Assistant Manager

We're looking for a passionate, hands on Assistant Manager to help create the best shopping experience in our brand new store in Interchange Retail Park, Bedford. If you thrive in a fast paced, customer focused environment, love working with toys and enjoy leading a team to success, this could be the perfect role for you.

If you're within a 45 to 60 minute commute and ready to bring passion, enthusiasm, and strong leadership to our team, we'd love to hear from you!

Location: Interchange Retail Park, Bedford

Salary: £30,500plus fantastic benefits

Hours: 42.5 hours per week, working 5 days out of 7 with Sundays on a rota basis

What You'll Be Doing:

• Supporting the Store Manager in driving sales, smashing targets, and keeping shrinkage to a minimum.
• Leading and motivating your team, ensuring they deliver exceptional customer service.
• Keeping the store looking amazing, fully stocked, and ready to delight shoppers.
• Using reports and data to make smart commercial decisions.
• Managing stock, staffing schedules, and store operations like a pro.
• Stepping up to run the store in the Manager's absence

How We'll Reward You:

We appreciate the hard work and dedication of our teams, which is why we offer amazing benefits, including:

• Buy up to 5 extra holiday days a year, ideal for more rest, adventures, or time for you.
• Pension salary sacrifice to help you plan for the future.
• Retail Trust benefits, including a Virtual GP.
• Birthday Leave plus 33 days holiday.
• Life Cover for added peace of mind.
• Generous toy discount.
• Enhanced maternity & paternity pay.
• High Street & leisure discounts
• Salary Sacrifice Cycle purchase scheme.

What We're Looking For:

• At least 12 months of retail supervisory or management experience.
• A people person with strong communication and leadership skills.
• A commercially aware individual who can adapt and react quickly.
• Someone tech savvy-comfortable using Microsoft Office and Teams.
• A positive, can do attitude with a passion for toys and retail

We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date, should we receive sufficient applications for the role, thank you.