Deputy Store Manager Designate – Manchester - 39 Hours
Who are we?
We’re Pets at Home – if you’re someone who loves pets, you might know already know about our range of Pet Care Centres, Pets Grooming salons, and Vets for Pets practices around the UK. Our Pet Care Centres are community-focused pet care stores – where local people work with local pet owners and help local pets.
What’s the role?
As a Deputy Store Manager Designate, as the Deputy Store Manager, you’ll work closely with several Store Managers in the local area to oversee the store’s day-to-day operations and ensure the best possible experience for our customers and their pets.
When the Store Manager is unavailable, you’ll take full responsibility for the store, leading the team and managing all aspects of the business, from recruitment and performance management to stock control and maintaining our high standards.
Your key responsibilities will include:
We’ll provide comprehensive training and development opportunities to ensure you have the skills and knowledge to deliver exceptional service and care to our customers and their pets.
Who are we looking for?
We’d love to hear from you if you:
Benefits
We reward our management team with a comprehensive package designed to support your well-being, including:
Click here to read our Values & Behaviours
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Join Us!
Pets just see people—they don’t discriminate, and neither do we. We celebrate the diversity of our colleagues and encourage you to be yourself. Even if your skills don’t perfectly align, your unique contribution through your values and behaviours could make you a great fit for our team.
Don’t wait—apply now! We may close the vacancy early due to high interest.
Since 1991, when we were a wholesaler with a team of just 15, we’ve been focused on getting better every day. By putting pets before profit, working as a team and taking pride in everything we do, we’ve grown into a 451 store network with more than 8,913 colleagues working in our Stores, Grooming Salons, Distribution Centres and Support Office.
We are the UK’s leading pet specialist, providing pet owners with all their product needs, as well as our Vets for Pets practices and Grooming salons. We support our colleagues to work with pride and passion, to bring honesty and integrity to work every day, and to do it all with a sense of fun and fearlessness. We never shy away from having the important conversations and doing what we say we’ll do.
Our values and behaviours are practiced daily across the business and are what really makes us an enjoyable, exciting place to work. We're always striving to develop and reward our colleagues with an extensive in-house series of training programmes, wellbeing initiatives and a comprehensive benefits package. In 2018 we were delighted to be voted top 5 in the Great Place to Work UK’s Large category.
Our colleagues are central to the success of the business and are fully trained in pet care and dedicated to animal welfare. Pets are central to everything that we do and 93% of colleagues have their own pets too!
If you like the sound of life at Pets at Home, you can find out more on our dedicated careers site: https://www.petsathomejobs.com/
