Total 12 Manager level Purchasing / Procurement / Inventory job vacancies in Inverness, IV1 1QY

Are you passionate about leading a team to deliver outstanding customer service in a fast-paced retail and catering environment?If you thrive in hands-on roles, have a knack for problem-solving, and love empowering a team to exceed expectations, this might be the perfect opportunity for you.

As a Greggs Shop ManageratUWE Bristol, you’ll lead by example, ensuring operational excellence while developing a high-performing team.Your role will be centred around creating an inviting, efficient, and customer-focused shop experience by adhering to Greggs' core values and operational standards.You'll manage a young and enthusiastic team who are eager to learn and develop, and you’ll play a pivotal role in mentoring and scheduling them effectively.The position offers you the chance to lead confidently, inspire resilience, and manage day-to-day operations, including rostering in a way that balances your team members' availability.

Why Join Us?

• Flexible Monday to Friday schedule with occasional weekend shifts (overtime paid)
• Generous holiday break: two weeks off during Christmas
• Career development opportunities to help you grow into management within Sodexo
• Engaging, team-oriented environment where your ideas are valued, and your leadership makes a difference

Bring your catering expertise, customer-focused attitude, and readiness to lead in a role where every day brings new challenges and rewarding achievements. Join us to make a real impact from January 2025!

What you’ll do:

• Deliver a fast and friendly customer service by putting the customer at the centre of all store operations
• Develop a high performing team focused on delivering a fast & friendly customer experience
• Achieve consistently high standards to meet customers’ expectations
• Deliver relevant added-value to customers to increase sales
• Maximise profit through effective cost control

For a full list of responsibilities please view the attached job description

What you bring:

• Proven experience of leading a team within a service environment
• Proven experience of managing operations within a catering service
• Ability to communicate effectively with team members and line manager
• Experience of delivering relevant training, using company guidelines
• Understanding of relevant Health & Safety, Employment and other legislative requirements
• Experience of implementation and adherence to HACCP
• Experience dealing with branded outlets is desirable
• Strong attention to detail and adherence to standards
• Proven IT skills
• Ability to deal with stressful situations with a flexible approach to the role
• Analyse problems, develop opportunities and implement innovative solution

What we offer:

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater.You’ll belong in a company and team that values you for you; you’ll act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions; and you’ll be able to thrive in your own way. In addition, we offer:

• Mental Health Support: Unlimited access to an online platform for mental health and wellbeing.
• Employee Assistance: Access to support for everyday challenges, including legal and financial advice.
• Health & Wellbeing App: Enjoy a free app with rewards for healthy living, plus 24/7 virtual GP access.
• Discounts & Financial Benefits: Exclusive deals through the Sodexo Discounts Scheme, alongside insights and savings via the Salary Finance Platform.
• Retirement Planning: Join the Sodexo Retirement Plan to secure your future.
• Death in Service Benefit: Protection for your loved ones in the event of your passing while employed.
• Career Development: Opportunities for growth through a variety of learning and development tools.
• Cycle to Work Scheme: Promote a healthier lifestyle while helping the environment.
• Volunteering Opportunities: Engage in meaningful community support initiatives.
• Flexible Work Environment: Enjoy a dynamic workplace with competitive compensation.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer.We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Store Manager

At Scotmid Co-operative, we are focused on serving our local communities and improving people’s everyday lives through our different businesses. We’ve been doing this for 160 years, and we will continue to work hard to do this for many more years to come. We’re a co-operative, which means that we are run by our members for the benefit of the local communities that we serve.

Scotmid food’s aim is to be Scotland’s preferred community convenience retailer and a key factor in achieving this is through our people.

Our Store Managers are key to the success of our business by leading, motivating and developing their teams to exceed customer expectations. Regardless of which store you are in, your main focus areas will include driving sales, product availability and developing the team. You could also have an instore bakery offer, hot food and ‘food to go’, or a Post Office offer that gives your store a real point of difference to get behind.

