Total 428 Purchasing / Procurement / Inventory job vacancies in St. David's Cardiff (CWLCD), Havannah Street, CF10 5SD, Cardiff, CF10 5SD

About the Role

We are excited to announce we are opening a new store in Cardiff Garden Centre, Newport Road, St. Mellons, Cardiff. CF3 2WJ and we are looking for an Assistant Store Manager to join the team.

Your inspirational leadership will make our store a great place to work for your team. Somewhere they can be themselves and progress in a rewarding career with a company that always looks to promote talent internally.

You’ll be in competition with sites of outstanding natural beauty, but you’ll nevertheless aim to make visiting our stores a highlight of every customers’ day. That’s a challenge you’ll take on every day by driving standards among your team and setting goals for their ongoing development.

Deputising for the Store Manager when required, you’ll use sales figures as your guide as you help them develop strategies for recruitment and stock management as well as a labour model aligning resource to demand. As you do that, you’ll ready yourself to make the step up to being the manager for real when the time comes.

About You

You’ll be able to win over the team straightaway with your passionate and energetic approach to what you do. An experienced hand in retail management, you’ll know how to get the best out of your team members and assist their development with training that will keep them motivated and always improving.

By looking analytically at performance, you’ll be able to identify ways to make us better at what we do so we can smash KPIs and move forward as a better retailer. You’ll want to get creative and make a real difference with your next career move—at Lakeland we’re ready for you to do exactly that.

About Lakeland

Founded in the early 60s, we're still a family-owned business with the same strong values of quality and customer care now as when we first started. From selling plastic bags for home freezing from the Rayner family garage in Windermere, to over 4000 kitchen and home products today, Lakeland has grown to the extent that we now send out thousands of parcels a day from our Kendal despatch centre, and we have stores nationwide, stretching from Aberdeen to Exeter, with more in the pipeline.

Benefits

There are many benefits to being part of the Lakeland team. Other than being part of a huge and happy working family, our colleagues are rewarded with a competitive salary, discretionary bonus scheme and a group personal pension plan.

There are 29 days’ paid holiday (including bank holidays) and generous discounts on our products. We offer a great retail environment, and the chance to be part of a team who like to work and socialise together.

Apply now

Job Introduction

Store Location: St Ives (Cambs), 25 Crown St, St Ives, PE27 5AB

Store Hours: 42.5

With a real focus on customer experience and colleague development, our Store Managers are key to driving the success of our stores. As a store manager, you will be responsible for delivering commercial growth and developing a team culture of putting the customer at the heart of everything we do.

Role Responsibility

• You will have overall responsibility for the running of the store, focusing on customer experience, colleague development, and delivering commercial growth in line with our 5-year strategy.
• Putting the customer at the heart of everything we do you will develop a team of colleagues who live and breathe our customer promise and actively seek ways to delight our customers.
• You will coach, train and develop colleagues within your store harnessing their strengths and building on development areas.
• Be proactive in recruiting a team of Assistant Managers, Team Leaders, and Sales Assistants that reflect our values, behaviours with the required skill set to meet our business needs.
• Make commercial decisions around stock availability and merchandising.
• Actively seek contact with key stakeholders to gain a wider understanding of the business
• Providing constructive and beneficial feedback to the store team, District and Regional Managers around store performance and business opportunities to encourage continual growth.

The Ideal Candidate

• You will be as passionate about celebrating our customers’ life moments as we are
• Have previous experience as a store manager within a retail environment working collaboratively with wider stakeholders across the business
• Have experience in leading and developing a team of colleagues
• Be prepared to work towards KPIs in a fast-paced environment

Package Description

About the Company

Card Factory is the UK’s leading specialist retailer of greetings cards, dressings, and gifts with over one thousand stores across the UK and Ireland.  In 2020 we launched our exciting 5-year business strategy including our vision of becoming a true Omni-channel retailer.  This strategy sees significant investment into our colleagues across the business creating multiple opportunities to join a fast-paced environment and be part of our exciting journey. 

In return, we offer a wide range of benefits to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.

