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 with nearly 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 are recruiting a high-performing Trading Manager to help our business grow and succeed.
Ensuring our stores are fully stocked is key to providing a fantastic customer experience, making this role vital to our success. The Trading Manager's job is to ensure the best availability and standards across all departments, while maintaining legal and safety compliance.
Reporting to 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, performance-driven department
* Managing people routines, including scheduling, absence, performance, and talent development
* Delivering training to empower the team to perform confidently
* Motivating colleagues to work confidently across 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
What we offer in return:
You will have a vital role in our business, with a significant impact on our success. We provide excellent training, ongoing support, and development opportunities, along with a competitive salary and superb benefits.
Our benefits include: a generous bonus, an attractive pension scheme, private healthcare, colleague discounts, and family-friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave, neonatal and fertility leave.
Interested in seeing behind the scenes? Explore our warehouses and colleague canteens through our 360° virtual tour here.
About you
Whether you have retail, hospitality, service industry, or travel & tourism experience, 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
* 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
For over 125 years, we have been shopkeepers committed to providing a great shopping experience. With nearly 500 stores across the UK, our team works together to offer essentials, excellent service, and a vibrant shopping environment. Our focus on freshness and in-store preparation makes us stand out as the UK’s 5th largest supermarket, serving over 11 million customers weekly. We believe in investing in our colleagues and providing industry-leading training to support career growth, with many store managers having started on the shop floor.
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