Operations Director

4 weeks ago

Royston, Barnsley, United Kingdom Dobbies Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Operations Manager to join our team at Dobbies. As a key member of our senior management team, you will play a vital role in driving sales, promoting customer loyalty, and maintaining high operational standards across our stores.

Key Responsibilities
  • Oversee store operations to maximise profitable sales and growth
  • Lead the creation of a great place to work for everyone, while allowing team members to develop within Dobbies
  • Spark team passion for delivering the best in-store experience possible by creating a brilliant customer journey and experience
  • Work closely with central support teams to maintain excellent communication and improve business
  • Ensure all health & safety regulations are carried out across the store, while caring for employee and customer welfare
  • Take a lead in ensuring audit controls are in place, maintaining company best practice, and coaching the whole team on good governance
  • Monitor and maintain full stock management process across the store, from goods in to strong visual merchandising
  • Act as deputy to the General Manager in their absence
  • As a member of the senior management team, you will also have duty manager responsibilities, including key holder duties
What We're Looking For
  • You'll bring operations expertise with experience of retail operations management
  • Commercial awareness and understanding of budgets, profitability from driving sales, and improved ways of working
  • A proven ability to manage stock controls and strict adherence to health & safety regulations
  • Ability to identify training needs and effectively coach and train all levels to deliver a first-class customer experience and safe centre environment
  • Adaptability, acting quickly and enthusiastically to changing priorities, workload, and new regulations or requirements
  • Positivity, managing change, and leading the team through each season with care and motivation to deliver the best
  • Can demonstrate our values at all times - we're one team getting better every day, we bring a smile, we live and breathe gardens, and we make it work for our customers
What We Offer
  • Generous annual leave entitlement, use your holidays when you want with limited statutory days off required
  • Treat yourself with generous uncapped discount across our stores, with 50% off in our Restaurants, 25% off in the Garden Centre, and 10% off in our food halls
  • Access to Wagestream, support your financial wellbeing, with the ability to access earnings ahead of pay day, save for the future, and financial advice
  • Access to Retail Trust, seek confidential support, access to a virtual GP, free counselling service, and discounted retail rewards with our employee wellbeing platform
  • Access to Dobbies Academy, continue your development with our eLearning platform and development programmes
  • Thriving culture, the Dobbies team are passionate, diverse, and committed to making it work for our customers
About Us

At Dobbies, we're proud to have a history dating back to 1865. Founded by James Dobbie, we're the UK's largest garden centre retailer, with 3,800 colleagues and 77 stores, including six Little Dobbies, and a Central Support Office near Edinburgh.

Our passion and joy for gardens and plants is what makes us special. In our stores, we showcase this through own brand and branded products, concession partners, and services. We have something for every season, occasion, and style of garden, outside and in.

Many of our stores also feature a restaurant or coffee shop, where customers can enjoy refreshments or meals in a relaxed and welcoming environment.

We champion garden living all-year-round and offer a calendar of events and experiences that bring people and communities together.

We're committed to being a great place to work. We're one team and we encourage our colleagues to be the best version of themselves, every day; to share their wins and celebrate success. Together, we make it work for our customers.

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