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Assistant Manager

£22,000 p/a - pro rata if part-time plus Bonus opportunity to earn an additional £100 per week (£5,200p/a)

Full / part time / job share, up to 40 hours per week

Various shifts available

We have an exciting opportunity for you, we are looking for a SPAR Store Assistant Manager who is motivated, friendly, hands-on and very excited about being an important part of a small team, learning whilst working to ensure our SPAR store offers excellent service and standards to our customers. We can offer you the training and development you need.

A.F. Blakemore & Son Ltd is the 60th largest privately owned company in the UK. This forward thinking family-owned business began life in 1917 as a counter-service grocery store, and has grown from these humble beginnings into a company that now owns over 260 SPAR Convenience Stores and employs more than 7,200 people with a turnover in excess of £1 billion. As one of the largest convenience retailers in the UK, we are always looking for innovative ways to create a point of difference. Our stores offer a wide range of food-to-go options, including; Food To Go and Daily Deli as well as a number of franchise partners to increase the choice available to customers such as Subway & Greggs.

Key Tasks/Responsibilities:

• To deliver customer service in line with SPARkling Service standards
• To be fully aware of KRA’s and assist in working to deliver and improve them.
• To generate ideas for driving the business and it’s team forward
• To assist in monitoring competitor activity
• To assist in developing a motivated and empowered team through a positive management style
• To assist in ensuring training is delivered as scheduled
• To use relevant processes and policies to control the security of people, stock and cash
• To ensure compliance with relevant legislation and health and food safety responsibilities as defined in the induction and training

Assistant Store Manager Requirements:

• Previous junior experience at a supervisory or managerial level in a food retail environment (or similar) (essential)
• APLH (Award for Personal License Holder) - must have or be prepared to undertake this qualification
• An understanding of budgets and targets and the ability to work to deliver and improve them (essential
• Basic knowledge of health and food safety and legislative responsibilities of a retail environment and the skill to manage those responsibilities (essential
• Experience of managing a Challenge 25 policy (desirable)

What's in it for you?

• Develop your skills and capability in a highly supportive and multi-diverse culture
• Outstanding Training & Development
• Gain hands-on experience in a high volume, fast paced convenience store
• Generous staff discount
• Proactive promotion of internal candidates
• Paid Breaks
• Free Tea & Coffee

• Excellent benefits package including:
  • Early access to your pay through ‘EarlyPay’
  • 24/7 access to your payslips and Rotas via HR/Payroll portal
  • 10% Staff Discount in our SPAR stores
  • Access to our colleague benefits scheme which offers a wide range of high street retail, holiday & leisure discounts
  • Company Life Insurance worth 1 x Annual Salary and 6 x Annual Salary with Company Pension Scheme
  • Company Pension Scheme
  • NEST pension scheme
  • Extra Holidays - Purchase Scheme
  • Cycle to work - Bicycle purchase scheme
  • Long Service Awards (e.g. 25 years service is £500 in vouchers and extra 4 weeks paid leave)

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