Assistant Store Manager in Horwich

A competitive salary of £38,000 on target earnings.

Commission: Our uncapped commission scheme recognises the hard work and dedication of our superstar dreamers, with peak incentives to help you rack up the rewards.

Discounts: Amazing colleague discount on Dreams products, plus hundreds of brands including restaurants, holidays, and shopping.

Buy-in schemes: You’ll have the opportunity to buy extra holiday, private healthcare, or savings and loans.

Progression: We’ll support your development with the opportunity to progress, whether it’s a bitesize course on our Beducation learning platform or face-to-face training from our L&D team.

Wellbeing: We partner with the Retail Trust to offer a full wellness hub, including a 24-hour helpline, out of hours GP services and access to counselling.

New in 2024 - enhanced maternity & paternity pay.

This role is a vital part of the management team in Middlebrook. You will work closely with the Store Manager to help drive team engagement and maximise all sales opportunities.

With your help and guidance, the store team will ensure every customer finds their perfect bed.

Here’s a taste of what you’ll be doing day-to-day:

• Assisting with the day-to-day management of the store team to increase sales and ensure the highest level of customer satisfaction.
• Playing a key role in creating a positive environment within your store, ensuring you and the team are regularly involved in business initiatives, sharing best practice and having fun.
• In the Store Manager’s absence, you will proactively lead the team to achieve set goals, expectations and targets through effective coaching and training.
• Motivating and inspiring all of our valued dreamers.
• Walking the floor regularly, ensuring store standards are consistently high so every customer has an exceptional experience.

The type of person we’re dreaming of:

• Experience: You’ll be able to demonstrate previous retail or commercial sales experience, preferably with some experience of store and team management.
• Commercially minded: You will be commercially focused and results-driven, with an aptitude for decision making.
• Motivated: You will be highly experienced at working to performance targets, leading by example to identify sales opportunities and achieve results.
• Inspirational: Your strong ability to lead will inspire and motivate your team.
• Communicator: Using your excellent communications skills, you’ll be able to build rapport and establish great relationships with customers and colleagues.
• Customer-focused: Every day, you’ll live our mission by putting our customers at the heart of everything you do.

About Dreams:

At Dreams, we know your bed is the best place in the whole world. But for the hours between precious sleep, we’d like to make work a special place to be too. We’re the UK’s most loved bed retailer, so it’s important our people feel the love as well.

Together we’ve been making bedtimes better since 1985, with no signs of hitting the snooze button. We’re owned by the world’s largest bedding provider, Tempur Sealy, and sell 14,000 mattresses, bases and headboards every single week.

With over 200 stores nationwide, you’ll lead a team of sleep-savvy Bed Experts in a fun and friendly environment where every dreamer makes a difference.

We can’t promise breakfast in bed, but we can promise these:

• Wellbeing that works: It’s central to how we look after each other.
• Perks you can pick: Life looks different for everyone, so we give you options.
• Room to grow: Your career should feel as supportive as one of our mattresses.
• Extra goodies: Every department has its own set of additional perks too.

Every colleague gets free access to the Retail Trust wellness hub, giving you round-the-clock care for both body and mind.

Need to see a GP at 3am? Sorted. Need confidential counselling or expert financial advice? That’s covered too.

You’ll also have access to wellbeing resources, self-care tools, and a helpline whenever you need to talk things through.

Your career should feel like a journey, not a dead end. That’s why we invest in training and development that helps you stretch your skills and reach your next goal.

Where you’ll be working: Dreams Middlebrook, Middlebrook Retail Park, The Linkway, Bolton, BL6 6JA.