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 almost 500 stores and an online home delivery service.
Our business mainly focuses on food & grocery, and we uniquely source & process most of the fresh food we sell through our own manufacturing facilities.
We’re recruiting a high-performing Trading Manager to help our business grow and succeed.
Ensuring our stores are fully stocked is vital for a fantastic customer experience, making this role crucial 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 ensuring 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 staffing routines, including scheduling, absence management, 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 play 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 benefits package.
Our benefits include: a generous bonus, an attractive pension scheme, private healthcare, and a colleague discount that you can share with friends and family. We also offer family-friendly policies such as 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave, neonatal and fertility leave.
Interested in seeing behind the scenes? Explore our warehouses and colleague canteens via our 360 tour here.
About you
If you have experience in retail, hospitality, the service industry, or travel & tourism, and a passion for 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 and responsiveness 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 experience, we pride ourselves on providing a great shopping experience. With nearly 500 stores across the UK, our team works together to offer essential food items, excellent service, and a lively shopping environment. Our focus on freshness involves preparing more fresh food in-store than any other supermarket, making our work challenging and fast-paced. From Market Street to the checkout, our friendly team goes above and beyond to meet customer needs.
At Morrisons, we invest in our colleagues and industry-leading training programs. Many store managers started on the shop floor, gaining experience and understanding what it takes to support colleagues and serve customers effectively.
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