Position Overview & Specifications
Our Trading Managers are all about inspiring excellence in their teams and their stores. Together with your Store Manager you will inspire and support all colleagues to create a winning team, helping us to become one of the nation’s top choices for shopping, every day.
You will be responsible for leading the development of our colleagues to motivate them to deliver a great and personalised service to all our customers. You will be a brand ambassador, who is positive and champions change, embracing new ways of working, serving our customers and committed to developing the team to be the best they can be.
You will be a role model for diversity and inclusion, encouraging all colleagues to be themselves at work, be a champion of our values, never missing an opportunity to recognise great performance and cheer on progress.
You’ll have retail management experience and clear leadership ability, with great commercial awareness. You’ll be able to comfortably use technology as part of your role, and use your strong prioritisation and planning skills to deliver targets and meet customer and colleague needs. You’ll need to be an inspirational and engaging communicator, able to deliver feedback, have challenging conversations, and manage performance fairly and consistently.
As the retail world evolves, you’ll embrace change and make things happen at pace. We’ll expect you to champion new technology and ways of working, ensuring your store really performs and serves as a safe, welcoming environment for all.
As part of the Sainsbury’s group, the career possibilities here are unparalleled, meaning that we can help you to drive your development in line with your own aspirations.
What’s in it for you?
Holiday entitlements starting at 24 days per year (increasing with service)
Share save scheme
Annual discretionary bonus
You'll receive a discount card after 12 weeks for you and a second user that gives you 15% off your Sainsbury’s shopping for five days every pay day and 10% off at Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat throughout the year
Company pension scheme
We know that candidates may be put off applying for a job unless they can tick every box. We will always try and offer flexibility around work patterns and are open to discussing your individual needs during the interview. So if you are excited about working with us and think you can do much of what we are looking for but aren’t sure if you are 100% there yet… why not apply and see how it goes?