Description
As a Simply Food Store Manager with Marks & Spencer in the Greater Manchester Area, you will lead the delivery of the full retail plan across the store, driving commercial, operational, visual, and people performance to deliver against the P&L.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Setting the strategy and direction for the store, ensuring every colleague knows their part to play and is held to account for delivering it
- Building a high-performance culture by coaching managers, growing talent, and creating a store people want to join and stay in
- Using data and insight to unlock opportunity, making fast, confident decisions that drive profit, improve service, and boost efficiency
- Driving digital adoption and omnichannel capability – helping teams sell across all platforms and channels
- Creating an exceptional customer journey through consistent standards, inspiring visual merchandising, and diverse teams that go the extra mile
To be successful in this role, you will need to be:
- A proven leader of large teams in a fast-paced retail environment, with a sharp focus on delivery, standards, and results
- Confident working across all areas of store performance, including commercial, visual, operations, and people, and knowing how to bring them together for impact
- A clear and direct communicator, with the courage to make tough calls and the skill to bring colleagues with you
- Strong on planning, performance management, and resilience, able to balance the big picture with the detail and always hold the line and set expectations
In return for your hard work, we offer a range of benefits, including:
- 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household
- Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days
- Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business
- A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
- A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills
- Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing
- Industry-leading parental, adoption, and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family
- Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues, including our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist for you and your family
- A charity volunteer day to support a cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work