We're looking for a passionate, hands-on Assistant Manager to help create the best shopping experience in our brand-new store in Interchange Retail Park, Bedford. If you thrive in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment, love working with toys and enjoy leading a team to success, this could be the perfect role for you.
If you're within a 45 to 60-minute commute and ready to bring passion, enthusiasm, and strong leadership to our team, we’d love to hear from you!
Location: Interchange Retail Park, Bedford
Salary: £30,500 plus fantastic benefits
Hours: 42.5 hours per week, working 5 days out of 7 with Sundays on a rota basis
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Supporting the Store Manager in driving sales, smashing targets, and keeping shrinkage to a minimum.
- Leading and motivating your team, ensuring they deliver exceptional customer service.
- Keeping the store looking amazing, fully stocked, and ready to delight shoppers.
- Using reports and data to make smart commercial decisions.
- Managing stock, staffing schedules, and store operations like a pro.
- Stepping up to run the store in the Manager’s absence
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 supervisory or management experience.
- A people person with strong communication and leadership skills.
- A commercially aware individual who can adapt and react quickly.
- Someone tech-savvy—comfortable using Microsoft Office and Teams.
- A positive, can-do attitude with a passion for toys and retail
We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date, should we receive sufficient applications for the role, thank you.
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