Fresh Food Manager
🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 5 May 2026
LOCATION
Verwood
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Retail
This employer holds a UK Home Office sponsor license — sponsorship for this specific role is at the employer’s discretion
SKILLS
Team management
Customer service
Communication
Stakeholder management
Adaptability
Training and development
Talent identification
Performance management
FULL DESCRIPTION
Fresh Food Manager
Company: [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk]
Location: Verwood, United Kingdom
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Competitive salary
Closing Date: 03 June 2026
About the Role
At [Employer hidden], we are recruiting for a high performing Fresh Food Manager to help our business continue to grow and succeed. Reporting into the Store Manager, you will:
- Lead and empower colleagues to always put the customer first and deliver outstanding customer service
- Listen and respond to our customers feedback and react accordingly
- Ensure market leading availability across the store
- Work with the other Managers in store to lead a supportive and performance driven department
- Efficiently manage all people routines, taking accountability of department(s) scheduling, absence, performance and talent conversations
- Deliver training to ensure team have the capability and confidence to deliver their role
- Enable colleagues to work with confidence across various departments
- Identify and develop talent within the department
- Build effective relationships with other operating departments
- Lead colleagues to work with purpose, delivering outstanding performance against all relevant targets across the department(s)
- Take a leadership role within the store
- Ensure resource is planned thoroughly
About You
We are looking for someone with:
- Experience of managing a team in a fast paced environment
- Great communication skills to share knowledge, experience and best practices
- Ability to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across all areas whilst remaining flexible
- Adaptability to change, whilst being able to challenge effectively
- Active listening and responding effectively to customers and colleagues
Rewards and Benefits
[Employer hidden] offers a competitive salary and superb benefits package including:
- Generous bonus
- Attractive pension scheme
- Private healthcare
- Colleague discount (15% off shopping, shareable with family/friend)
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave
- Neonatal and fertility leave
- Holiday buy scheme and payroll giving
- Healthcare cash plan
- Wellbeing support via Vita Health and Aviva Digital GP
About [Employer hidden]
[Employer hidden] is a Yorkshire-based food retailer and manufacturer, with nearly 500 stores across the UK, 90,000 colleagues, and 11 million customers weekly. We pride ourselves on freshness from farm to fork and have been serving customers since 1899.
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