Store Manager, Retail & Store Manager

We're recruiting for a Store Manager in Skipton to lead a retail team, drive sales performance and deliver an outstanding customer experience. This is an exciting opportunity to join a well-established lifestyle retailer offering a competitive salary, bonus potential and genuine opportunities for career progression. If you're commercially minded, passionate about people and enjoy making a difference on the shop floor, we'd love to hear from you.

• Salary up to £31,000, depending on experience
• Bonus potential with OTE of £35,000+
• Generous staff discount
• 33 days' holiday, including bank holidays
• Ongoing training and development
• Genuine career progression opportunities
• Additional employee benefits and wellbeing support

As Store Manager, you'll take ownership of the day-to-day running of the store, leading your team to achieve sales targets, improve performance and create an excellent shopping experience for every customer. You'll combine strong commercial awareness with a hands-on leadership style, ensuring high standards across customer service, visual merchandising, stock management and store operations.

• Leading, motivating and developing a high-performing retail team
• Driving sales, managing KPIs and delivering commercial targets
• Coaching colleagues to improve customer service and maximise sales opportunities
• Managing stock control, deliveries, replenishment and availability
• Maintaining excellent visual merchandising and store presentation
• Recruiting, onboarding and developing team members
• Overseeing daily store operations, compliance and health and safety
• Analysing sales results and implementing action plans to improve performance
• Creating a positive team culture where colleagues feel supported and motivated

We're keen to hear from retail professionals who have the drive, confidence and commercial awareness to lead a successful store. You'll ideally have:

• Experience as a Store Manager, Assistant Manager, Deputy Manager, Branch Manager or Retail Manager
• A track record of delivering sales targets and improving retail performance
• Experience leading, coaching and developing a team
• A strong understanding of retail KPIs and commercial results
• Excellent communication, organisation and problem-solving skills
• A hands-on approach, with a genuine passion for customer service
• The ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced retail environment

Experience in outdoor, sports, fashion or lifestyle retail would be advantageous, but applications from other retail backgrounds are welcome.