Store Manager - Southend-on-sea

This is a permanent position offering 39 hours per week. The position is based in the H&M Southend-on-Sea store. Our Leaders have the ambition to make our people and business grow. As a Store Manager, you are responsible for planning and achieving the sales and profit goals of the store. You lead, coach, and develop the team, promote a safe work environment, and ensure a great customer-first experience.

Key responsibilities:

• Sales & Profit: You lead with a vision to secure the best experience for all our colleagues and customers. You analyse and follow up your Store’s Sales & Profit KPIs and take actions to maximise results. You oversee store operations and ensure best practices are followed in-store and in line with the Area vision.
• People & Teams: You ensure all employee relation responsibilities, legal requirements, and H&M policies are fulfilled. You recruit, train, develop, and manage succession for your Store. You evaluate and manage the performance of your team through dialogues, development plans, and feedback to encourage leadership and support business needs. You ensure health & safety; legal and security issues are being handled in accordance with H&M standards and local legislation.

Qualifications

We are looking for people who have:

• Management experience in a customer-facing environment
• Previous experience of leading and managing teams
• Knowledge and passion for driving goals forward
• A passion for profitability and people
• A Customer-first mindset

Additional Information

Availability 7 days fully flexible, weekends included.

Benefits

We offer all our employees at H&M Group attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET, Afound. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here. In addition to our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment type and countries.

Inclusion & Diversity

H&M is a part of H&M Group. At H&M Group, we’re determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organisation. Our teams should consist of a variety of people that share and combine their knowledge, experience and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, on what we perceive possible and on how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world. Hence all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process. We strive to have a fair and equal process and therefore kindly ask you not to attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that easily can trigger unintentional biases.