Are you ready to take the lead in a dynamic, fast-paced retail environment where fun, teamwork, and customer satisfaction are at the heart of everything we do? We're opening a brand-new store in Interchange Retail Park, Bedford, and we need an energetic Store Manager to oversee the store – bringing smiles to customers and inspiring brilliant toy shop teams every day.

If you live within 45-60 minutes of the store and are ready to bring energy, enthusiasm, and leadership to our team, we’d love to hear from you!

Entertainer Store Location: Interchange Retail Park, Bedford

Salary: £36,200 plus fantastic benefits

Hours: 42.5 hours per week across 5 days out of 7 including Sundays on a rota basis

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead the team, driving sales and delivering top-notch service.
• Be a brand ambassador, building strong relationships within The Entertainer
• Use your commercial acumen to analyse trade reports and optimise trading space.
• Manage daily operations – from merchandising to stock management – ensuring everything is on point and on time.
• Motivate and develop your teams through positive leadership and hands-on coaching.
• Plan shifts, monitor attendance, and ensure teams are set to deliver exceptional service.
• Champion health and safety, shrinkage prevention, and store security.
• Recruit, induct, and train new team members, helping everyone reach their full potential.

How We’ll Reward You:

We appreciate the hard work and dedication of our teams, which is why we offer amazing benefits, including:

• Buy up to 5 extra holiday days a year, ideal for more rest, adventures, or time for you.
• Pension salary sacrifice to help you plan for the future.
• Retail Trust benefits, including a Virtual GP.
• Birthday Leave plus 33 days holiday.
• Life Cover for added peace of mind.
• Generous toy discount.
• Enhanced maternity & paternity pay.
• High Street & leisure discounts.
• Salary Sacrifice Cycle Purchase Scheme.

What We're Looking For:

• At least 12 months of retail management experience.
• Proven experience in managing high volumes of stock.
• Ability to trade the shop floor and make great commercial decisions.
• A natural leader with experience of managing, developing, and motivating teams.
• Excellent communication and organisation skills.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office and Teams.
• A UK driving license is preferred.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date, should we receive sufficient applications for the role, thank you.