Benefits

• Pension
• 15% Card Factory colleague discount in-store and online
• Save As You Earn scheme
• Financial Wellbeing Support
  • Financial Education Tools
  • Salary Advance
• Seasonal incentive schemes
• Retail Management Apprenticeship Programmes with local providers with access to a virtual internal network for learning together
• Discounted gym membership, mobile phone contracts, and car leasing
• Discounts across 100’s of UK retailers
• Employee Assistance Programme – access to tools to support mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption leave

This is an exciting role with genuine prospects for the right candidate. If this role describes you and your career aspirations, click apply now.

For any questions email: vacancies@cardfactory.co.uk (we do not accept CVs/Applications via email)

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once sufficient suitable applications have been received. We advise applying early to avoid disappointment as applications will be reviewed regularly.

No agencies, please.

Sportswift Ltd T/A Card Factory

Age UK is recruiting! We have a fantastic opportunity for a Store Manager to join our friendly and supportive Marshalswick team.

Utilising your previous retail experience and excellent managerial skills, you will manage the day to day running of our store - maximising store sales and profits while ensuring our customers receive an excellent service. In doing so, you will be helping to raise funds for Age UK and the incredible services and support they provide to older people.

As Store Manager, you will manage our brilliant team of staff and volunteers, providing effective leadership, training, and development.

If you are a motivated manager with a passion for retail and would like to use your skills to support a charity that helps thousands of older people across the UK, this may be the role for you!

Due to the nature of this role, you will be required to handle/lift bags of stock (up to 10kgs.)

You will have:

• Experience in a performance driven retail/customer centric environment
• Experience of managing people
• Ability to lift and carry bags of stock up to 10kg's
• Ability to build, retain and develop a team
• Strong drive to achieve results through others
• Ability to delegate, coach and listen
• Ability to manage time under conflicting priorities
• Ability to motivate self and others
• An open and adaptable approach to change and be able to support others through it
• Experience of communicating with a diverse workforce and customer base
• Ability to establish and maintain successful retail processes and merchandising
• IT literacy and numeracy skills

What we offer in return:

• A 35 hour working week
• 25 days holiday + bank holiday allowance
• A generous pension - we will contribute 8%
• Great discounts and rewards through Blue Light Card and BenefitHub
• Life assurance, Bupa health cashback plan
• Tickets for Good - Free and discounted tickets for events

Additional Information

To comply with UK legislation, we cannot accept applications from candidates under the age of 18 as the successful candidate will be required to work on their own in the shop without the aid of other staff.

All CVs will be anonymised by our recruitment system when you apply for a role at Age UK. Please note that our system is unable to anonymise cover letters, and we would therefore ask that to support the work we are doing on making our recruitment selection process fairer and more unbiased, that you remove any personal information from your cover letter/supporting statement, including your name before uploading this. All equalities monitoring information is also anonymised and not shared with the hiring panel. Your name and address will only be known to us once you are invited for an interview.

Is this the job for you? We know that men, of all backgrounds, and men and women from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds are currently under-represented in our workforce, and we want to change this! So, we are particularly keen to hear from applicants from these groups.

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.

Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria under the Disability Confident Scheme. Please note that on occasion, due to high numbers of applications, Age UK reserves the right to limit the overall number of interviews offered, and therefore, it may not always be practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job.

Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.

Your new company
A progressive, vibrant and rapidly growing business based on the outskirts of Bury St Edmunds.
Your new role
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing business as part of a small team and become an integral part of the business. Duties will be varied and include but limited to;

• Warehouse admin, good in and sending back damages goods.
• Financial admin, including reconciliation of invoices.
• Sales admin, sales order processing, creating PO numbers, liaising with key customers and suppliers
• Purchasing admin, ordering stock, stock taking, chasing outstanding orders and updating customers.
• Office admin, answering incoming calls and all other ad hoc administration.

What you'll need to succeed
To succeed in this job you will need high energy, a positive attitude, bundles of self-motivation and have extensive and broad ranging administration experience. This job will require a confident communicator with strong IT skills, including Microsoft Office Suite and XERO. You will need a 'hands on' approach to your work and accept that no 2 days will be the same and that there will be changing priorities over the course of each day.

What you'll get in return
You will be an integral part of an ambitious and growing business, you will work in a relaxed rural environment (including office dogs).

