Our Trading Managers play an essential role in delivering customer experience across our stores - driving sales, promoting customer loyalty, maintaining high trading standards and smashing commercial targets, whilst working alongside the general manager.Responsibilities Overseeing department operations, maximising profitable sales and growth while creating a unique customer focused environmentTaking the lead in creating a great place to work for everyone in the teamSparking your team's passion for delivering the best customer experience possible by creating a brilliant customer journeyWorking closely with our central support teams, maintaining top notch communication, stock supply and responseEnsuring compliance with health & safety regulations is carried out across all departments, whilst caring for team members and customer welfare at all timesYour proactive thinking and retail management expertise will make the most of every sales opportunityEnsure the store is ready to trade across all departments, ensuring completion of all opening/closing procedures and daily checksAs a member of the management team, you will also have duty manager responsibilities including key holder duties Who we are looking for You'll bring sales expertise with experience of retail operations managementCommercial awareness and understanding of budgets, profitability from driving retail sales and improved ways of workingAbility to identify training needs.
You'll be effectively coaching and training all levels, ensuring our teams are delivering first-class customer experience and safe centre environmentAdaptability.
You'll act quickly and enthusiastically to changing priorities, workload and new regulations or requirementsPositivity managing change.
You'll lead the team through each season with care and motivation to deliver the bestCan demonstrate our values at all times - we're one team, getting better everyday.
We bring a smile.
We live and breathe gardens.
We make it work for our customers.
What we offer Generous annual leave entitlement.
Use your holidays when you want with limited statutory days off requiredTreat yourself with generous uncapped discount across our stores with 50% off in our Restaurants, 25% off in the Garden Centre and 10% off in our food hallsAccess to Wagestream - support your financial wellbeing, with ability to access earnings ahead of pay day, save for future and financial adviceAccess to Retail Trust - seek confidential support, access to a virtual GP, free counselling service and discounted retail rewards with our employee wellbeing platformAccess to Dobbies Academy - continue your development with our eLearning platform and development programmesThriving culture; the Dobbies team are passionate, diverse and committed to making it work for our customers About usAt Dobbies, we're proud to have history dating back to 1865.
Founded by James Dobbie, we're the UK's largest garden centre retailer, with 3,800 colleagues and 77 stores, including six Little Dobbies and a Central Support Office near Edinburgh.Our passion and joy for gardens and plants is what makes us special.
In our stores, we showcase this through own brand and branded products, concession partners and services.
We have something for every season, occasion and style of garden, outside and in.Many of our stores also feature a restaurant or coffee shop, where customers can enjoy refreshments or meals in a relaxed and welcoming environment.At Dobbies, we champion garden living all-year-round and offer a calendar of events and experiences that bring people and communities together.We're committed to being a great place to work.
We're one team and we encourage our colleagues to be the best version of themselves, every day; to share their wins and celebrate success.
Together, we make it work for our customers.