Store Manager - Supermarket

Salary: From £50,000Location: Watford Store, Watford, WD17 1PEContract type: PermanentBusiness area: RetailClosing date: 24 March 2025Requisition ID: 294943

Leadership runs through your veins. Retail management is your calling and you’re ambitious, experienced and eager to show us what you’ve got. Sainsbury’s stores are large and complex, the perfect environment in which to stretch your team leadership ability and take ownership of your own career.

This is store management and more. Responsible for the store’s success, you’ll put our customers at the heart of every decision you make, nurturing your store leadership team to deliver great customer experiences and store performance makes this a great opportunity to up-level your managerial know-how with a view to career progression.

What you’ll be doing

Our Store Managers are dedicated to making our customers happy every time they shop with us. If you can empower your team to build an even better retail experience for everyone, then you’re in the right place.

Taking responsibility for P&L, KPIs, safety & risk, and ensuring all in-store departments perform, you’re not afraid to be hands-on, with a visible presence across the store and a dedication to excellence that takes colleagues with you on the mission to delight customers every day.

In this fast-paced environment, challenges and opportunities arise daily. You’re comfortable making key decisions quickly while prioritising customer experience, and you excel at engaging colleagues so that they’re empowered to deliver too. We trust our store managers and with a capable management team behind you, you’ll have a framework of support so you can focus on what you do best.

Who you are

With senior leadership experience in a customer-centric environment, you’re looking for your next big move. You relish the opportunity to overcome a hurdle and thrive on the variety of challenges every day brings.

Put simply, you want more from your career. A broad scope of responsibilities excites you and we can certainly deliver on that: from a vast range of products, food and drink concessions to Sainsbury’s bank travel money bureaux and online delivery departments, you want a range and depth of experience you can’t get elsewhere.

How you’ll progress

If you’re up for it, we’re ready and waiting to develop your skills. Wherever you started your store management journey, we’ll invest in you so you’re confident to represent the Sainsbury’s name.

You’ll be among supportive, friendly colleagues every step of the way. Customers come first and we can only uphold that promise when we do the best by our people. In turn, you’ll build your team up, ensuring every colleague has the same opportunity and support to flourish.

As for where next? Take your enthusiasm for customer service in any direction you choose. With hundreds of Sainsbury’s and Argos stores across the country, each one has its own identity and offers unique development opportunities. If you want it, store management is an excellent primer for a move to Head Office too. Put your trust in us and we’ll give it back to you ten times – we know how to make the most of your potential.

What we’ll give you

You know leading a team and serving thousands of customers every single week is a big responsibility. In reward for your dedication, you’ll have autonomy over your shift patterns. Of course, you’ll need to cover peak periods throughout the week and at the weekend, but there’s plenty of opportunity to match your hours to your life commitments. This flexibility is possible thanks to the management structure in each store, giving you support from incredible colleagues.

Salary will be dependent upon your experience as well as the store size, complexity and location. Alongside this, we also offer a great range of benefits for our store managers, including:

• Private Healthcare – Eligible for single cover and to upgrade annually to family cover.
• 6S ONLY Car allowance – You’re eligible to receive a company car cash benefit.
• 5S ONLY Interest free car loan of up to £10,000.
• An annual bonus scheme based on our, and your, performance.
• Discount card – 10% discount off on your shopping at Sainsbury’s, Argos, Tu and Habitat after four weeks. This increases to 15% discount off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day.
• Free food and hot drinks provided for Colleagues in all our stores.
• Generous holiday entitlement, maternity and paternity leave.
• 6S ONLY Pension – we’ll match 4% of your contributions and if you want to pay more you’ll receive more from us.
• 5S ONLY Pension – we’ll match 4-7.5% of your pension contributions.
• Sainsbury’s share scheme – build up an investment at discounted prices.
• Wellbeing support – access to emotional support, counselling, legal and financial advice.
• Colleague networks – link with like-minded people to help fulfil your potential.
• Cycle to Work scheme – hire a new bike and cycling equipment, whilst saving on tax and NI.
• Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more.

Click ‘apply’ to start your Sainsbury’s journey.

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