Location:
Drayman Square, 4 Victoria Street, Southwold, Suffolk, IP18 6GB
Salary:
£28,000 Per Annum
Employment type:
Full Time
Salary additions:
Comprehensive and innovative benefits package

The Adnams flagship shop and Cafe is situated in the heart of Southwold at the end of the high street and just on the corner of Victoria Street. The team provide amazing service every day to our regular customers and to the thousands of visitors to the town. The cafe is busy all year round, but especially in the summer when the courtyard is sunny and peaceful. There's only a handful of customer parking spaces at the shop but free parking is only a short walk away on the Common or in the near by streets.

Assistant Store Manager, Southwold (42 hours per week)

Our shops house a wide range of Adnams products including our award-winning beers, wines and handcrafted spirits, as well as homeware and food ranges. We are looking to recruit an experienced Assistant Store Manager for our Flagship shop and cafe in Southwold.   

As our Flagship Assistant Store Manager, you will work closely with the Store Manager and Retail team to create the best vision of Adnams in collaboration with key business stakeholders; inspiring store team members to promote our ranges of beers wines and spirits while delivering exceptional customer experiences.  

 

We offer an excellent package for our Assistant Store Manager including - 

  • Competitive Salary 
  • Company Pension 
  • Life Assurance 
  • Share Incentive Plan 
  • 33 days holiday 
  • Career Development Opportunities 
  • Wellbeing Programmes 
  • Fabulous employee discounts! 

We encourage each member of our team to grow, develop and progress within Adnams and so we are committed to providing you with continual training and development to support you with your career goals and progression within the store and wider business. 

 

What do you need to know about Adnams and our Team?  

We make amazing award-winning beers and spirits from our home in Southwold, have some great shops across the region and operate some stunning pubs and hotels. We understand the value of every customer and work hard to deliver amazing service in a time of exciting innovation and digital transformation. 

We do all of this while caring passionately about the environment, our local communities and our wider social responsibilities. 

At Adnams we really care about diversity and are proud of our culture where everyone is respected, valued and treated with kindness. 

 

What are we looking for? 

We are looking for an experienced Assistant Store Manager who will support the Store Manager in inspiring and developing a large, high performing team to meet the needs of future company growth, whilst always acting with integrity.  The ideal candidate will have retail experience and the commercial capability to generate sales and deliver on sales targets.

 

Main responsibilities will include:

  • Working with the Store Manager to actively engage in growing store profitability.
  • Achieve high standards of merchandise presentation, promotional activity and customer eventing opportunities.
  • Supporting the Store Manager with team rotas and scheduling, as well as other people management support.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with local trade accounts to grow sales volumes.
  • Grow the team's product knowledge and drive engagement delivering high standards of customer service and selling activities.

This role requires the successful candidate to be flexible, working weekends and must hold a full UK driving licence.  

 

What's in it for you? 

Hopefully, a sense of pride that you are working for a business that cares about the important stuff and a lot of fun working with an amazing bunch of people. 

Enthusiastic and hard-working people who join Adnams tend to stay around so we must get quite a lot of things right. We really admire innovation and are not afraid to try something new, so you get to put new ideas into practice to deliver even better results for everyone.