Store Manager - Convenience - Thurso
Convenience Store Manager
Location: Morrisons Daily Thurso
Employment Type: Full-time (Requires flexible shifts, including early mornings, late nights, and weekends)
Step into Store Ownership
Are you a natural shopkeeper with a passion for customer service? At Morrisons Daily, we are looking for an entrepreneurial Store Manager to lead one of our busy local stores.
As Store Manager, you’ll run your store like it’s your own business: serving your local community, developing your team, driving performance, and making your store the best place to work and shop.
Key Responsibilities
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Commercial & Business Growth: Treat the store as your own business. Find innovative ways to boost sales, enhance product offerings, and manage costs effectively.
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Exceptional Customer Experience: Lead from the front to deliver high-quality service aligned with the trusted Morrisons brand promise.
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Team Leadership & Development: Champion an inclusive workplace culture. Oversee recruitment, onboarding, training, and ongoing career progression for your team.
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Operational Excellence: Maintain top-tier store standards, ensuring full compliance with health, safety, and operational guidelines.
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Community Engagement: Build genuine relationships with local residents and ensure your store serves as a helpful hub for the neighborhood.
What We’re Looking For
While experience in retail, convenience, or hospitality is helpful, we prioritise leadership capability over a specific checklist. You’ll thrive in this role if you have:
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A Passion for People: Proven ability to coach, inspire, and develop team members to reach their full potential.
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A Hands-On Leadership Style: A willingness to work alongside your team on the shop floor to hit daily targets.
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Resilience & Problem-Solving Skills: The drive to tackle daily challenges head-on in a fast-paced environment.
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Strong Influence: The confidence to pitch fresh ideas and encourage new ways of working.
Note: If your store includes Post Office services, appointment is subject to a mandatory P250 financial background check.
Why Join Us? (Perks & Benefits)
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Competitive & Flexible Salary: Discussed early in the application process to align directly with your experience.
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Generous Staff Discount: 15% off across convenience, supermarket, and online purchases.
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Paid Time Off: 28 days of annual leave.
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Health & Wellbeing: Free access to Vita Health and Aviva Digital GP services.
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Perk Portal ('My Morri'): Exclusive savings, instant discounts, and cashback on dining, leisure, and shopping.
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Pension Scheme: Contributory company pension plan.
About Morrisons Daily
Since acquiring McColl’s in 2022, Morrisons Daily has expanded to over 1,700 nationwide stores across our company-owned and franchise network. We combine local convenience with trusted supermarket value - offering essential products right where our customers need them most.
What Happens Next?
We value diversity and encourage you to apply even if you don't tick every single box!
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Online Application: Submit your CV/application online.
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Screening Call: An informal introductory chat with a recruiter to discuss your background.
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Interview: A formal interview with the Area Manager.
If you need reasonable adjustments during the hiring process, please email georgia.bullimore@morrisonsplc.co.uk.
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
Provost Sinclair Road, Thurso, United Kingdom, KW14 7AS
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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