• Competitive salary.
• 100% office based Monday to Friday 9:00 - 17:00.
• Positive and friendly working environment.

What you need to do now


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The Job

• Working as part of a team providing excellent customer service wherever there is interaction with one of our customers
• Customer communication management is utilised to drive Branch sales
• Ensure a working and effective quote bank is maintained
• All sales opportunities and large-scale projects explored to maximise sales and margin
• The contracted hours for this role are 37 or more

What's in it for you?

Here at Selco, we value our colleagues, and you will be entitled to a whole host of benefits when working with us. We offer a wide range of lifestyle perks, including;

• Free health cash plan, making it easy for you and your family to get the healthcare you need and claim back the costs.
• Profit Based bonus scheme, up to £175 per month.
• Discounts and offers at thousands of retailers, cinemas, restaurants, amusement parks and gyms.
• Generous staff discount on all products sold in store.
• Competitive company pension scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Holiday Buying.
• Free life assurance.
• Share save scheme.

At Selco, the opportunities for professional growth and development are limitless. We actively support and encourage internal advancements through a fully developed and supported career path, with plenty of training opportunities along the way to help you develop the career path you want.

About Us

Fancy developing your career with the UK's fastest growing builders' merchants? We're on the lookout for enthusiastic and ambitious individuals with a 'can do' attitude to help us serve the nation's tradespeople.

We won't pretend it's not hard work and at times a challenging environment however you'll be working with some great people and in return we offer a first-class rewards package.

We're growing year-on-year with no signs of slowing down. With new branches opening their doors nationwide, this is your chance to be a part of our exciting journey and build your career with Selco.

We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a work environment that is diverse, inclusive and welcoming to all. Our aim is for Selco colleagues to be a true representation of all sections of society. We are committed to the Health and Safety of our Colleagues being our top priority.

Job Title: Store Manager

Location: St Ives 2

Salary: £23,985

Weekly Hours: 37.5

Reference: YMC1013857

Are you an experienced retailer?

Why not try a new type of retailing where you get to run your own store, inspiring a team of paid staff and volunteers to be proud of everything you achieve together at the heart of your local community and raise money for an amazing charity? If so we have a fantastic opportunity at our St Ives 2 store.

Operating within a fast paced environment, you will work effectively and efficiently to maximise income from sales, gift aid, and other promotional activities plus drive donations from the local area. Delivering a great store offer and standards, inspiring your team to give amazing customer service, you will raise funds for and promote the work of YMCA within the local community.

You will have exceptional organisational skills, creative flair and drive which, along with your commercial awareness, will enable you to motivate, develop and inspire your team of paid staff and volunteers. You will be looking for an opportunity to work in an environment that has challenge, excitement and meaning. This role is varied and no two days are the same.

Why join YMCA England & Wales?

We’ll give you real autonomy in a role that is varied and stimulating and the opportunity for you to use your entrepreneurial skills to raise money and represent YMCA in your area.

You’ll also get a package that includes:

• Pension
• 28 days annual leave including bank holidays (pro rata for part time staff)
• Regular salary reviews
• Sick pay (after a qualifying period)
• Services to support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing, including an Employee Assistance Programme
• Health shield cash plan

This is an exciting time to join us as we embark on a journey of expansion. We are opening many new stores across England and Wales, Our Charity Shops are unique and offer a wide range of donated products. We are passionate about recycling and pride ourselves in selling over 95% of our donated stock and we don’t sell new goods! If successful, You will be joining an amazing team and receive support and guidance from your Area Manager, Regional Manager, other Store Managers and the wider Retail team at Head Office.

At YMCA England & Wales, we strive to create a workplace that fully reflects and serves its local community. We want all staff to feel empowered to bring their full, authentic self to work each day. We have diverse teams, we encourage everyone to do their best and support them to reach their full potential.

If you are passionate about improving young lives, this will be the role for you.

Safer recruitment is important to us and the successful applicant will be asked to provide two references. They will also be required to complete a safeguarding self-declaration and undertake a DBS check.

For further information on YMCA, visit www.ymca.org.uk/about.

