We Make Morrisons…
From a Bradford market stall to the UK’s fifth largest supermarket, we are proud to be the Yorkshire food retailer serving customers across the UK through almost 500 stores and an online home delivery service.
Our business primarily focuses on food & grocery, and uniquely, we source & process most of the fresh food we sell through our own manufacturing facilities.
We’re recruiting for a high-performing Trading Manager to help our business continue to grow and succeed.
Ensuring our stores are fully stocked is key to providing a fantastic customer experience, which is why this role is so vital to our success. The Trading Manager's job is to provide the best availability and standards possible for our customers across all departments, ensuring compliance with legal and safety standards.
Reporting into the Store Manager, your responsibilities will include:
* Leading the team to the highest standards and striving to ensure the best shopping experience for every customer
* Planning and organizing current promotions and in-store events
* Listening to customer feedback and responding appropriately
* Ensuring market-leading product availability across the store
* Collaborating with other managers to lead a supportive and performance-driven department
* Managing all people routines, including scheduling, absence, performance, and talent development
* Delivering training to empower the team to perform confidently in their roles
* Motivating colleagues to work confidently across various departments
* Identifying and developing talent within the department
* Building effective relationships with other operational departments
* Leading colleagues to achieve outstanding performance against targets
* Taking a leadership role within the store
* Planning resources thoroughly
Why join us?
You will play a vital role in our business and have a significant impact on our success. We offer excellent training, ongoing support, and development opportunities, along with a competitive salary and superb benefits.
Our benefits include: a generous bonus, attractive pension scheme, private healthcare, colleague discounts, and family-friendly policies such as 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave, neonatal and fertility leave.
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About you
Whether you have experience in retail, hospitality, service, or travel & tourism, if you are passionate about delivering exceptional customer service, we want to hear from you.
What we need from you:
* Experience managing a team in a fast-paced environment
* Excellent communication skills to share knowledge and best practices
* Ability to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across all areas
* Flexibility and adaptability to change, with the ability to challenge effectively
* Active listening skills to respond effectively to customers and colleagues
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
About us
With over 125 years of history, we love providing our customers with a unique shopping experience. Operating nearly 500 stores across the UK, our colleagues work as one team to offer essential food, excellent service, and a lively shopping environment. Our customers keep returning because of our focus on freshness and quality, with more in-store fresh food preparation than any other supermarket. It’s challenging, fast-paced, but rewarding work, from Market Street to checkout.
At Morrisons, we invest in our colleagues through industry-leading training programs. Many of our store managers started on the shop floor, gaining firsthand experience to support colleagues and serve customers effectively.
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