Total 4 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 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

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