About the Role

We are excited to announce we are opening a new store in Cardiff Garden Centre C73 2WJ and we are looking for an Assistant Store Manager to join the team

37 Hours per week Permanent Role

£13.57 per hour (circa £26,000pa)

Your inspirational leadership will make our store a great place to work for your team. Somewhere they can be themselves and progress in a rewarding career with a company that always looks to promote talent internally.

You’ll be in competition with sites of outstanding natural beauty, but you’ll nevertheless aim to make visiting our stores a highlight of every customers’ day. That’s a challenge you’ll take on every day by driving standards among your team and setting goals for their ongoing development.

Deputising for the Store Manager when required, you’ll use sales figures as your guide as you help them develop strategies for recruitment and stock management as well as a labour model aligning resource to demand. As you do that, you’ll ready yourself to make the step up to being the manager for real when the time comes.

About You

You’ll be able to win over the team straightaway with your passionate and energetic approach to what you do. An experienced hand in retail management, you’ll know how to get the best out of your team members and assist their development with training that will keep them motivated and always improving.

By looking analytically at performance, you’ll be able to identify ways to make us better at what we do so we can smash KPIs and move forward as a better retailer. You’ll want to get creative and make a real difference with your next career move—at Lakeland we’re ready for you to do exactly that.

About Lakeland

Founded in the early 60s, we're still a family-owned business with the same strong values of quality and customer care now as when we first started. From selling plastic bags for home freezing from the Rayner family garage in Windermere, to over 4000 kitchen and home products today, Lakeland has grown to the extent that we now send out thousands of parcels a day from our Kendal despatch centre, and we have stores nationwide, stretching from Aberdeen to Exeter, with more in the pipeline.

Benefits

There are many benefits to being part of the Lakeland team. Other than being part of a huge and happy working family, our colleagues are rewarded with a competitive salary, discretionary bonus scheme and a group personal pension plan.

There are 29 days’ paid holiday (including bank holidays) and generous discounts on our products. We offer a great retail environment, and the chance to be part of a team who like to work and socialise together.

Apply now

Are you looking for an immediate start with weekly pay and want to kickstart that career pathway in logistics?

Are you looking to work for a company that puts their people and engagement at the heart of everything they do?

Challenge-trg is currently working in partnership with the Co-op and we have Warehouse Operative positions available in Lea Green, St. Helens, WA9 5AU.

Shifts and pay as a Warehouse Operative:
Values change during the Afternoon shift:

Mon - Fri | 14:00 - 18:00 | £10.55 p/h
Mon - Fri | 18:00 - 22:00 | £12.66 p/h

Total Monday to Friday: £92.84/day

Saturday | 14:00 - 18:00 | £14.77 p/h
Saturday | 18:00 - 22:00 | £16.88 p/h

Total Saturday: £126.60/day

Sunday | 14:00 - 18:00 | £15.09 p/h
Sunday | 18:00 - 22:00 | £17.20 p/h

Total Sunday: £129.16/day

Overtime (hours worked over 40h): £15.83/hour

Total values of possible rotas:

• Mon - Fri: £464.20 (EVERYONE works at least one weekend day from the 3rd working week onwards)
• 4 weekdays + Saturday: £497.96
• 4 weekdays + Sunday: £500.52
• 3 weekdays + Sat & Sun: £534.28
• Values above refer to 8h/day shifts

The role is 5 days out of 7 and does include some weekend work. This is a permanent afternoon shift role.

Duties include:

• Picking and packing orders on a LLOP truck using a voice pick system
• This may include some de-kit work (disposal of rubbish returned to us from Coop stores, and disassembling cages)
• Working in the chill chamber of the warehouse (between 2 and 5 degrees)
• Adhering to health and safety regulations

Benefits as a Warehouse Operative:

• Paid breaks
• Subsided Hot Food Canteen
• On-site Gym
• Weekly engagement competitions
• Outside / Inside breakout areas
• Temp to Perm opportunities after 12 weeks
• Free Parking

You must also be able to pass a drug and alcohol test in order to apply for this role.

We're a Flexible Pay Employer that offers Wagestream. The money management app lets you choose when to get paid, put money aside each month, get discounts on your shopping, check your benefits entitlement and much more.

