Store Manager Designate

What you'll do
Medway Area
At Toolstation, we’re not just interested in what you can bring to us today. We’re also interested in developing your talents, so you can grow with our business and become one of our leaders of tomorrow.
You’llwork across different stores within the region building up valuable experience. You’ll need to be flexible to move to locations where we need themost support and as such you’ll be a true ‘hands on’ team player, building critical management skillsin a field based multi-site role.
Delivering an outstanding customer proposition. This isn’t your average retail role. It’s much more than an average Store Manager job. Of course, you’ll manage the Branch, but you’ll also be serving customers, checking deliveries, picking items from the warehouseand stocking shelves. And it can be hot in the summer and cold in the winter. But if you take real pride in leading and motivating a team to achieve great things, our customers will notice and love us all the more for it.
This is a real development opportunity and you might wish to embark upon a Level 5 apprenticeship and/or undertake our management development courses to refine your skills.
What you’ll do
**Day-to-day**
**Delivering great service.** Ensuring your team provides a great customer experience, delivering sales through service.
**Mucking in.** Helping the team get the job done. Checking and unpacking deliveries, opening and closing the branch, stocking shelves, cleaning the branch and putting orders together.
**Inspiring.**Encouraging a positive mindset, building a culture of feedback, praise and recognition.
**Asking questions and building relationships.** Making sure your team get the development they need, supporting future business growth and succession. Making sure your customers leave the branch with everything that they need for the job.
**Leading.** From the front, coaching, motivating and engaging your team and creating a great place to work where engagement is key.
**Building a fun working environment.** Maintaining our great product availability and high branch standards, while making sure that your branch is somewhere everyone loves coming to work
What you'll bring
**Knowledge.**Be proud of your track record in developing high performing and engaged retail teams.
**Hard work and passion.** Be dedicated to leading a team to deliver sales through superb customer service and amazing results.
**A love of teamwork.** Be happy to muck in and get your hands dirty, and passionate about developing future leaders.
**Customer Focus.** Ensure the customer remains at the heart of everything you do.
**Resilience.**Have relentless determination to achieve results whatever the challenges, coaching your team to deliver.
**Flexibility.**Be flexible and happy to travel to where we need you most within your region.You’ll need a driving licence and the use of a car (exceptLondon). You’ll travel extensively at times and might be expected to work away from homeon occasions.
**Yourself.** Bring your whole self to work and let your true personality shine through.
What you'll get
- **Our policy is to employ the best qualified people and provide equal opportunity for the advancement of employees including promotion and training and not to discriminate against any person because of gender,race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation,religion, belief or disability**_
You’ll find every opportunity to be yourself and to bring your personality and potential to work. Wherever you join us, you’ll also find some of the most secure opportunities in retail and so many more opportunities to take your career in retail wherever youwant - up the ladder, across the business or into another role in the Travis Perkins Group. And because we want to do our best for you, you’ll be supported all the way with training and development - including access to our very own Toolstation Academy programmes.
Plus, you'll receive some of the best benefits in retail. So, as well as 22 days’ holidays + Bank Holidays, company pension scheme and life assurance, we offer a bonus scheme, cycle to work scheme, save and buy as you earn, 20% discounts across all Travis Perkinscompanies, financial education and support, recognition awards and discounts at over 1000 other retailers.
**Toolstation. The story so far.**
**We’re one of Britain’s fastest growing multi-channel retailers of tools, accessories and building supplies and an integral part of Travis Perkins plc. The trade, home improvers and self-builders all trust us to deliver a lot more than tools. Our storeexpansion programme and the size and diversity of our Group, means we always have opportunities for ambitious people who want to grow with us.**
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