Retail Fashion Manager - Silverburn Extra in Glasgow

As F&F retail fashion manager, you will ideally have fashion experience including visual merchandising, customer service and team management skills. You will have an eye for detail ensuring your department is upholding to the highest operational standards for our customers. You will be familiar with the fast-paced environment of clothing retail and can deliver results under pressure. You will take a lead role in driving the F&F clothing business forward in your store and be responsible for launching trade events, weekly sales, as well as managing day-to-day operations.

You will be responsible for:

• Recruiting and training the best people for your team, ensuring they have the capability to deliver above and beyond in their role by developing their operational and leadership skills.
• Coaching your team to be passionate and knowledgeable about the products in your store, building its brand and providing customers with the right range, quality and service to ensure they keep coming back.
• Leading your team in the driving of trade activity and using your expertise and knowledge to grow sales and maximise profit.
• Ensuring the safety of your colleagues is your top priority, and you ensure your store is always trading legally by coaching the team to use all security tools available to provide a safer place to work.
• Managing colleague schedules on the F&F clothing department ensuring the right people are in the right place in accordance to our F&F operating model and trade plan, within agreed hours.
• Overseeing the end-to-end F&F clothing operation, managing the stock from back door to shop floor.
• Managing and motivating the team to deliver on key metrics to support the operation including RFID routines, availability, delivery schedules and stock routines.
• Making sure the F&F clothing department is always clean, tidy and well-presented and merchandised to the F&F clothing principles and standards.
• Being an F&F brand ambassador - executing commercial strategies and maintaining store displays that consistently align with brand identity.
• Analysing product performance and sales data to refine visual merchandising strategies and optimise promotional initiatives ensuring profitability is maximised and sales targets are regularly reached, if not overachieved.
• Completing market research, analysing trends, competitor activity, and consumer behaviour (including social media and F&F online).
• Curating visually impactful merchandising displays and a welcoming store atmosphere in line with the visual merchandising guidelines set out in your VM guide.
• Building strong relationships with your team, the wider store team and your home and clothing area manager, including providing feedback and sharing future opportunities.

You will need:

• To be a great communicator who shares knowledge, experience and best practices, understanding the importance of what you do and working collaboratively with your team to deliver results.
• To be natural and welcoming with customers, putting them at the heart of whatever you do.
• To use your energy and resilience to keep momentum going when working in challenging environments.
• To own the decision-making for the store, acting quickly and making decisions based on what is right for customers and colleagues.
• To have energy and drive to deliver beyond expectation.
• To inspire confidence in those around you.
• To be aware of what competitors are doing, with a well-developed commercial mindset.
• To have attention to detail and a creative flair, drawing on experience to deliver impeccable visual merchandising standards.
• To be highly organised and have great time management skills, with the ability to prioritise workload and delegate tasks accordingly.

Critical skills:

• Clothing experience essential.
• Impeccable visual merchandising standards.
• Attention to detail and a creative flair.
• Well-developed commercial mindset.
• Effective leadership with the ability to motivate others.
• Results driven and sales oriented.

What's in it for you?

• Holiday starting at 20 days plus a personal day rising to 22 days after 12 months (plus Bank holidays).
• Request flexible working from day one.
• Get 10% off and 15% at pay day weekends - save up to £2,000 a year with your Colleague Clubcard.
• Access to free wellbeing services with a range of resources to support your mind, body, and life.
• Life cover of five times your pay and an award-winning pension with matching contributions up to 7.5%.
• Benefits to suit you, choose what you use - from discounts and shares to cycle to work schemes.
• Uniform provided and policies to support you for all of life’s moments, big and small.
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds.

About Us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working.