Our perfect candidates will have retail experience at management level, ideally in food - although we would like to hear from anyone who has a real passion for retail and who can demonstrate that they:

· Are a proven people manager

· Have a clear understanding and proven achievement of KPI's

· Have a passion for retail excellence, standards and customer service

· Have the ambition to drive their team and store to a higher level of retailing

· Have the talent to apply performance management and succession planning in store

We are passionate about supporting, challenging and developing people to be the best they can, and we offer a comprehensive induction and training program to quickly get you up to speed with our business.

To ensure that we comply with alcohol licensing legislation applicants must be aged 18 or over and will ideally be eligible to become a Personal Licence Holder, and as you may be positioned within a store with a Post Office, you will be required to successfully complete Post Office Limited’s security and background checking processes.

With excellent benefits, competitive salaries and opportunities for training and development, a Store Manager position with Scotmid is a great way to continue your retail management career.

Store Manager

At Scotmid Co-operative, we are focused on serving our local communities and improving people’s everyday lives through our different businesses. We’ve been doing this for 160 years, and we will continue to work hard to do this for many more years to come. We’re a co-operative, which means that we are run by our members for the benefit of the local communities that we serve.

Scotmid food’s aim is to be Scotland’s preferred community convenience retailer and a key factor in achieving this is through our people.

Our Store Managers are key to the success of our business by leading, motivating and developing their teams to exceed customer expectations. Regardless of which store you are in, your main focus areas will include driving sales, product availability and developing the team. You could also have an instore bakery offer, hot food and ‘food to go’, or a Post Office offer that gives your store a real point of difference to get behind.

Our perfect candidates will have retail experience at management level, ideally in food - although we would like to hear from anyone who has a real passion for retail and who can demonstrate that they:

· Are a proven people manager

· Have a clear understanding and proven achievement of KPI's

· Have a passion for retail excellence, standards and customer service

· Have the ambition to drive their team and store to a higher level of retailing

· Have the talent to apply performance management and succession planning in store

We are passionate about supporting, challenging and developing people to be the best they can, and we offer a comprehensive induction and training program to quickly get you up to speed with our business.

To ensure that we comply with alcohol licensing legislation applicants must be aged 18 or over and will ideally be eligible to become a Personal Licence Holder, and as you may be positioned within a store with a Post Office, you will be required to successfully complete Post Office Limited’s security and background checking processes.

With excellent benefits, competitive salaries and opportunities for training and development, a Store Manager position with Scotmid is a great way to continue your retail management career.

Job Introduction

Store Location: Inverness

Store Hours: 623

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

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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.

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Sportswift Ltd T/A Card Factory

Are you ready for your next Retail adventure? If you have a passion for excellent customer service and love selling clothing within the outdoors industry, then this is the job for you!
We are looking for a Retail Shop Manager to drive forward the quality service we continue to provide here in Inverness on a 12 month fixed term contract.
Who are we looking for?
To fulfil this exciting role, you will possess excellent Retail Management skills, which you will have gained within a retail environment, ideally within the outdoor industry.You will also have the following qualities:

Exceptional customer service skills
Excellent organisational skills
Attention to detail
Effective verbal and written communication skills
Ability to challenge others to improve their performance
Skills to train and delegate effectively
Time Management Skills
Ideally, you will have a passion for outdoor travel adventure.

About the roleThe ideal candidate will use their past experiences to engage the shop team in driving all aspects of the shop performance whilst maintaining our reputation for outstanding quality and customer service.
Main duties of the role consist of:

Reaching and exceeding sales targets through assisting customers in the selection and purchase of merchandise.
Organising and implementing store rotas and covering shifts and holidays thorough effective staff management.
Helping, training and motivating sales staff on selling procedures to help achieve sales goals
Achieving commercial success through organising the store merchandise standards and restocking merchandise.
Nurture a thirst for high levels of product knowledge within an outdoor retailer and a passion for sharing that knowledge.

