Store Manager - WHSmith
12 days ago
Birmingham
Location: Frankley Services, M5 between Junction 3 and 4, Illey Ln, Birmingham, B32 4AR Salary: £31,000 per annum Hours: 40 hours per week As a Store Manager, you will understand that it is all about people; it’s where we look to create a memorable customer experience. We’ll empower you to treat your store as your own and help shape the winning culture that we are aspiring to achieve. As a Store Manager you’ll lead your team in delivering WHSmith’s handy range travel essentials and exceptional service as we transform the UK’s rest stop experience. • Annual bonus up to £7,800 pa (up to 20%, dependent on location and performance), • Up to 60% colleague discount for you, family, and friends with brands such as Costa Coffee, Pret A Manger, M&S Simply Food, Burger King, Greggs, KFC, WHSmith and more, • Enhanced benefits, including pension, sick pay, maternity, paternity, and life assurance, • Fabulous development opportunities including funded qualifications, leading to the next step in your career being a Site Operations Manager, • Ensure that the WHSmith unit achieves, as a minimum, the financial targets agreed budget and P&L, • Support and develop your team, ensuring that each colleague feels valued, supported, and able to grow both personally and professionally, • Adhere to and ensure delivery of brand standards, • Drive consistent high quality customer service and sales, • Lead shifts including opening and closing the unit, • A proven track record in managing and leading teams in a high volume, retail, or catering brand environment, • Previous experience working to and delivering against budgets, P&L, labour costs and ratios and cost saving initiatives, • Ability to build strong and positive relationships with stakeholders, • Experience motivating and increasing the performance of your team with mentoring, training, and succession planning We offer flexible working arrangements, including options to adjust your hours, work compressed schedules, or follow a fixed shift pattern to support your work‑life balance. Where our customer’s journey pauses, yours just begins. Ready to start your journey with us, Apply today! Please note internally this role is called Department Manager #J-18808-Ljbffr