F&F Brand Team Manager - Port Glasgow

As F&F Brand Team 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. Additionally, you will lead a team of dedicated colleagues and manage day-to-day operations.

What is 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 with an additional card to share with family outside your home
• 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.

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 and that your store is always trading legally by coaching the team to use all security tools available
• Managing colleague schedules on F&F 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 operation, managing the stock from backdoor to shopfloor
• Managing and motivating the team to deliver on key metrics to support the operation including RFID routines, availability, delivery schedules and stock routines
• Ensuring F&F is always clean, tidy and well-presented and merchandised to the F&F principles and standards
• Being a brand ambassador - executing commercial strategies and maintaining store displays that consistently align with brand identity
• Delivering practical actions to make improvements where necessary by conducting a daily floor walk outlining the tasks to be completed for the day by the team
• 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
• Completing market research, analysing trends, competitor activity, and consumer behaviour
• Having a commercial mindset, knowing your customers and local community, to advertise and regularly change lead ins to entice customers onto the F&F department
• Curating visual impactful merchandising displays and a welcoming store atmosphere in line with the visual merchandising guidelines
• Building strong relationships with your team, the wider store team and your home and clothing area manager

You will need:

• Great communication skills and the ability to share knowledge, experience and best practices
• A natural and welcoming approach with customers, putting them at the heart of whatever you do
• Energy and resilience to keep momentum going when working in challenging environments
• Decision-making ability for the store, acting quickly based on what is right for customers and colleagues
• Attention to detail and a creative flair, drawing on experience to deliver impeccable visual merchandising standards
• Highly organised with great time management skills, able to prioritise workload and delegate tasks accordingly

Critical skills:

• Clothing experience preferred
• 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

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'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet. 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. In short, we are a place where Everyone's Welcome.