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Stock Manager - Southampton Hedge End
Stock Manager – permanent position | variabile hours: 26.50 hours/week
SHIFTS CONNINGIOU (flexible) Mon 08:00 – 11:00; Wed 14:30 – 22:00; Thu 09:30 – 13:30; Fri 08:00 – 14:30; Sat 14:00 – 21:00
This is an exciting opportunity to lead, inspire, and develop a supportive, high-performing team in a dynamic environment. If you thrive in a challenging, fast-paced role—where every day brings variety, responsibility, and personal growth—we’d love to hear from you.
## About the Role
As Stock Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in driving operational excellence and delivering exceptional service to our customers. Operating within a fast-paced online and in-store environment, your responsibilities will include ensuring smooth stock management and optimising performance to meet ambitious targets.
Key objectives include:
- Leading your team to prioritise target deliverables, such as swift refund processing and rapid order fulfilment for online customers.
- Maintaining safe, efficient communication between your stock team, your Store management, and wider logistics functions.
- Coaching, motivating, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement—so your team can perform at their best.
- Ensuring high standards in accuracy, safety, and operational efficiency while adapting to changing demands.
- Keeping rapid, reliable communication initiatives in place to meet real-time business needs.
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## Your Responsibilities
As a Stock Manager, you’ll drive change and results through:
- Collaborating with the Store management team, supporting operations across back-of-house and maintaining effective communication with the Store Manager.
- Managing your team to execute accurate stock processes, keeping every operation operationally efficient, safe, and target-aligned.
- Creating a supportive, empowering work culture where coaching, motivation, and encouragement are central to team success.
- Taking a hands-on approach—adapting quickly, problem-solving, and working closely with your team to meet both operational and commercial challenges.
- Ensuring ideas and updates on target progress flow smoothly to meet business objectives in real time.
Your inspirational leadership sets the tone—not only for stock performance but also for a dynamic, customer-centric environment.
## Requirements
- Passion for our customers, team, and products, with a drive to inspire energy and motivation in others.
- Strong leadership with people skills—experiences in coaching, motivating and fostering team spirit, backed by a calm, approachable demeanour under pressure.
- High adaptability—an aptitude to working in a results-driven, fast environment and quickly aligning your team to new challenges.
- Exceptional problem-solving & business decision-making, with the ability to challenge outdated processes and innovate solutions.
- Must be an effective multitasker, able to plan workloads, prioritise efficiently, and stay organised amidst diverse tasks.
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⚠️ Right to Work in the UK: During the recruitment process, successful candidates must share proof of eligibility under Home Office guidance. Next currently does not sponsor visas for this role due to Home Office requirements on skill levels.
## About You: Cultural Fit Matters
- You bring a passionate, energetic approach to work, using it to inspire and engage your team and create a productive, team-focused atmosphere.
- You’re a great communicator—friendly, efficient, and able to work naturally with diverse colleagues at all levels, staying clinically calm under time-sensitive demands.
- A true team player, you thrive in both high-intensity and challenging environments, bringing the team with you as you adapt to new goals.
- Resourcefulness is key—you’ve got the confidence to challenge old workflows and suggest better, innovative methods that lift the whole business.
**## Benefits ****
- Fantastic Rewards for Doing Great Work
- Notable Discounts:
- 25% off our own brands (NEXT, MADE, Lipsy*, Gap*, Victoria’s Secret*** products—when purchased through Next).
- 10-15% discounts off partner brands and beauty.
- Salary supplements:
- Bonus sharesave scheme (save, invest for the future)
- 60% off a generous optional work wardrobe allowance (minimum 6-week contract) to shop our styles.
- Exclusive employee-only benefits:
- Early VIP access to sale stock.
- Hot deals & exclusive offers via our online platform (with discounts from over 3,500 high-street retailers).
- Free in-store staff shops with major saving opportunities.
- Health & Wellbeing Support:
- Access to a 24/7 virtual GP service and a wide range of other digital health resources.
- Optional group health insurance at discounted rates for you and your family.
- Yearly savings & financial guidance (Financial Wellbeing support).
- Wellhub platform for customised gym memberships, PT sessions, and utilities to enhance fitness.
- Work-Life Flexibility:
- Optional weekend delivery (Free express shipping for items picked up at your store).
- Workplace mental health and disability support guaranteed.
- Learning & Growth:
- Apprenticeships available (across all stores in the UK).
- Stunning company culture and recognition of going-the-extra-mile beyond reward packages.
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Discounts and areas are subject to change. These benefits are discretionary.
**##-we’re a FTSE 100 global brand, and you get to be part of our story.
Did you know..."** Next isn’t just for UK shops. With over 44,000 roles globally, a 440-store network, and online reach spanning 80+ countries, we’re the 2nd largest fashion retailer in the UK and proudly rank as the market leader in kidswear.
Would you like to join a team with a global vision, dress sensibility acumen, and coaching culture that works hard but celebrates the easier? We’ll give you the autonomy, support, and encouragement to grow—which reflects the shared vision of successful individuals and as one.
## What’s Next?
If your application aligns closely with our techniques and expectations, our recruitment team will follow up. Shortlisted candidates move to a Telephone / Video Interview to discuss your journey and why Next.
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## Diversity and Inclusion: We value support.
If at any stage during your application you need extra accommodation (due to a disability or long-term health condition), we kindly ask you to contact us for adjustments. Reach out directly for support:
- Email: careers@next.co.uk (please specify "Workplace Adjustments" in the subject line)
- Phone support desk: +0044 0116 479 2223 Our lines are open Mon-Thu: 9am–5pm; Fri: 9am–4:45pm; Sat-Sun: 9am–5pm-4pm. Bank holidays customers covered.
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