Trading Team Manager

Description:

B&Q Designate Trading Team Manager based at Larkfield store with travel to other stores in the area

Every day, we give our millions of customers the ideas, advice, tools, and confidence they need to create a home they’ll love. Join us as a Trading Team Manager and you will be pivotal in driving commercial delivery of the sales floor and coaching colleagues to fulfil B&Q’s ambition to make every customer count.

At B&Q , we’re passionate about progression and we’re committed to growing talent from within. We also recognise the important experience that new leaders add, onboarding several designate managers through the year.

As a B&Q designate manager, you’ll have the unique opportunity to learn about us and our business, typically spend ing 3-6 months working across a cluster of stores (in the Larkfield area). You’ll experience management training in various store formats before being placed into your own department or store.

Due to the nature of this role, there’ll be some flexibility and travel required during your time as a designate, before being placed within a store that matches your experience within 50 miles of where you live.

What's the job?

Role

A great team needs a great leader and your role as a Trading Team Manager is to create a truly inclusive high performing team to deliver an exceptional service for our customers in store. In this role you will:
 

• Drive commercial delivery of the core trading sales floor, leading end-to-end stock management, range change and promotions.
• Conduct regular commercial reviews using sales data, loyalty insights, and customer feedback.
• Support colleagues to build deep product knowledge and meaningful customer interactions to make every customer count
   

What We Need

Our Trading Team Managers are key to running our business by leading the team to deliver effective stock management rituals and routines as well as serving our customers. In this role, you should be leading in a way that demonstrates the following qualities:
 

• Comfortable coaching, to bring out the best in your colleagues
• Lead rather than do
• Passionate about process, you believe it’s the foundation of great availability.
• Well planned and organised.