Management

Assistant Store Manager - Livingston Store - Base salary of £23,500 with the potential to earn up to £33,000 with On Target Earnings - Deputising for the store manager, running the shift in their absence, training colleagues and helping our customers choose the right products for a great night's sleep!

We are seeking a dedicated Financial Manager to help lead our Financial Reporting and Compliance. Reporting directly to the VP Finance, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring accurate and timely public IFRS financial statement reporting, overseeing monthly management closing processes in a key location, and upholding policy and compliance standards. Your expertise in financial reporting, coupled with a strong understanding of regulatory requirements, will be crucial in maintaining the financial integrity of our organization. See website for more details

Covering Livingston and surrounding areas it's far from traditional cold calling (although we’re not afraid of that), it’s about nurturing and fostering relationships, developing contacts on site with customers and helping them find the most innovative and cost-efficient solutions for their needs. You'll be adaptable in your approach to the customer in front of you as it could be a senior management team one day and a sole trader the next, finding yourself on construction sites or in offices and warehouses. This means rolling your sleeves up and demonstrate some of the most pioneering products and solutions in the industry, along with all the services and after-care that come with ESS.

As a Customer Experience leader your job is to delight and inspire customers all the way from the car park to the checkout. Whether they’re collecting online orders, stocking up on essentials or filling up with petrol, you’ll make sure they enjoy the very best experience. Reporting into our Lead Customer Experience Manager, your job is focused on operational in-store management, ensuring that your area is running smoothly, day in, day out. There’s an emphasis on managing a medium to large instore team – assigning tasks and planning breaks, creating rotas, addressing performance issues both sensitively and effectively, and helping with recruitment. See website for more details

You’ll run the shift during the day, managing your team’s performance and time, demonstrating a decisive, organised and inclusive approach. Reporting into the Store Manager, you and the small team of other managers will be planning in advance including shift patterns, product availability and busy times throughout the day so that those essential products are there for our customers and everything runs like clockwork. And at the end of every shift, you’ll give a thorough handover to the next Manager.

You’ve already got a track record of achieving success with your team, working together to give customers a fantastic experience. Accountable for the day to day running of your Centre, for maximising profit and minimising loss, in this role you’ll really come into your own. Delivering excellence will be woven through everything that you and your team do, both in terms of quality standards and results. You’ll already have some experience in the automotive trade or a technical background. You’re no stranger to efficiency, and will optimise workforce scheduling, ensuring maximum capacity in the Centre to meet customer demand. Alongside this, with your analysis of customer metric and Centre performance data, you’ll lead your team to deliver against – and exceed - sales margin and profit targets.

Researching and identifying existing as well as new market opportunities, trends, partnerships and developing a growth strategy focused to increase financial growth and quality of services. Maintaining, developing and extending existing relationships. Understanding customer business drivers for both short- and long-term projects. Managing the full sales cycles from lead to closure, driving offer establishment and contract negotiations. Generating leads and cold call prospective customers. Thinking strategically – ensuring aims and objectives are set in order to develop and improve the business. Having a good understanding of the businesses services and being able to advise others about them. Ensuring staff throughout the organisation are aligned with the strategic plan. Training and mentoring of staff as the business grows Discussing promotional strategy and activities with the commercial department and/or Office Manager. See more on website