Graham Eyes - Butcher Area Manager
Contract Type: Permanent - Full TimeHours of work: 39 hours per week
About the Role
Our Graham Eyes Area Butcher Managers play a key role in ensuring our butchery departments deliver exceptional quality, strong commercial performance and great customer service.
Working across a number of SPAR stores, you will provide leadership, support and direction to our Butcher Managers and their teams, ensuring consistently high standards across all locations.
Here’s What You Can Expect to be Doing
As Area Butcher Manager, you will take responsibility for the performance and standards of butchery departments across your area. You will work closely with Butcher Managers to develop their teams, maximise sales and profitability, and ensure our customers receive the quality and service they expect from Graham Eyes.
Your responsibilities will include:
Leading, supporting and developing Butcher Managers across multiple locations
Driving sales, profitability and overall commercial performance across your area
Monitoring key performance indicators and taking action to improve results
Ensuring consistently high standards of product quality, availability, presentation and customer service
Supporting stores with effective stock management, ordering, stocktaking and availability
Monitoring and controlling waste and identifying opportunities to improve margins
Ensuring food safety procedures, HACCP requirements and company policies are consistently followed
Maintaining company standards across window displays, upright counters and all butchery departments
Supporting Butcher Managers with colleague performance, rotas and resource planning
Coaching and developing colleagues to build strong, capable and motivated butchery teams
Identifying opportunities to grow sales and improve the customer offer within individual locations
Regularly visiting stores across your area, providing hands-on support and ensuring agreed actions are delivered
Working closely with Store Managers and the wider business to deliver company objectives and maintain high operational standards
A Few Things About You
Proven management experience within a butchery or fresh food environment is essential
Experience of managing, supporting or influencing teams across multiple locations would be advantageous
Strong commercial awareness with the ability to drive sales, control costs and improve profitability
Excellent leadership and people management skills
A thorough knowledge of HACCP and food safety requirements
Strong knowledge and practical experience of butchery
Confident in coaching, developing and motivating managers and their teams
Able to identify opportunities and take ownership of improving performance
Enthusiastic, committed and self-motivated
Adopts a ‘can do’ attitude to challenging situations
Organised and able to prioritise effectively across multiple locations
A flexible approach to working hours and travel between stores
A full UK driving licence is essential