Assistant Store Manager - HARIBO West Midlands

Description:

Role: Assistant Store Manager

Location: HARIBO West Midlands

Working hours: 32 hours (flexible working and travel to other stores may be required)

Salary: Competitive

Position type: Fixed term contract (until December 2027)

Welcome to HARIBO, Europe's largest and most successful sugar-confectionery brand! Our mission is to bring happiness to kids and grown-ups and we're looking for someone talented to join our Retail team at our West Midlands store to help us achieve this.

We are looking for an ‘Assistant Store Manager’ to come and join our West Midlands store… this could be a sweet new opportunity for you! We are looking for a leader with Tangfastic experience of developing a team to deliver fantastic service standards as well as involvement leading and developing a high-volume sales operation, do you have what it takes?

How you’ll contribute to the mix:

This is a fantastic opportunity to add a sugar rush to your career and delve hand first into a career at HARIBO…

Shop floor leadership:

Taking full ownership of the shop floor environment; ensuring it is engaging, organised and commercially effective

Demonstrating hands on leadership and strong personal standards

Promotional and commercial execution:

Owning and delivering all in-store promotional activity in line with our high HARIBO standards

Ensuirng promotions are clearly communicated, impactful and executed whilst also monitoring performance

Activity planning and pricing:

Taking ownership of the store activity planner and collaborating with the Store Manager to align activity with the wider business goals

Managing and overseeing all price changes and maintaining high standards of pricing compliance

Visual merchandising:

Leading and taking an experimental approach to all aspects of shop floor merchandising

Customer experience:

Championing exceptional customer service in line with mystery shop standards and driving a strong focus on the end-to-end customer journey

Team leadership and development:

Coaching and supporting team members to improve performance and confidence

Providing regular and real-time feedback

Standards and operational excellence:

Maintaining high standards of cleanliness, organisation and stock presentation

Communication:

Acting as a key communication link between the Store Manager and the team and ensuring clarity and consistency in messaging

Accountability and ownership:

Taking responsibility for delivering results on the shop floor and proactively identifying opportunities for improvement

Taking responsibility for the store in the absence of the Store Manager

Ensuing all operational, administrative and compliance tasks are completed to a high standard

Can you provide our essential ingredients?

We are on the hunt for a well-established Assistant Store Manager to come and join our team, do you have experience of working within a fast paced- high volume environment just like our West Midlands store? If so, we would love to hear from you!

To enable sweet success, we are looking for an individual with excellent organisation abilities as well as a continuous improvement attitude to really drive the success of our store. This could be your opportunity to make a sugary wave within our fantastic Retail space.

You’ve guessed it interpersonal skills are also a must, we are looking for a confident communicator when it comes to interacting with a variety of different stakeholders. We are also looking for someone with impressive people management skills who deeply cares about supporting and developing the team around them. This could be your opportunity to join our impressive high performing team!

We are also looking for someone with a valid UK driving licence.

The extra sweet stuff:

36 days (including bank holidays)

Marketing leading life assurance

6% pension (matched by HARIBO)

20% discount in our stores

A supportive and dynamic induction period

If our sweet insights in this role have got you raving developing your career within HARIBO, why not apply today to join the mix