Retail Store Assistant Manager

Retail Store Assistant Manager

We are now recruiting for our 2024 winter season across various roles on our beautiful Lincolnshire based holiday park, join our large team of hospitality professionals today.

Location: Tattershall Lakes Country Park, Lincolnshire 

Hours of work: 40 Hours - Permanent

Salary: £25,355.20

What we need in a nutshell

We’re looking for an experienced retail professional to support the Retail Store Manager on our busiest holiday park. Someone who has the drive to take our retail operation and make it a commercial and critical success through creative thinking and practical and diligent implementation.

What we can offer you 

• Pension scheme
• Up to 50% Discounts on Away Resorts holidays
• 20% On-park discounts
• Monthly Team incentives
• Holiday Hero Menu
• Life Insurance
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay (Over 2 years)
• Holiday buy scheme
• Help @ Hand scheme
• Perk Box Vouchers
• Career Development – if you are hungry for more, we have a proven track record in investing into our team members. 

What you’ll be doing

Working as part of our team of Holiday Heroes, you will be supporting the Store Manager and making sure that our guests experience the best possible time with us.  This includes:

• Leading, training, and motivating a team to deliver delight.
• Overseeing the smooth running of the venue, the preparation for service, as well as overseeing service and supervising the after-service duties.
• Working alongside the team in a fast paced, high-volume venue with a constant eye on delivering world class service.
• Driving revenue through service and sales whilst having an eye on profitable growth, delivered with care and flair.
• Controlling margin through careful stock management and stock reconciliation through stocktakes.
• Supporting and standing in for the Retail Store Manager.
• Ordering stock from a list of approved suppliers.
• Dealing with numerous deliveries on a daily basis.

A can-do attitude, attention to detail and excellent people skills are essential. Being available to work evenings and weekends including bank holidays are also essential.

The shop on site at Tattershall Lakes is a busy fast paced business. Dealing with high volumes of customers, cooking hot food to go, as well as ordering stock and dealing with deliveries daily. We are looking for someone with a passion in retail, who is keen to learn the business and help expand what we do.

Skills, experience, and qualities you’ll need

We have high standards! We’ll train you up, but you must:

• Have previous management experience in a Retail environment
• Show evidence of your superb people management skills
• Have an eye for detail, a head for business and a mindset for innovation
• Have knowledge and experience of retail and its many challenges
• Have energy, enthusiasm, and a positive attitude

Nice to have but not essential

It would be great if you tick some of these boxes too (but we will not hold it against you if you don’t).

• Know your profit and loss from your balance sheet and be able to control costs and grow profit
• Level 2 in Food safety
• Personal licence
• Experience of working in the holiday sector
• Retail experience
• Stock taking experience

It’s about your values too. We have a can-do, fun loving, people centred ethos here at Away Resorts, which is captured by our holiday heroes’ mantra of Attentive Amazing Lovers – if that’s fired up your curiosity, have a read about it here and decide if it describes you.

Our promise to you 

Holiday Heroes come with all sorts of different super-powers, and we welcome them all! After all, wouldn’t it be boring if we were all the same? We embrace diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities. We love that everyone comes from different backgrounds, allowing us to grow and inspire each other. We’ll never accept any form of discrimination, and we’ll forever strive, not just for our product to be unique, but our people too. In short, we want to bring your whole self to work!  

Want to join our team? Here’s how to apply

Click HERE. If you’re new to our website, we’ll prompt you to register. If you’ve already registered, you can simply log in. Then complete your details and send us your best version of you.

 Good Luck!