Store Manager - Wigan

Location - The Co-operative Food, 14-16 Warrington Road, Wigan, WN2 5JA

Salary - £32,500 - £38,500 per annum plus great benefits

Contract - Permanent

We’re looking for a skilled Store Manager to join our retail team. This full-time Store Manager role comes with a competitive salary and brilliant benefits package. As a Store Manager, you will help to deliver the store purpose by guiding the commercial and community strategies in your store. You will also lead your team and show them how to make shopping at Co-op a fantastic experience, helping them to grow and learn so they can show our customers, colleagues, and members the difference Co-op brings to local communities.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Empower your team to deliver great service, personally promoting the Co-op difference to customers and members.
• Build an inclusive culture where everyone can speak up and share their views.
• Develop your team through regular performance conversations to help them reach their potential.
• Ensure the store is safe, legal, and operational.
• Manage and optimise your store’s commercial performance, recruit new team members, and manage HR processes.

You’ll need experience in guiding and developing a team and working in a busy, service-focused environment. Good communication skills are essential, and you should be able to coach, motivate, and inspire your team. You’ll also need:

• Resilience and great problem-solving skills.
• The ability to understand and analyse commercial information.
• A willingness to roll up your sleeves and support the team with the delivery of store activities.

In return for your passion and commitment, you’ll get a competitive salary and a great benefits package which includes an annual bonus (based on personal and business performance), 36 days holiday including bank holidays (rising with service), and 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores all year-round. You’ll also get:

• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions.
• Wagestream app – giving access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Coaching and training to support your career development.

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities. We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We are also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we will always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job. If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process. You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-wellbeing.

As part of the application process for this job, you will need to complete two online assessments. It will take around 20 minutes to complete these tests.