About the Role
As a Section Leader, you’ll be the first point of contact for your team!
You will ensure colleagues are always available to maintain product availability, meet and deliver the expectations of our members by ensuring colleagues are in the right place at the right time to delivering impeccable store standards.
In addition, you will support continuous training, developing and coaching of our colleagues through a detailed training programme, whilst keeping them fully up to date with relevant business updates through daily team huddles.
About Us:
Company Shop Group is the UK’s leading redistributor of surplus food and household products. We work with some of the biggest names in the manufacturing and retail sectors to reduce waste and deliver sustainable solutions that benefit businesses, communities, and the environment. Our mission is to unlock the full potential of surplus stock, turning what might have been waste into opportunities for our partners and savings for our members.
Operational
- You will support the Store Manager in delivering an exceptional section/department, by leading and motivating colleagues to deliver the day to day operation within your area of responsibility
- Deliver high store standards and operational statutory compliance across the department ensuring delivery of exceptional member experience and service, quality and product availability
- Ensure that all policies, procedures and legal obligations are followed as specified by Company Shop Group
- Responsible for your area of the stores operation and maintaining the department to an exceptional standard
- Plan and lead the daily huddles for your team, that encourage contributions towards sales and product availability
- Assist the Store Manager to achieve sales budgets, KPI’s, departmental rotas, provide feedback and input on maximising sale opportunities
- Analyse departmental data to identify opportunities and risk and use this to develop a plan of action for your department
- Assess costs for all activities and always look for ways to simplify and improve current processes
- Any other reasonable management instruction
- To act and deputise for other Section Leaders and the Store Manager as and when required
- Ensure that all Health, Safety & Environmental policies and practices are upheld, whilst proactively encouraging your team to promote a culture of good HSE practice
- Continuously review waste within your department and seek solutions to reduce wastage where possible
- Engage your colleagues both within your department and within other departments to support cross functional and positive working relationships
- Employ a supportive and high performing culture with consistent delivery, through excellent leadership and motivation, that fully utilises and develops colleagues’ skills and capabilities
- Lead and develop colleagues to deliver performance against plan and ensure they deliver the tasks they are accountable for
- Communicate and drives relevant KPI’s to team members, ensuring that all colleagues are motivated and encouraged to work effectively and efficiently
- Ensure that all members of your team adhere to all Company Shop Group policies and procedures
- Active promote and encourage the reporting of any near misses and accidents
- Support, develop, coach and guide all members of your team through the use of development and succession planning
- Keep up to date with information relevant to your department and cascade this accordingly to your team
Members
- Create an engaging department where colleagues are trusted by our members and are aware that they are at the heart of everything we do
- Listen to our members and utilise any feedback to drive continuing improvement service levels across the department
- Ensure that our colleagues uphold our culture and deliver an expectational member experience
Requirements
- The successful candidate will have experience in coaching, developing and leading teams in a fast paced retail environment.
- You will have the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships, and be flexible and adaptable to support the needs of the business.
- You will lead by example and uphold the Company Shop Group values at all times.
Benefits
What's in it for you:
- Competitive salary with details available upon application
- Free membership to Company Shop for you and 10 x nominees.
- Annual Flu Injections, high street & leisure vouchers, and on-site Parking.
- Subsidized staff Canteen, Free Tea & Coffee, and Free Fruit Friday!
- Employee Assistance Programme – Grocery Aid.
- Eligible for Costco membership, Cycle 2 Work, and UK Fuel card discounts.
- Contributory pension scheme with death in service benefit.
Location: Company Shop, Hawkeswood Road, Southampton SO18 1AB
Salary: £30'236 per annum
Shifts/Hours: 40 hours per week, 5 days out of 7 (rota basis) between the hours of 6am and 10pm Monday to Sunday.
The successful candidates must be flexible, the role will require working evenings, weekends and bank holidays.
