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🟢 Actively Hiring · Posted 25d ago ⏳ Closes in 66 days UK Corridor 🛡️ UK Work Eligibility 🏢 Company - Public

Stores Facilities Lead -International

🏢 WHSmith • 📍 United Kingdom • 🕒 Sep 14, 2026
Salary Range
£25,000 - £30,000
£2,083 - £2,500 / mo

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United Kingdom
Tier-1 UK Economic Zone
Est. Take-Home Pay
68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)
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1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard
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Position Overview & Specifications

Store Facilities Lead
We are now looking for a Store Facilities Lead to join Central Operations in our Head Office supporting with the daily operations of our international stores including deployment of services, supporting to maintain and improve facilities, helping to reduce risks and establishing processes.

What you’ll do
This role has a varied remit covering services at work such as ensuring stores have the necessary requisites to action business needs and deployment of uniforms working with relevant suppliers. The successful candidate will help with the upkeep of facilities within our stores by working with stakeholders such as Maintenance and I.T teams. The role will support with identifying risks in key areas such as Food Safety and Risk Assessments through audits and managing actions to minimise risks and identify ways to improve.

It’s an exciting time to be working in the team as we are part of a growing and developing business and you will be supporting to identify more efficient ways of working and simplifying processes to improve colleague engagement and the customer experience. The role will be supporting to set-up new stores and deploy new operational projects to continuously improve the business.

Throughout all this remit the role will cover managing costs with suppliers and supporting with invoicing processes.

With stores across multiple markets with different languages, you will be supporting to engage our colleagues and help bring the International community together through our shared company values.

Reporting to the Head of Central Operations, you will be working together with UK based and Local In-Country Head office teams along with key suppliers to ensure the implementation of the agreed standards of the business.

Who we’re looking for
Ideally, you’ll come from a retail stores background, with an understanding of tasks in stores and an interest in process efficiencies. This is a great opportunity for any one with some supervisory / across store experience in a retail role who is looking for their first move into a central function.

What is essential is to be thorough with attention to detail and a relentlessness to ensuring actions are progressed, excellent communication skills to work with stakeholders, suppliers and stores across a international business. You’ll will be confident on Office applications including Excel, PowerPoint with good presentation skills. You will have an interest in exploring new and innovative ways of improving processes.

You’ll be a natural problem solver, who is very organised with a detailed approach that can effectively manage a busy workload across multiple topics and be able to meet tight deadlines within a fast paced environment.

Format of Business

Distribution Centre

Full Time / Part Time

Full Time

Position Type

Permanent

Salary From

£25,000

Salary To

£30,000

Hours / Week

36.25

Country

UK

County

Greater London

Job Code / Grade

C

Post Code

ec3a7bx

Candidate Selection & Onboarding Process

1

Application & Resume Screening

Submit your tailored CV/Resume directly to the talent acquisition portal.

2

Technical & Competency Interviews

Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.

3

Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation

Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.

4

Onboarding & Corporate Integration

Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.

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Based on transatlantic hiring benchmarks for Stores Facilities Lead -International roles across WHSmith's corporate sector, successful applicants typically excel across three core dimensions:

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2. Behavioral & Leadership

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