Morrisons
Trading Manager - Whitley Bay
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Trading Manager – Food & Grocery
About The Role
We Make Morrisons…
From a Bradford market stall to the UK’s fifth-largest supermarket, we are the Yorkshire food retailer serving customers across the UK via over 500 stores, an online store, and a home delivery service.
Our business is mainly food & grocery, with a unique commitment to sourcing and processing most of our fresh food through our own manufacturing facilities.
We’re recruiting for a high-performing Trading Manager to drive our business to continued growth and success.
Ensuring our stores remain fully stocked is crucial to delivering a fantastic customer experience, a core responsibility of this role. The Trading Manager provides market-leading availability and standards alongside legal and safety compliance.
The role involves:
- Reporting to the Store Manager
- Leading teams to deliver exceptional customer service in every interaction
- Planning/organising current promotions and in-store events
- Capturing and responding effectively to customer feedback
- Achieving optimal stock availability across departments
- Collaborating with other store managers to foster a supportive, high-performing culture
- Managing staff scheduling and routines, including absence, performance, and talent reviews
- Delivering training to develop team capability and confidence
- Motivating and leading employees across diverse departments
- Identifying and developing talent to strengthen the team
- Maintaining proactive relationships between operating departments
- Leading with purpose to deliver outstanding performance against departmental targets
- Taking a ensemble leadership role within the store
- Ensuring effective resource planning and operational execution
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Benefits Package
You play a vital role in Morrisons’ success and will receive:
- Excellent training, ongoing support, and continuous development opportunities
- A competitive salary
- An attractive benefits package, including:
- Generous performance bonus
- Private healthcare
- An employee discount scheme for you and your friends/family
- A pension scheme
- Family-friendly policies:
- 26 weeks maternity/adoption leave
- Neonatal and fertility support
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About You
We seek candidates with:
- Retail, hospitality or travel & tourism experience
- A passion for exceptional customer service
- Experience managing and developing teams in a fast-paced environment
- Strong communications skills to share insight and best practices
- Ability to forge and maintain relationships with stakeholders while remaining flexible
- Adaptability, paired with a robust ability to challenge systems/processes
- Active listening and responsive problem-solving for both customers and colleagues
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We are an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all backgrounds.
About Morrisons
For over 125 years, Morrisons has been a trusted name in food retail.
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Serving 11+ million weekly customers across just under 500 stores nationwide
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delivery great value for money while leading the market in fresh food production
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Focused on in-store freshness—we transform more fresh food in-store than any other supermarket chain
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One of the UK’s top-five largest supermarkets, with a small-market, big-grid mentality: "nothing interference" with caring for employees and exceeding expectations— from Market Street to checkout, our team continues to go above and beyond.
At Morrisons:
- We invest in our colleagues via industry-leading training programs
- Advance your career with opportunities across all levels—many current managers began as shop floor colleagues
- Provide a collaborative culture rooted in hands-on experience to support both colleagues and customers.
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