Store Manager

A Homebase for your success

Location: South London Area

Salary: £40,000 – £50,000 + Excellent Benefits

Our aim at Homebase is to help our customers realise their dream home and to help our employees realise their career dreams. We look for excellent team players who can offer the ultimate in customer service, and in return we offer an exciting career, with fantastic opportunities for professional development in a stimulating and friendly work environment.

The Role

As a Store Manager you’ll be critical to our ongoing success – focused on maximising sales, increasing profits and promoting fantastic customer service. You’ll take ownership of your store, creating a shopping experience that will meet and exceed our customers’ expectations. You’ll inspire your team, leading and developing them to achieve ourstanding results through your experience, passion and resilience.

Your relentless customer focus, innovation, and ability to make tough decisions will enable you to thrive in a role that is challenging and demanding – achieving targets for business growth, increased sales, operating standards, and colleague development and performance.

The Person

To succeed in this role you will need a minimum 2 years experience of managing a large team in a fast moving retail environment. You’ll be commercially aware with proven control of overheads and increasing sales, with a strong focus on improving the customer experience. You’ll possess excellent coaching and mentoring skills, inspiring and motivating your team to exceed targets and achieve their full potential.

The Business

We are a leader in home enhancement, and are part of the Home Retail Group, which is the UK’s leading home and general merchandise retailer. With sales of almost £1.5 billion, we offer over 30,000 different products through our 350 stores, and we have over 70 million customers a year.

Our customers want to ‘Make a House a Home’, and we are here to help them do just that – supplying the product ranges they want, and the friendly advice they need. We’re seriously successful and plan to continue our development by opening new stores as well as improving and refurbishing existing ones.

Besides real scope for individuality and excellent career development prospects, Homebase offers highly competitive rewards and benefits, including an immediate 20% discount at Homebase and 10% discount on all Argos products.

What we hope you will do next

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Homebase operates as an equal opportunities employer and we welcome all applications regardless of gender, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, disability, age, political opinions or trade union membership