Store Manager - M&S Simply Food

Store Manager

£36,000 per annum - 40 hours per week
Reading Services, M4 motorway, Burghfield, Reading RG30 3UQ

As a Store Manager, you will understand that it is all about people; it’s where we look to create a memorable customer experience. We’ll empower you to treat your restaurant as your own and help shape the winning culture that we are aspiring to achieve.

As a Store Manager, you’ll lead your team in delivering M&S Simply Food’s handy range of high-quality food and exceptional service as we transform the UK’s rest stop experience.

• Annual bonus up to £7,800pa
• Up to 60% colleague discount for you, family, and friends with brands such as Costa Coffee, Pret A Manger, M&S Simply Food, Burger King, Greggs, KFC, WHSmith and more
• Enhanced benefits, including pension, sick pay, maternity, paternity, and life assurance
• Fabulous development opportunities including funded qualifications, leading to the next step in your career being a Site Operations Manager

• Ensure that the M&S unit achieves, as a minimum, the financial targets agreed budget and P&L
• Support and develop your team, ensuring that each colleague feels valued, supported, and able to grow both personally and professionally
• Adhere to and ensure delivery of brand standards
• Maintain overall responsibility for driving consistent high quality customer service and sales
• Lead shifts including opening and closing the unit

• A proven track record in managing and leading teams in a high volume, retail, or catering brand environment
• Experience working to and delivering against budgets, P&L, labour costs and ratios and cost saving initiatives
• Ability to build strong and positive relationships with stakeholders
• Experience motivating and increasing the performance of your team with mentoring, training, and succession planning
• Ability to remain calm under pressure in a pressurised environment

We want to hear from you! Whether you are an assistant general manager or deputy manager aspiring to take your career to the next level, or you may already be a manager within the retail, catering or hospitality sectors such as a restaurant manager, general manager, catering manager or store manager looking for that next challenge.

We offer flexible working arrangements, including full or part time hours, as well as wherever we can compress or a fixed shift pattern to support your work life balance.

Ready to start your journey with us? Apply today!

Please note internally this role is called Department Manager. Annual bonus of up to 20%, final value subject to location and performance.