Total 13 job vacancies by Lakeland

Quality Assurance Manager

Full time, permanent - 39 hours per week

About The Role

Full Time Permanent 39 Hours

**Hybrid working (Head Office Windermere-currently minimum 3 days per week are office based)**

An exciting opportunity to join our Buying Team as a Quality Assurance Manager based in our Head office, Windermere. This role will ensure that our products sourced by our Buying team meet all the quality, safety ethical, sustainable and compliance benchmarks specified by Lakeland

Job Purpose

It’s an exciting and varied job. You’ll be working with our Buying team to support all aspects of Buying Compliance. This includes assessing our Food products-their ingredients, labelling and compliance. The role also includes ensuring product standards are set high against all ethical, technical, sustainable and social benchmarks, and supporting the team to find the most effective way of achieving this. Horizon Scanning for future legislation changes that may impact our product offering, and supporting an appropriate route forward. Managing and setting a budget for our network of advisors, consultants and third party test houses, as well as providing our key trading standards liaison and managing the QA Administrator.

About you

Essentials

• Food technologist experience
• Graduate level education or equivalent
• Proven experience in Quality Management
• Proven experience of managing a team
• If possible multi-category quality experience including Food, General
• Merchandise, Electricals and Chemicals
• If possible a degree related to Quality Management or alternative recognised Quality / Project Management qualification

Desirables

• Excellent skills in managing workload and prioritising tasks at both a micro and macro level
• Strong verbal communication and team-working skills across the Buying Team and with third parties
• Strong written language skills
• A high level of attention to detail
• Able to not only adapt to change, but embrace it.
• Able to project manage complex projects, and provide a clear road map
• of priorities to move Lakeland forward in this area
• Ability to demonstrate a balance between 100% compliance and a more pragmatic/ risk based approach
• Adaptable in managing new challenges and assigning workload based on likely benefits

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.

About the Role

Permanent - 37 hours

£13.57 per hour (circa 26,000pa)

As an assistant store manager in our retail stores you will support the store manager in leading and managing an engaged team of colleagues

You will coach, develop and inspire the store team to deliver extraordinary customer service and realise their full potential. You will work with the store manager to drive standards, build capability and accountability and create a great place to work. You will lead by example and exhibit the Lakeland essence, values and behaviours. You will be passionate about our products and delivering best in class customer service.

About You

You will need;

Previous experience in an assistant managers role, or similar, and to be able to deputise for the store manager in their absence.

Strong selling and customer service skills

Great communication and interpersonal skills

An understanding of KPI’s and an ability to drive performance

Experience in recruitment and performance reviews

Experience in managing workflow schedules

An ability to manage, organise and motivate your colleagues on a day to day basis

An ability to train others and engage them in all aspects of being part of a busy store team

An ability to encourage and coach your colleagues to achieve their own potential

Existing knowledge of Lakeland and our products

A positive attitude to change and development

Intermediate IT skills (eg word and excel)

About Lakeland

We want to be celebrated for bringing excitement, innovation and fun to people’s homes and lives. We do this through our extraordinary products sold with devotion and flair.

Benefits

Benefits include: 20% Company Discount – Pensions Scheme opportunities – Company Uniform

Training during the first few weeks will involve some training in other Lakeland stores, which will involve some travel.

What will your job look like?

Working in a multi-channel warehouse means there’s a great variety of activity. Depending on priorities of the day, you could be doing anything from:

• Getting in your daily steps picking customer orders or filling up our shelves when they run low.

• Packing and loading orders onto trailers, so they can be delivered to our customers and stores.

• Processing returns, ensuring our customers receive extraordinary service from start to finish.

• And if you like the look of our forklifts and picking trucks, we can talk to you about training opportunities in this area too.

What's in it for you?

As part of a huge and happy working family, our colleagues are rewarded with a competitive salary, 29 days paid holiday inclusive of bank holidays (pro-rata for fixed-term contracts) and a group personal pension plan. You’ll be joining a company that truly values its employees in a friendly and welcoming working environment.

