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 mainly 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 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 vital to our success. The Trading Manager is responsible for providing the best availability and standards across all departments, ensuring compliance with legal and safety standards.
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 and performance-driven department
* Managing all people routines, including scheduling, absence, performance, and talent development
* Delivering training to empower the team to perform confidently
* 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 with a significant impact on our success. We offer excellent training, support, and development opportunities, along with a competitive salary and superb benefits package.
Our benefits include: a generous bonus scheme, an attractive pension scheme, private healthcare, colleague discounts, and family-friendly policies such as 26 weeks of maternity and adoption leave, neonatal and fertility leave.
Explore behind the scenes of our stores—warehouses and colleague canteens—via our 360 tour, here.
About you
Whether you have retail experience or come from hospitality, service, travel, or tourism sectors, 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 colleagues work as one team to offer essentials, excellent service, and a lively 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 through industry-leading training programs, supporting career progression from shop floor to store management.
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