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Head of Retail
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Job Purpose
Background
GU Heritage is a fast-paced retail business providing bespoke branded clothing, stationery and gifts in our busy University gift shop. Additionally we run the shop which supports the Hunterian Art Gallery where we sell bespoke gifts, exclusive art prints, jewellery and gifts, all of which support the customer gallery experience and exhibitions.
GU Heritage is a wholly owned sub co of the University of Glasgow. The entire retail team are part of the wider Commercial Services Directorate. You will report directly to the Executive Director of Commercial Services, and to the GU Heritage Board of Directors where you will prepare and present quarterly business updates. You will play a key role as part of the cohesive, agile Senior Leadership Team for the Commercial Services directorate.
We have recently expanded into bookselling with the acquisition of our established campus bookshop. This is a new exciting adventure for commercial growth with an existing experienced team of booksellers who run the campus bookshop and the online shop.
We are currently tendering to open a brand-new Food Mini Market with a franchise partner where we will work to fit out and open a food convenience store on our campus. We will recruit a new G U Heritage Food leadership and customer assistant team to run and grow this fantastic retail opportunity.
There are two other main areas of our business. We work with the various departments which are part of our 4 main Colleges which make up the University, helping them with smaller walk-in orders as well as significantly larger orders made up of the ranges we sell. Often, we design and source one off bespoke product ranges for specific department initiatives and University events. We have our own online e-commerce site, which we are continuing to grow with our web developer team who look after our customer order fulfilment with help from the shop team.
This is a great place to work, in a beautiful location, and you will enjoy a supportive, friendly team of colleagues to work with. You will enjoy a unique and diverse customer base who are advocates of what we do, who want us to succeed, and enjoy the part we play in the best possible student, staff and visitor experience.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
What we'd like you to do:
Your role is Head of Retail. You will do this with energy and purpose, enhancing the student and staff experience through sector leading service, providing a great retail offer, and ultimately growing our profit contribution which we give back to the University of Glasgow. You will achieve this by leading and developing a team who feel valued every day and who are proud about what we achieve. You will create efficient resource models and an enabling environment which delivers a robust succession plan.
What we'd like you to be responsible for:
• Frictionless service which enhances and supports our commitment to the best student experience; service our customers come back for.
• Leading and developing a dynamic, agile one-team culture where everyone feels valued.
• Colleague welfare: ensuring that our colleagues feel supported in relation to their physical and mental health and wellbeing at work.
• Commercial growth across all our platforms, delivering profit contribution.
• Innovation through product design, social media, and a team with a digital mindset.
• Securing our future success with effective supplier relationships.
• Effective cost control and management of multiple budgets.
• Efficient and flexible resource modelling,
• Due diligence, food safety.
Who you need to be:
An experienced leader who understands the value of how nurturing relationships with customers and colleagues delivers profit growth and success everyone can share in and be proud about. You thrive on stakeholder engagement, and you gather the advocacy needed to improve commercial viability.
Knowledge, Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Knowledge/ Qualifications
Essential:
A1 Knowledge of leadership within the retail sector.
A2 Knowledge of, and ability to, produce financial budgets and lead on performance of P&L accounts.
A3 Knowledge of developing and presenting business strategies.
Desirable:
B1 A depth of understanding in how to deliver a Food Safety framework.
B2 Knowledge of online and social media platforms.
Skills
Essential:
C1 Customer centric, always making decisions which guarantee the best customer experience.
C2 Someone with a real desire for personal integrity and creating teams who look out for each other.
C3 A great listener with an ability to accept or understand other points of view, or an alternative way.
C4 Genuinely empathetic to what is important for individuals and teams.
C5 A strategic, solutions-based retailer who can lead across multi sites.
C6 Flexible with hours and days to ensure the right outcomes are owned and delivered.
C7 Numerate and good at utilising e-POS and stock management systems, and applications.
C8 You are someone who takes ownership, works with pace and helps everyone understand what is expected of them and the vital role they play in the strategy, and you ensure everyone has fun at work.
C9 The kind of person who remains calm when challenges arise and works with a positive can-do attitude and good humour to resolve issues.
C10 You are fair, consistent, believe in transparency for everyone and instinctively know when to stand by decisions which are about doing the right thing.
Desirable:
D1 An ability to create the right mix of volume sales and margin growth.
Experience
Essential:
E1 Previous retail leadership experience.
E2 An experienced, skilled presenter who can make a compelling case at every audience level.
E3 Proven experience in writing business cases and results presentations.
E4 Experience leading different team dynamics, and different types of retail platforms.
Desirable:
F1 Multi-site leadership experience.
F2 Previous experience in heritage retail and/or a fast-paced multi product retail operation.
F3 Experience in Food Retail.
F4 Experience in product design and development.
F5 Experience working with suppliers.
F6 Experience in growing a retail business.
Terms and Conditions
The salary band for this exciting and diverse role starts at £45,000 and the salary awarded to the successful candidate would be based on level of experience.
This post is full time and open ended (permanent).
G.U. Heritage Retail Ltd (GUHRL)
GUHRL is the University of Glasgow's retail subsidiary company. The GUHRL team runs the University Shop, the Hunterian Shop, the University's Online Shop, and supplies University departments with branded merchandise. We work hard to provide welcoming shops and excellent customer service, as well as a creative and supportive working environment for each other. The Company has a turnover in excess of £1 million annually and all profits are donated to the University. There are currently around 20 Partners in the GUHRL team depending on the time of year. The retail business is part of the wider Commercial Services directorate and sits within University Services, based at the Gilmorehill campus in Glasgow.
As part of the wider Team UofG you will be a member of a world changing, inclusive community, which values ambition, excellence, integrity and curiosity.
As a valued member of our team, you can expect:
1 A warm welcoming and engaging organisational culture, where your talents are developed and nurtured, and success is celebrated and shared.
2 An excellent employment package with generous terms and conditions including 41 days of leave for full time staff, , benefits and discount packages.
3 A flexible approach to working.
4 A commitment to support your including a free 6-month UofG Sport membership for all new staff joining the University.
We believe that we can only reach our full potential through the talents of all. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our values. Applications are particularly welcome from across our communities and in particular people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, and other protected characteristics who are under-represented within the University. Read more on how the University promotes and embeds all aspects of equality and diversity within our community .
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