We also offer colleagues:

• Free onsite parking

• Canteen areas with vending machines, TV and pool table

• Free tea, coffee and juice on shift

• Regular events such as charity sales and Breakfast with the Board

• Occasional treats such as bacon buns, cakes and ice-cream

• Generous discounts on Lakeland products and Discount Scheme provided by Retail Trust

• An Employee Wellbeing programme

• Access to our group personal pension plan if you wish to join

A little about us:

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 sent 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...

Warehouse Operative

Salary: £11.65 per hour

Contract 1: 37 Hours per Week (Fixed Term until 29th December 2024)

Contract 2: 23.75 Hours per Week (Fixed Term until 29th December 2024)

Contract 3: 22.5 Hours per Week (Fixed Term until 29th December 2024)

It’s an exciting time to be joining the Lakeland family – it may be Summer, but we’re already making our lists and checking them twice, as we focus on preparing for the festive period!

We’re recruiting for Warehouse Operatives across a variety of shift patterns this year.

With a variety of shifts available, you can choose a working pattern that suits your needs:

Full-Time - 37 Hours per Week:

4 Week Rota Pattern (enjoy three out of four weekends off)

4 Day Week (enjoy three consecutive days off including Saturdays)

Weekday Lates (enjoy weekends off and late starts)

Part-Time - 23.75 Hours per Week:

School Hours (work around childcare commitments)

Part-Time – 22.5 Hours per Week:

Part-Time Days (no weekend working)

Early Bird (finish work before lunchtime)

What are we looking for?

If you have warehouse experience, that’s great! But it’s not necessary – we’ll provide a full induction and all the training you need. Forklift experience is desirable, but not a must, as we are prepared to give training to those who are interested. We're looking for enthusiastic and hard-working people to join the Lakeland family and help inspire magic in the home.

What’s important is that you’re bursting with energy and have the kind of positive can-do approach to work that’ll help you fit right in - all we ask for in return is the sprinkle of enthusiasm, dollop of dedication, and attention to detail required to get the job done safely and efficiently.

About the role

Permanent 39 hours per week

£25,000.00 per annum

Hybrid role - working from home and a requirement to be in the office at Windermere on at least 1 day per week, but there may be other days.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our busy Finance Team in our Windermere Head Office. In this role you will facilitate the smooth and efficient running of the company's purchase ledgers, and ensure suppliers are paid correctly and in a timely manner. You'll also play a key role in processing invoices, credit notes and debit notes, reconciling statements, and you will enjoy liaising with other departments to ensure documents are approved on a timely basis.

About you

You will have excellent numeracy skills and an understanding of accounting principles and how to apply them. You will have an open and flexible way of working, with an openness to change.

Previous experience within an Accounts Payable function is desirable but not essential.

You will have effective time management skills, and good experience of using PC's and IT systems, including Excel

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, 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.

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...

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

About the Role

Lakeland are currently recruiting for an Assistant Store Manager for our upcoming new store in Market Harborough, LE16 7NJ.

Permanent - 37 hours

£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

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

About the Role

Permanent 37 Hours per week

(Will include working weekends on a rota basis)

£13.57 per hour-18yr and over

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

About the Role

Permanent 37 Hours per week

(Will include working weekends on a rota basis)

£13.57 per hour-18yr and over

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

About the Role

Lakeland are currently recruiting for an Assistant Store Manager for our upcoming new store in Cardiff Garden Centre C73 2WJ.

*Store opening subject to contract

Permanent - 37 hours

£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 Us

We want to be celebrated for bringing excitement, innovation and fun to people’s homes and lives. We do this through our extraordinary products sold with devotion and flair.

Training during the first few weeks will involve some training in other Lakeland stores, which are around an hours travel away

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

About the Role

Lakeland are currently recruiting now for a Store Manager for our new upcoming store in Cardiff Garden Centre, C73 2WJ.

* Store opening subject to contract

Permanent - 39 hours

As a Retail Store manager, you are accountable for the overall store operation. You will drive store sales and profitability and deliver high operational store standards through motivating and coaching your team. You will lead your team to deliver operational processes and customer service excellence, exceeding the expectations of our customers. You will lead by example and follow the Lakeland Essence, Values and Behaviours and you’ll be passionate and knowledgeable about our products, leading your team to sell them with devotion and flair.

