Outdoor Leisure & Christmas Department Manager Rake

Rake Garden Centre

Outdoor Leisure & Christmas Department Manager

40 Hours per week, Full-Time Position, alternate weekends

We pride ourselves in not only giving our customers the very best in product quality and choice but also in providing them with an aspirational shopping experience through creating stunning visual displays. As the ideal candidate, you will be well-presented, physically fit, professional, and friendly with a passion for Outdoor Leisure & Christmas products and great customer service, you will also have a good eye for detail. Our customers are our main priority, so you will be polite and outgoing and someone who always puts the customer first.

As an Outdoor Leisure & Christmas Department Manager, you would be responsible for managing and leading your team in pulling all this vital activity together so that our customers have a truly unique and memorable shopping experience. Your focus will always be on the customer and meeting their expectations, but you will also have responsibility for driving sales and profitability, so you will have a real sense of ownership and empowerment!

Our ideal Outdoor Leisure & Christmas Department Managers will:

• have experience working in a fast-paced retail environment
• have an energetic personality with an ability to easily engage with and connect with our AB1 target customers
• have a creative and entrepreneurial attitude toward retailing
• be able to recognise and act on sales opportunities
• be meticulous to the detail in terms of product placement, standards, presentation, visual elevation, and overall look and feel and have the ability to manage and develop a team
• be able to use reports in order to improve performance
• have the ability to manage stock from entry to exit within the centre
• be an excellent communicator
• be able to use an EPOS system

 

Blue Diamond Group is the 2nd largest Garden Centre Group, with 50 centres throughout the UK and in the Channel Islands, and we are continuously growing. Our centres are widely regarded as some of the best in the country, and we have won many retail and restaurant awards. Our extensive refurbishment programme ensures that our centres and restaurants offer style and innovation in an aspirational environment which encourages loyalty and satisfaction from our customers. We invite you to look at our website and view pictures and videos of recent developments such as East Bridgford and Redfield’s.

 

If you like the sound of a fantastic, fast-growing company with a great heritage and want to make a positive contribution to a business which, in return, helps all employees to maximise their full potential, then we would like to hear from you!