Area Manager - Convenience
As an Area Manager, you are responsible for up to 33 Convenience stores across your area. You will run your area with an entrepreneurial spirit, ensuring your Store Managers’ number one priorities are their customers, colleagues and local communities.
Reporting to the Regional Operations Manager you will be responsible for:
- Leading a team to create a culture where our customer experience is the best in the market, in line with the Morrisons brand. Always challenging and thinking of new ways to serve our customers better.
- Working hard to get the best out of your area's commercial performance by growing both retail sales and Post Office income.
- Recruiting, leading, developing and coaching Store Managers. Ensuring that together you build an inclusive culture where everyone is empowered to deliver great customer service.
- Ensuring through great leadership and presence in stores, planning and execution, great standards and KPI’s are delivered by all stores in your area.
About you
Our Area Managers must have prior experience in fast paced, service focused environments such as retail, convenience or the hospitality sector. You will ideally have prior experience of managing a high-turnover retail operation, or have held a multi-site role. In addition to this, we look for people that have:
- Proven ability to lead a high performing team of Store Managers by coaching, motivating and inspiring
- A passion for identifying and developing talent.
- Ability to influence, listen and understand other perspectives to inspire and think broadly about new ways of doing things.
- Commercial awareness in order to develop competitive operational plans with sound awareness of local competitor activity.
- Ability to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across all areas / levels of the business.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
If you don't meet every single requirement, don't worry. We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
How do we say thank you?
You will play a vital role in our business and have a huge impact on our success so not only will you receive excellent training, support and continued development, but we will also offer a competitive salary, and a superb benefits package which includes:
- 10% colleague discount at McColl’s & Morrisons Daily stores
- Annual bonus
- Company car
- Up to 5% matched pension contribution
- Life Assurance up to 2 X annual salary
- 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays)
- Access to BHSF private healthcare (after 3 months)
- Access to Health & Wellbeing support
About us
Morrisons acquired the McColl’s business in 2022. Our convenience proposition consists of a network of 1,004 convenience stores and newsagents. Our stores are made up of Morrisons Daily, McColl’s, Martins and R S McColl stores across England, Scotland, and Wales.
Our aim is to be Your Favourite Neighbourhood Shop, providing a great range of quality everyday products and services, close to where people live, so we’re always available when customers need us.
Next Steps
Applicants who are shortlisted will be contacted by a recruiter and a screening call will be held. This is an informal call where you will discuss your experience and the role in further detail to identify if you are potentially suitable for the role.
Following a screening call, if you are deemed suitable, the next and final stage would be an interview with the area manager. Further details will be provided should you make it to this stage.
Reward & Benefits
We've highlighted below some of our standard Rewards & Benefits that our colleagues receive. Please note, some roles come with additional benefits such as bonus, company car allowance etc. you'll find further details where applicable in our adverts, or you can speak to someone in our resourcing team for more information.
Plan your journey
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Learning and development is at the heart of our business
As you can imagine, Morrisons is a busy place to be. There’s lots going on - processes, changes, new initiatives, different ways of working. And that’s just on a Monday morning.
It means there’s a lot to learn. But learning isn’t just about understanding what’s involved in day-to-day workloads. It’s also about growing and developing in your career, too. That’s why we’ve made sure that learning and development is at the heart of our business. We’re here to make sure everyone has everything they need to be their best - and to go as far as they want.
Our DE&I workstreams
We're proud to have a diverse group of colleagues working here. We want everyone to feel valued in an environment where we promote respect, where they feel a sense of belonging, and feel celebrated as individuals.
These are the moments that matter to them - and they matter to us, too.
Everyone is welcome to get involved in our Ethnic Diversity, Ability, LGBTQ+, Women, and Family & Carers workstreams, too. They’re designed to help us better reflect our customers, colleagues, and communities so we can become an even more inclusive business.
As a business, we love bringing people together. And we think it’s one of the biggest reasons to be part of our team.
Our Process
We've outlined below what our typical process looks like, this can vary slightly depending upon the role or team you've applied for. Our goal is to provide a positive and accessible experience for all applicants, ensuring everyone has the support they need to showcase their best selves.
Our resourcing team are on hand to help with any questions about your application and you can reach them by e-mailing resourcing@morrisonsplc.co.uk.
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Find an opportunity that's right for you
Once you've found a role that's right for you, you can apply via this site. If it's your first time applying with us then we'll need all your essential information and we might ask you to upload your most recent CV. If you've applied for roles with us before then we should recognise you and you won't need to share these details again, unless something has changed that you need to update us on.
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Online Assessment (Customer Assistant roles)
After your application, we might send you an e-mail and ask you to complete an online assessment. This is typically a situation judgement test where we'll ask you ten questions with mutliple choice answers and takes around 10-15 minutes to complete. The questions will give you a feel for the types of scenarios you might encounter working in our stores - think customer first.
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Let's find out more
For some of our stores and site roles, if you've been successful with your application we might just e-mail and ask you to book a slot for your interview. For other roles our resourcing team will get in touch with you to find out a bit more about you and why you applied. They'll also answer any questions you might have about us and the role. After all, it's a two way process!
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Interview
Our interviews are typically face to face but can sometimes be virtual. Don't worry, we'll advise either way. Your interview can differ depending on the role or team. Part of the interview may include some competency questions against our Ways of Working (listed below).
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Final Stage
With some of our roles there might be a second interveiw. This tends to be for roles in our Head Office and some salaried positions across our stores and sites. As part of this second stage, we might ask you to complete a task, such as a SWOT analysis or something similar, and present it back during the interview. This helps us understand your approach and thinking about the role.
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Decision
Our resourcing team or the store or site you've applied to will be in touch with you as soon as they can to let you know the outcome. If you've been successful we'll share the details of our offer with you and follow up with everything you need on e-mail.
Ways of Working
Our Ways of Working are like a set of values that define our core beliefs, guide decision-making, and shape our culture and how we operate.
Customer First - I care about our customers and do everything I can to meet their needs
Teamwork - I always play my part in the team, and I recognise we go further together
Working Freely in a Framework - I’m trusted to make my own decisions and encouraged to improve things for customers and for us
Care and Respect - We care more and try harder; for each other, for everyone around Morrisons
Listen and Respond - I take the time to talk with and listen to colleagues and customers, and always do the right thing for the them
Grow Sales, Low Cost - I understand my part in the end-to-end process and look for ways to drive improvement
Kerry
Store Manager - Morrisons Daily
View story“ A standout moment for me at Morrisons was being signed off as a Store Manager - it was a massive confidence boost to know that I was capable of doing it. ”
Shane
Store colleague - Morrisons Daily
View story“ The advice I'd give to people looking to apply would be to take every opportunity and use the skills to help you progress. ”
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