About You

You will need

• Previous experience as a retail manager, with strong selling and customer service skills
• Experience of managing store profitability and KPIs
• Strong planning and organisational skills
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• To be able to manage, organise and motivate team members on a day to day basis
• To be able to take ownership and make decisions
• The ability to comprehend and analyse sales figures
• Recruitment/interviewing experience
• Intermediate IT skills (e.g. word and excel)
• Previous experience of training others
• Existing knowledge of Lakeland and our products
• Experience of change management
• Experience in selling through service
• Team coaching skills

About us

We want to be celebrated for bringing excitement, innovation and fun to people’s homes and lives. We do this through our extraordinary products sold with devotion and flair.

Benefits include: 20% Company Discount – Pensions Scheme opportunities – Company Uniform.

Training will include some time spent away from home while you train in other Lakeland stores within the UK.

About the Role

Are you looking for a hospitality role with flexibility and convenient hours which don’t impact your evenings? The Lakeland First Floor Café based in Windermere is looking to recruit a Sous Chef to join our friendly team at an exciting time for the café, which is now part of the wider Lakeland business.

As a Senior Sous Chef you have an important role in running our kitchen, working alongside the Chef Manager, deputising in their absence and ensuring all junior chef colleagues follow the set food specification.

In addition, you will ensure the preparation of food and general upkeep of the kitchen is always to the highest of standards.

Hours – Full Time – 39 HRS a week

Shifts – your 39hrs will be completed during the hours of 0700 and 1700 – including some weekends, but no evenings

About You

Experience in a similar role is vital, and as you would expect the ability to manage and organise multiple tasks and people is essential in this busy role.

The ideal person would have loads of enthusiasm, a fun personality and be a great team player.

About Us

We want to be celebrated for bringing excitement, innovation and fun to peoples homes and lives. We do this through our extraordinary products that are sold with devotion and flair.

On a practical level we are based in Windermere within walking distance of the bus and train station, as well as having free parking on site.

Lakeland is a business that really cares about our colleagues, so there are all the benefits of being a Lakeland colleague, including 28 days holiday (Full Time) including Bank Holidays, matching pension contributions, employee assistance programme, 20% staff discount and discounted gym membership.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a friendly team and a famous Lake District business, so please get in touch to discuss in more detail.

Assistant Merchandiser

Full time

Permanent

Hybrid working (Head Office Windermere – minimum 2 days per week)

The Role

It’s an exciting and varied job and a real opportunity to start a career in Merchandising. You’ll support the Junior Merchandiser and Category Merchandiser, analysing trading data, trends and departmental performance and you’ll play a key role in making sure we have the right stock in the right place at the right times. Responsible for multi-channel stock management you’ll manage a large portfolio of products sourced from circa 200 suppliers worldwide, across all our channels – our retail stores, lakeland.co.uk, Amazon, Next and our international franchise partners. You’ll work with colleagues across Lakeland and play your part in delivering our sales, margin and stock targets.

About You

You’ll be comfortable with IT and have good excel skills, with good numerical and analytical skills and a great attention to detail that will help you mange stock and identify trends. Educated to A-level standard (or equivalent qualification or professional experience) this role would be perfect for someone who has studied maths, business or economics and looking for an opportunity to begin their career in business. Able to think on your feet and manage your own workload and meet deadlines, you’ll enjoy working in a fact paced environment where there is always lots going on. You’ll be happy working independently whilst also enjoying being part of a team, sharing information, knowledge & experience freely and building and maintaining positive relationships. Your communication is key – you’ll be clear and you’ll make sure your message is understood. You’ll also know when to escalate issues, always focused on achieving the best outcomes for our customers.

About Lakeland

From humble beginnings as a tight-knit family operation, we’ve grown into a prestigious kitchenware retailer with 63 stores nationally, from Aberdeen to Truro. We’ve done that by always staying ahead of the pack and looking at things in our own way. When the home freezing boom happened in the 70s, we anticipated a kitchenware revolution. Now, we’re investing millions to ensure that our online offering is top notch, and that our retail stores can offer an experience worthy of a visit. That innovative spirit coupled with our intense customer focus has been the story of our success – work with us and it could be yours too.

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