Farmfoods
Assistant Manager
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Assistant Manager - Full Time
Hours: 43 hours across 5 days per week.
Pay: £31,449 - £32,648 per annum.
Benefits: 6 weeks holiday, 15% staff discount, staff benefits package, and more!
We are looking to recruit a new Assistant Manager for our shop in Stamfordham Road, Newcastle upon Tyne. We offer a permanent full-time position working a variety of shifts 5 days from 7 each week usually including at least one weekend shift.
Please note that for full-time positions, we will generally require you to be fully flexible in your availability for work throughout the week, including weekends.
Pay & Benefits
- Salary: £31,449.60 - £32,648.16 per annum on a 43-hour contract.
- Additional 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 which includes a virtual GP as well as discounted services and products such as cinema tickets, gym memberships, days out, and travel.
Responsibilities
As one of our Assistant Managers, you will:
- 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 responsible for ensuring that 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.
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Requirements
You will need:
- A friendly, positive, hard-working approach to work.
- To be a ‘people person’ who finds it easy to get on with 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 a Basic DBS check (England/Wales) or Disclosure Scotland check (Scotland) if hired for the advertised position which will be sent to you via email and confirm if you have any previous or unspent convictions. Your employment is subject to a satisfactory check.
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More than just a job
There are many long-term opportunities for a career at Farmfoods. We have some great training programmes in place and always look to promote to shop and area manager positions from within. Many people in senior management and central services positions at Farmfoods started their careers in our shops so this could be the start of a rewarding career for you.
A bit about us
Farmfoods are a family business with ambition. We pride ourselves on offering our 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. We back up our sensational value with a focus on delivering an ‘old-fashioned’, genuine, and friendly customer experience.
Our Assistant Managers are important members of the shop management team providing support to a small team of retail assistants and ensuring that their shops run smoothly and efficiently to provide great service to our customers.
Contract Information
- Position: ASM
- Hours: 43
- Days: 5
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