Challenge-trg Recruitment has also partnered up with the Company Shop, which will enable our staff and colleagues the opportunity to access their membership scheme free of charge. You can gain access to discounted food at up to 70% off the recommended retail price.

Challenge-trg Recruitment (part of the Challenge-trg Group) is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We don't just embrace change, we welcome it. We celebrate equality and diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) in all our employment practices to all employees, temporary workers, and applicants for employment without regard to age, gender reassignment, married or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity leave, disability, race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

Our EEO practices are upheld in every location that we operate in and in all aspects of the employment relationship, including hiring, recruiting, placement, transfer, promotion, compensation, layoff/redundancy, discipline and grievance, termination, training, and leaves of absence.

Apply now for immediate consideration as a Warehouse Operative!

Challenge-trg Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy

Trust Fund

• SPMF, FSC Comcare Fund and others held in trust fund
• To request of fund and reimbursement (e.g. ensure balances reported are reconcile and submission of report)

Procurement to Finance

• Evaluation of Quotation (EQ)
• Submission of certify invoice by centre head with service report/delivery order
• Programme Cash Advancement
• Staff Reimbursement Via Payroll
• Monitor Staff Healthcare Benefit
• Depositing of Cash and Cheque, Withdrawal of Cash and Managing Cash / Cheque
• Fixed Asset Tagging and Disposal
• Monitoring, projecting and submission of monthly / quarterly Variance Report
• Yearly Budget for OOE & Capital

Others

• Any other duties assigned (include oversee and cover duties of operational admin during their absence and backup for account duties for other center)

Job Purpose:

Responsible for coordinating all purchases of food and beverage items, office supplies, capital equipment and contract services for Club. (Invite tender for services/goods). To ensure that all purchases are procured cost effectively and in appropriate quantities for required delivery in the approved price range. Responsible for the F&B costs and to ensure that daily and monthly reports on F&B costs are properly prepared on a timely basis.

Job Responsibilities:

1. Ensure that purchasing policies are implemented and observed by all departments.

2. Responsible for the daily operations of the purchasing department involving sourcing, evaluation and procurement of supplies with at least three suppliers for each requisition of new products and services.

3. Taking into account the product quality, product specification, supplier reliability and cost effectiveness, recommend to the requesting department the preferred supplier.

4. Ensure that each purchase order for new products and services is approved by the General Manager before committing to the supplier.

5. Contain and reduce costs through proper negotiation, product standardising, or innovative ways of sourcing.

6. Maintain a database of contracts and supplies information

7. Ensure that products and services received meet the specifications in the purchase orders.

8. Input and update purchase orders into computerised purchasing module. To follow up on outstanding purchase orders to ensure prompt delivery of products and services.

9. Follow up with suppliers on any discrepancies on pricing.

10. Ensure that the F&B stores are properly maintained and adequately stocked.

11. Ensure that stock items in the F&B stores are properly accounted for and stock records are accurately maintained.

12. Ensure that food and beverage costs are properly controlled by reviewing the monthly food and beverage cost percentage for each outlet.

13. Ensure that monthly food and beverage costs reports are promptly prepared and submitted to the Head, Food & Beverage and Head, Finance & Admin for review.

14. Prepare for open or close tenders upon annual review of prices for supply of food & beverage provision and other contract servicing.

15. Supervise the Purchasing Team.

16. Invite and review tender for supply of perishable items and services for other departments on a yearly basis.

17. Support business teams with agreement or contract requests to review existing relationships with strategic suppliers.

18. Ensure all supplier assessment and selection recommendations are reviewed and supported before submission to approval committees.

19. Participate in the monthly stock take exercise.

20. Reconciles the Physical count to the ledger records and does the reconciliation between inter-outlet records and the ledger records.

21. Support cost and quote calculations with considerations and advice to ensure reliable expectations and predictable outcomes.

22. Perform any other duties assigned by the Finance Manager and General Manager.

23. Others:

• Follow the workplace safety and health system, safe work procedures or safety rules implemented at the workplace.
• Not engage in any unsafe or negligent act that may endanger yourself or others working around you.
• Use personal protective equipment provided to you to ensure your safety while working. You must not tamper with or misuse the equipment.