37.5 hours per week, 5 out of 7 days on a rota basis.

You live and breathe customer service, your passion shines through you and your team and your customers love it. You will grow a team ready to be there for all of your customers. Experts in their field and our products they will actively engage and support every one of our customers. You will demonstrate your skills through growth in loyalty, sales and basket spend.

Responsibilities;

• All aspects of running the branch.
• People development / management, succession and skillset.
• Communicate safe working practices across the team.
• Conduct assurance activity to ensure compliance with safe working practices.
• Identify need and drive all training activity for Experience team to ensure their expertise with product and company.
• Review recruitment needs in line with business need for the Experience team and make sure correct process is followed.
• Monitor staff levels to assure correctly reflecting the needs of the business.
• Analysing data to look for opportunities to maximise sales and grow ABS.
• Commercial aware of the locality, engaging across all levels of the business to create plans which deliver growth.
• Incentivise team to deliver the best growth in the region.

About You;

• You’ll have a passion for retail and a passion for agriculture!
• You’ll have at least 2 years management experience, gained either within a store based retail role or in a hospitality environment and have been responsible for managing a team of at least 10 people. Ideally, you’ll have experience in a similar, fast-paced environment where you’ve taken a hands-on approach.
• You’ll have a proven track record of delivering high standards and great results!
• You’ll be a people person and a real team player and this combined with your excellent communication skills enables you to really engage and inspire a team.
• You’ll be commercially focused and proactive in your approach.

Please note, this vacancy may close prior to the expiry date if we have received a suitable number of applications.

The company

We are one of the country’s leading agricultural supply businesses offering a complete suite of in-store, on-farm, and online services, inspired by our passion for the agricultural industry and wider rural community.

Originally founded in 1960 by a small group of farmers, over the years we have grown and today we operate over 50 nationwide rural retail locations comprising Mole Valley Farmers, Mole Country Stores, and Farmdirect, along with our direct to farm business providing feed, fertilizer and other inputs to the nation’s farmers.

We exist for the greater good of our farming shareholders and work with them to improve their productivity, profitability, and sustainability.

For everyone who works in one of Mole Valley Farmers’ businesses – just like our customers who live and work in it – the countryside is a way of life and we are committed to UK agriculture.

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