Team Manager - Food - Southampton Area in Eastleigh

As a Team Manager in Food, you'll be responsible for leading a team on the shop floor to deliver exceptional availability, 5-star service, and commercial results. This is not a back-office role. It's a frontline leadership position in one of the most competitive retailers in the UK. You'll need to be commercially sharp, operationally resilient, and relentless in your standards.

Whether you're managing stock, coaching your team, or solving problems, you'll move with purpose and lead by example. This is your chance to step into a high-impact role and help shape the future of M&S Food as we push the boundaries in our transformation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead and coach a team to deliver consistently under pressure.
• Set the pace, build capability, and hold the line on standards.
• Work across departments to deliver a seamless customer experience.
• Drive commercial performance by understanding the numbers and translating them into action.
• Support the growth and profitability of the store through the implementation of the retail plan and delivery of KPI measures.
• Role model great customer service and ensure the delivery of a customer-focused service proposition.
• Recruit and develop talent within the customer assistant team.
• Ensure colleagues understand and are motivated to deliver their part.
• Support the store to trade safely and legally, protecting customers, colleagues, and the M&S brand.
• Deliver an inspirational, improved, and consistent visual customer journey instore.

Key accountabilities include:

• Drive profitability and sales through supporting the delivery of the Retail Plan and Store KPIs.
• Support the delivery and embedding of the business transformation plan.
• Deliver great standards and service by setting clear expectations with store colleagues.
• Create a multiskilled team, coaching and training to fully utilise all tools available.
• Seek customer feedback and take action to deliver improvement.
• Use data and insight to improve customer instore experience and drive performance.
• Regularly review individual performance and manage underperformance where required.
• Deliver all line management activities in line with company process and policy.
• Maintain a safe and legal store environment.

Technical skills and experience required:

• Ability to lead a team to deliver excellent customer service and KPIs.
• Good understanding of commercial, visual, operational, and people processes.
• Good working knowledge of VM principles and digital capability.
• Knowledge of legal requirements across their area of accountability.
• Ability to have difficult conversations with effective resolutions.
• Good communicator and listener who inspires and shares knowledge.
• Ability to plan and review across the week and month.
• Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability to change.

Key leadership capabilities include:

• Successfully embed change for lasting commercial impact.
• Address beliefs around resistance to change and support colleagues.
• Take ownership and accountability for the success of the team.
• Spend time coaching colleagues to accelerate performance.
• Recognise high performance and support poor performers to improve.
• Use customer feedback and market trends to guide team work.
• Communicate clearly and openly with colleagues.
• Collaborate proactively with colleagues from across the business.

Everyone's welcome. We are ambitious about the future of retail. We're disrupting, innovating, and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers, and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.