Assistant Store Manager
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Position Overview & Specifications
- About the Role
Permanent 37 Hours
£12.92 per hour
Your inspirational leadership will make our store a great place to work for your team. Somewhere they can be themselves and progress in a rewarding career with a company that always looks to promote talent internally.
You’ll be in competition with sites of outstanding natural beauty, but you’ll nevertheless aim to make visiting our stores a highlight of every customers’ day. That’s a challenge you’ll take on every day by driving standards among your team and setting goals for their ongoing development.
Deputising for the Store Manager when required, you’ll use sales figures as your guide as you help them develop strategies for recruitment and stock management as well as a labour model aligning resource to demand. As you do that, you’ll ready yourself to make the step up to being the manager for real when the time comes.
About You
You’ll be able to win over the team straightaway with your passionate and energetic approach to what you do. An experienced hand in retail management, you’ll know how to get the best out of your team members and assist their development with training that will keep them motivated and always improving.
By looking analytically at performance, you’ll be able to identify ways to make us better at what we do so we can smash KPIs and move forward as a better retailer. You’ll want to get creative and make a real difference with your next career move—at Lakeland we’re ready for you to do exactly that.
About Lakeland
Founded in the early 60s, we're still a family-owned business with the same strong values of quality and customer care now as when we first started. From selling plastic bags for home freezing from the Rayner family garage in Windermere, to over 4000 kitchen and home products today, Lakeland has grown to the extent that we now send out thousands of parcels a day from our Kendal despatch centre, and we have stores nationwide, stretching from Aberdeen to Exeter, with more in the pipeline..
Benefits
There are many benefits to being part of the Lakeland team. Other than being part of a huge and happy working family, our colleagues are rewarded with a competitive salary, discretionary bonus scheme and a group personal pension plan.
There are 29 days’ paid holiday (including bank holidays) and generous discounts on our products. We offer a great retail environment, and the chance to be part of a team who like to work and socialise together.
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Candidate Selection & Onboarding Process
Application & Resume Screening
Submit your tailored CV/Resume directly to the talent acquisition portal.
Technical & Competency Interviews
Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.
Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation
Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.
Onboarding & Corporate Integration
Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.
United Kingdom Right to Work & Skilled Worker Visa Guide
Employment in the United Kingdom requires legal Right to Work verified under the Home Office Points-Based Immigration System:
Sponsoring employers must hold an active Home Office A-rated Sponsor License and assign a valid Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS). Role must meet the general minimum salary threshold (£38,700) or occupation going rate.
Continuous employment under Skilled Worker status establishes eligibility for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) after 5 continuous years, leading to British Citizenship.
Candidate Preparation Blueprint: Other Retail Shops
Based on transatlantic hiring benchmarks for Assistant Store Manager roles across Lakeland's corporate sector, successful applicants typically excel across three core dimensions:
Demonstrated portfolio evidence, architecture/system design case studies, or validated professional certifications directly applicable to Other Retail Shops.
STAR method competency responses highlighting cross-functional leadership, conflict resolution, and delivering measurable enterprise ROI under tight timelines.
Total compensation expectation aligned within the benchmarked Salary Disclosed on Application bracket, including retirement vesting and health parity.
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