What’s in it for you?Having been retailing in the UK for over 50 years in the outdoor industry, we are able to offer an excellent pay and benefits package. Plus, all of this:

Structured training sales and management training
Access to in-house e-learning modules
Clothing allowance
50% discount on our clothing
Staff Partnership programme
Contributions to a Pension scheme
Life cover based on salary
Sales bonus scheme
Employee Assistance Scheme

About the companyWe make gear to keep you protected and comfortable in the world’s wildest places. From performance clothing to shoes and luggage we have created a range that is all you need and nothing you don’t. From our original and iconic “bags” to our latest innovations everything is built on the original design principles that were conceived around a kitchen table in North Yorkshire fifty years ago. That is what still make us unique.We just make gear that delights our customers and delivers on our promise.How to applyTo apply for the role of Retail Shop Manager, please click on the Apply button and follow the short application procedure

Here at The Perfume Shop, people are at the heart of everything we do. We are always on the lookout for individuals with Talent, a Passion for what we do and a Spark to help achieve our vision.

The Role

Are you looking to take accountability for a store, and be rewarded for it?

Are you passionate about perfume, and love people?

Do you want to be part of a supportive team, and thrive in a fast-paced environment?

As a Store Manager, your role is critical in the operational running and success of your store. You will lead by example, being responsible for motivating and supporting a diverse team to deliver against key targets that drive the success of your store.

Contracted Hours: 37.5
Contract Type: Permanent
Pay Rate: £28,000 per annum

With a Talent, Passion and Spark, you will:

• Have a passion for all things selling and customers; leading by example, providing fantastic service to all your customers, and coaching your team to do the same
• Be responsible for delivering the store’s daily, weekly and yearly targets, and ensuring your team know what they need to do each shift to deliver what’s required
• Review store performance and action plans – feeding back any challenges
• Utilising your key holders, ensure your store is opened and closed at the correct times, adhering to all security procedures
• Prepare and issue store rotas
• Be responsible for the stock inventory, ensuring actions are implemented to minimise stock loss
• Be passionate about coaching and mentoring staff; setting them up for success by conducting regular 1:1’s, monitoring performance, and recognising achievements
• You look for talent, passion, and spark when recruiting for your store, recognising that a great team are key to store performance
  
  

What You Will Bring:

We believe that you bring Talent, Passion and Spark and in return we will give you the skills and training in perfume to succeed!

It really helps if you;

• Have a Talent for management, from your previous experience as an assistant/store manager in a fast paced environment
• Have a Passion for teamwork, knowing how to coach and develop your team to deliver high standards and results
• Have the Spark to think and act strategically, enjoying the ‘hands on’ day to day running of your store
• Enjoy providing exceptional customer service to your customers
• Are an expert in understanding KPI’s; sales, service, profit & loss
• Have a commercial mindset, understanding the daily operational running of a store
• Can be flexible with your work patterns

What You Will Get:

• A fantastic base salary
• Annual KPI based bonus
• We pay commission at Christmas based on store sales and the number of hours worked
• 30 days holiday (pro rata depending on contract hours)
• You’re a VIP to us, so you’ll get 20% off perfume and be able to take part in any customer offers on top!
• Additional discounts with our AS Watson partners including Superdrug and 3 mobile
• The opportunity to win some great prizes and incentives based on personal, team and store performance
• Continuous learning and training to ensure you are always developing
• Access to Wagestream, to support your financial wellbeing needs, giving you more control and flexibility with your pay.
• Pension, health and wellbeing benefits, + more!
  

We are passionate about ‘Growing Our Own’, so we always encourage our employees to progress internally. As part of this, we offer apprenticeship schemes for all levels!

We thank you for your interest, however due to the high volumes of applications, only those successful will be contacted. We do still encourage you to continue applying to any roles of interest you see advertised.

The Perfume Shop is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to supporting diversity and inclusion within our work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

The Perfume Shop is part of AS Watson Group, the world’s largest international health and beauty retailer operating over 16,500 stores under 12 retail brands in 28 markets, with over 130,000 employees worldwide. For the fiscal year 2023, AS Watson Group recorded revenue of US$23 billion. Every year, it is serving over 5.5 billion shoppers via its O+O (Offline plus Online) platforms, providing tech-enabled retail experience to customers offline and online.

As we continue to grow we are looking for a dynamic and experienced Purchasing & Operations Manager to join the Caley Timber team in Inverness. The right candidate would have building trade experience and good building product knowledge. Working knowledge of Excel and Word would be preferable.

