Trainee Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with the store manager to bring exciting ideas to life, making your store successful through creative planning, and building an exemplary in-store team.
• Support the store manager in building a team of customer-focused individuals who are enthusiastic about enhancing the overall shopping experience.
• Assist in nurturing a customer-centric team by participating in training sessions, providing constructive feedback, and observing the store manager's leadership.
• Leading a management team to help you achieve the store's top-box goals
• Delegating to your management team in order to achieve the needs of the customer and the store.
• Out-of-the-box thinking to achieve success whilst innovating and collaborating with your team.
• Contribute to managing the store's finances by assisting in setting annual budgets, driving sales, and understanding how to control staffing levels and stock to meet customer needs.
• Maintaining a beautiful store with effective merchandising, high standards of cleanliness, and strong stock management that enhance the customers' experience in your store.
• Develop relationships within your local community to enhance your customer's experience when they come into your store.
• Actively engage in personal development by utilizing training opportunities, collaborating with other teams around Lush, and gaining exposure to other stores and various aspects of the business.
• Creating and facilitating a shopping experience that encourages your team to consistently make their customers' day
• With the store manager's support, take on your own projects to make positive changes and add your unique touch, helping our store thrive and grow.
  
  

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Benefits

• Holiday allowance
• 50% discount on Lush products and spa treatments
• Discretionary and profit-based bonus
• Pension scheme
• Day off for weekday birthdays
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted rail and bus season tickets 
• Employee assistance programme
• 6 months of full pay for parental leave (primary caregiver must qualify for SMP)*
• Enhanced paternity leave*
• There’s a big difference between "Flexible Working " (the legal minimum) and working flexibly. What that looks like varies from role to role, and location to location. We actively welcome conversations about what working flexibly could mean and look like for you. 
• We’re 10% Employee Owned - all colleagues play a role in protecting our ethics, our independence, contributing ideas for the future and share in the rewards of success when the company is doing well.
• Access to employee-led Community Networks, including Disability and Chronic Illness, Family Support, Global Majority (Race and Ethnicity), LGBTQIA+, Menopause and Neurodiversity communities.
• Tailored gender affirming care*