Store Manager, Retail & Store Manager

About The Role

Join us here at Poundland as a Store Manager and you’ll lead, motivate, and inspire your team to deliver fantastic store standards and amazing service for our customers every day.

You’ll be responsible for the overall performance of the store, driving sales, achieving targets, and making sure everything runs smoothly. From leading your team and developing colleagues, to overseeing operations, stock control, and customer experience, you’ll be at the heart of a busy and fast‑paced retail environment.

Creating a safe, welcoming environment for customers and colleagues will always be your top priority. You’ll lead by example, ensuring store policies and procedures are followed while building a strong, positive team culture where everyone can succeed.

This role calls for a confident and inspiring leader who can motivate a team, make smart commercial decisions, and adapt quickly in a fast‑moving retail environment. Essential retail management experience will help you thrive in this role, alongside strong leadership skills, commercial awareness, and the ability to use data to drive performance and improve results.

• 10% employee discount card with increased discount events over the year.
• Celebrate your birthday, you’ll get an extra day off for your birthday.
• 28 days holiday a year inc banks, rising by one day a year up to 33 days.
• Annual Bonus scheme based on company and store performance.
• We put wellbeing first through our partnership with Retail Trust which gives you and your family access to a fantastic range of resources.
• My Staff Shop, giving you an amazing number of discounts and shopping vouchers.
• For those unexpected moments, our partnership with stream enables you to access up to 50% of your monthly earned wages early, along with savings and financial advice.
• Training and development opportunities, we want you to grow your career with us, be that through one of the qualifications we offer or internal programmes, this role can be just the first step.
• Plus, life assurance, loyalty service awards and people’s pension.

Bring your leadership, commercial mindset, and ability to inspire teams — and you’ll have the opportunity to continue growing your career with Poundland, including progression into Area Manager roles.

We’re committed and proud to our inclusive culture, and that starts with the recruitment and selection process. If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please do share this with us on your application form and we’ll make every effort to meet your needs.