As we continue to grow we are looking for a dynamic and experienced Purchasing & Operations Manager to join the Caley Timber team in Inverness.

Salary & Benefits include
* £45k salary
* Company vehicle
* Pension contributions
* Growth in future earnings through Employee Ownership Trust

About the role:
As the Purchasing and Operations Manager, you will play a crucial role in overseeing the purchasing process and optimising operational efficiency within Caley Timber. You will be responsible for managing the end-to-end purchasing cycle, ensuring timely and cost-effective procurement of raw materials, and enhancing operational processes to meet company objectives.

You will also play a key role working with our third-party suppliers as regards facilitating health and safety actions and as part of a national buying group.
Some UK travel as part of this role is expected once or twice per month.
About Caley Timber:

We are a leading independent supplier of high-quality building materials, serving a diverse range of clients across Scotland. We are an employee-owned company with an exciting future. With a commitment to sustainability and excellence, we take pride in delivering our clients the best solutions.

We like to think our culture is different, we understand and support balance between work and home. Our environment is empowering and supportive and our team is completely central to our success. As we are owned by our employees we operate, develop and grow our company for the benefit of our employees who play a central role in our decision making.

Job Introduction

Store Location: Inverness

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

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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.

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Sportswift Ltd T/A Card Factory

Job Introduction

Store Location: Inverness RP

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

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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.

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Sportswift Ltd T/A Card Factory

Here at Edinburgh Woollen Mill we have a fantastic opportunity for an Assistant Store Manager at our Inverness Store.
If you would like to be part of a forward-thinking business and have a job with excellent career prospects, we would love to hear from you.
As well as being part of an exciting and dynamic team you will also have the opportunity to gain an industry recognised qualification within your first 18 months of you wish to do so.
As an Assistant Store Manager we are looking for a well rounded and commercial retail manager who is proactive in their approach and can work using their own initiative, fashion retail experience desirable however not essential as full training provided. The ideal candidate will have previous experience either in management or supervision of personnel within a retail outlet.
As Assistant Store Manager, you will be expected to:
•Assist the manager in the day to day operation of the store whilst ensuring costs are contained within targets.
•Maximize store profitability by promoting sales within the store.
•Ensure that a high level of customer service is delivered at all times.
•Manage, coach and motivate the team to deliver to all targets and lead by example.
•Deputize for the manager when necessary.
The ideal candidate will have:
•Commercial awareness
•Excellent leadership credentials
•An ability to drive sales through your team
•Good training and development capabilities
•Desire to progress within our ever-growing business

Our client has an excellent opportunity for an experienced Purchasing Manager to join their team in Inverness.

The Purchasing Manager will be responsible for developing and implementing a purchasing strategy to support sales growth, the management of cash flow and increased profitability. They will also lead, motivate, engage and develop a purchasing team to ensure the most effective service is in place to support the needs of the business. Duties include:

Build strong and effective relationships with key suppliers to ensure they are aware of our business objectives and understand our business needs.
Agree and set out service level agreements with key suppliers and monitor purchase order timescales to ensure agreed price, rebate and timescale terms are being met.
Undertake profitability reviews of existing contracts and re-negotiate or amend as required.
Working in conjunction with managers and buyers, research and ascertain the best products available to meet customer requirements ensuring best value, quality and delivery times and, where possible, have a product range that means the business is a ‘one stop shop’.
Liaise regularly with the Showroom and Branch Managers and Product Managers to understand product ranges, identify missing stock items and be aware of customer or staff feedback regarding products.
Be aware of and understand the requirements and terms of relevant buying groups.
Attend seminars and trade conferences to ensure awareness of up-to-date trends, products and suppliers.

