Assistant Manager

Assistant Manager – Full Time

Hours:

43 hours across 5 days per week.

Pay: £31,449 – £32,648 per annum.

Benefits: 6 weeks holiday, 15% staff discount, staff benefits package, and more.

• 30 days holiday each year.
• Great training and development opportunities.
• 15% staff discount to use in any of our 300+ shops on a wide range of food and household essentials.
• A smart uniform.
• Free life assurance.
• Workplace pension.
• A staff benefits package which includes a virtual GP as well as discounted services and products such as cinema tickets, gym memberships, days out and travel.

• Work closely with the shop manager to run an efficient shop and provide a great service to our customers.
• Be responsible for the development of your team of retail assistants through coaching, mentoring and providing feedback.
• Be accountable for the shop in the absence of the shop manager and responsible for ensuring that customers are looked after, deliveries are worked quickly and shop routines are completed to maintain a safe, clean and tidy shop.
• Take responsibility for motivating and guiding your team to ensure the control of operational costs including shrinkage, waste and payroll.
• Support the shop manager with recruitment and induction of new team members.

• A friendly, positive, hard‑working approach to work.
• A people person who finds it easy to get on with everyone and is able to build strong working relationships with the people you work with.
• Trustworthiness and reliability, as you will be an important part of a small team.
• Some experience as a manager, team leader or supervisor.
• To complete an Employment Verification check and a Basic DBS check (England/Wales) or Disclosure Scotland check (Scotland) if successful and offered the advertised position. An Employment Verification check will be sent to you via email if hired and confirm your previous employment history against the records held by HMRC. A Basic DBS/Disclosure Scotland check will also be sent to you via email if hired and confirm if you have any previous or unspent convictions.

There are many long‑term opportunities for a career  have excellent training programmes and always look to promote to shop and area manager positions from within. Many people in senior management and central services positions at Farmfoods started their careers in our shops, making this a rewarding career start.

Farmfoods is a family business with ambition. We pride ourselves on offering our customers great value, quality products from clean and tidy shops with the friendliest team in retail. We aim to offer sensational value to customers on a wide range of everyday family‑oriented goods. We back this value with a focus on delivering an old‑fashioned, genuine and friendly customer experience.

Position: ASM

Hours:

43
Days: 5