Through discussion with managers throughout the business to understand their specific requirements, be able to influence product distribution and ensure that the Company’s inventory management strategy maximises sales order fulfilment, reduces stock holding and improves stock accuracy.
Maintain an overall view of stock levels, working with buyers and product managers to minimise surplus stocks, ensure the removal of obsolete raw materials and ensure that old stock is managed out of the business in a timely manner at maximum value.
Ensure that inventory management processes with respect to ordering and purchasing of stocks, are effective monitoring system exception reports to ensure timely clearance of issues.
Manage control measures to ensure mistakes, inaccuracies and discrepancies and highlighted, addressed and resolved.
Ensure exception reports are actioned and buying parameters are maintained and corrected.
Analyse supplier performance and produce reports and statistics on spending and cost saving.
Provide agreed reports, data and narrative to the Senior Management Team on a monthly basis.
Lead, coach and develop the purchasing team to ensure the best use of individual skills.
Set clearly defined objectives, conduct annual appraisals and identify training needs for the team.
Set product purchasing authority levels and ensure each team member is aware of those levels.
Ensure that the purchasing team advise internal and external sales teams of additional billing costs for services such as carriage and packing.
Ensure that the purchasing team respond in a timely and effective manner to all enquiries from suppliers and internal and external sales teams.

Person Specification
Be a highly commercial manager able to communicate effectively at all levels within the organisation and with proven experience in managing a team with the ability to motivate and engage them.
Proven experience in a similar role and able to demonstrate significant understanding of purchasing/inventory processes, measures and controls.
Possess excellent communication skills and have the ability to negotiate effectively with suppliers and colleagues.
Have a detailed understanding of Economic Order Quantity ordering.
Adopts a highly analytical and methodical approach with high attention to detail and the ability to solve problems.
Excellent IT skills.
Membership of a recognised Purchasing body.
Prior knowledge of a similar organisation and/or industrial products.

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Job Description Summary

Kohl’s mission is to inspire and empower families to lead fulfilled lives; you are at the forefront for bringing this into action. You will create a first-class omnichannel experience by promoting a hospitality mentality in all areas of the store for Kohl’s Customers and Associates. You will play a large part in driving store sales and profit by ensuring customer satisfaction and brand standards through the hiring, training and development of associates in customer engagement, operations and merchandise presentation.

Job Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Recruit, interview and hire talent
• Collaborate with the store executive team to develop and execute associate retention strategies
• Foster a collaborative and engaged environment, addressing and managing associate concerns
• Communicate and educate associates on key priorities to support Sales, Service and Loyalty
• Continuously develop and coach all associates, including appraising their performance for the purpose of recommending and executing on promotions or other changes in position
• Ensure associates adherence to Kohl’s policies and procedures
• Create a hospitality mentality among all associates on the sales floor, creating a best in class customer experience
• Maintain a customer-ready store environment, ensuring associates are responsible for maintaining high standards of recovery and merchandising
• Make informed decisions to support store expense management (e.g. payroll, productivity, shortage)
• Assist and guide associates on the point of commerce process
• Lead the execution on all merchandising directives
• Demonstrate product knowledge, understanding customer demand and merchandising best practices to recommend selection and placement
• Collaborate with fellow store executives to identify trends and opportunities to make business recommendations
• Assess and allocate resources to support business and workload demands
• Control the flow of merchandise by ensuring associates are replenishing merchandise, making products readily available to customers
• Exercise good judgment and discretion in making necessary management decisions

As an Assistant Store Manager, you are a part of the store executive team and will be in charge of one or more departments as well as various functional areas throughout the store. The performance of your key responsibilities is necessary to the success of the store. You will also have a significant role in leading associate development as well as assessing and evolving your own development. The manner in which you perform these responsibilities will vary depending upon on many factors, including the store at which you work, the composition of the store team, the departments or areas that you oversee and your experience. This is a salaried, full-time position; the number of hours may vary from week to week.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

REQUIRED

• Multiple years experience managing a significant retail volume in a fast paced customer service environment
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop a large team of associates
• Anticipate challenges and obstacles developing solutions to these problems
• Experience working in a fast paced and changing environment
• Experience working with all levels of management, building partnerships
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to multi-task
• Open and close the store on an as needed basis
• Ability to occasionally work overnight

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to lift 50 pounds on an occasional to frequent basis
• Ability to spend up to 100% of work time standing or moving about the sales floor
• Physical activity includes bending, stopping, lifting, climbing, carrying, walking and/or reaching on a frequent basis