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RETAIL STORE MANAGER – 30 HOURS PER WEEK

Established in 2012 Grape Tree currently has 184 stores in the UK. We are looking to recruit an ambitious, confident and enthusiastic Retail Store Manager who can represent our Company in our BRAND NEW STOCKPORT STORE. You will be reporting to the Retail Operations Manager.

• You will provide fast, efficient, pleasant and unrivalled customer service.
• As a Retail Store Manager of Grape Tree, you need to ensure that the store is well stocked, clean and tidy and that customers leave the store with a lasting image to ensure they keep returning.
• Strong understanding of stock control i.e. ordering goods, dealing with deliveries and banking monies.
• You must be a hands on manager.
• Operate the till in accordance with the company instructions.
• Provide highest possible standard of customer service.
• Ensure that the shelves are well filled/stocked and faced up at all times.
• Ensure correct pricing of products and stock rotation including the removal from sale of any goods exceeding the use by date and advise management of any Best before issues.
• Ensure the maintenance of high standards of hygiene, cleanliness and safety throughout the store.
• Observe company rules at all times and report any breach of company rules witnessed.
• Ensuring all staff fully co-operate to ensure the smooth running of the store.

• Ability to provide excellent customer service, ideally with experience in food retail.
• Good cash handling skills.
• Excellent staff supervision and organisational skills.
• Organised & practically minded, be able to roll your sleeves up and get stuck in.
• You may have experience of the following: Retail Store Supervisor/Manager, Food Retail, Supermarket, Customer Service, Convenience Store, etc.

The store trades Monday to Sunday and it is essential that the successful candidate is flexible to work within these hours.

We are looking for someone with flair and ideas, who enjoys sales and promotions, hitting and exceeding targets.

If you have all of the skills stated above for the role of Retail Store Manager and feel the need for a fresh challenge, email your CV today.

In this role, you will be responsible leading the entire recruitment process and closely partnering with HR, Business and Recruiting colleagues in order identify, to qualify and attract the best talent for adidas.

As the Recruitment Partner for Retail, you will focus on recruitment mandates for Europe Retail Stores, in addition to driving strategic talent acquisition topics within Europe Retail. You will support Retail leadership teams in the recruitment process within their own teams.

As a Recruitment Partner for Retail, you will be responsible for managing the entire recruitment process from sourcing, screening, interviewing, to offer stage. You will have a true passion for engaging with candidates and hiring teams and delivering exceptional candidate experience and recruitment services.

Your business acumen, passion for recruiting and a genuine commitment to thinking outside of the box are core skills needed in this role.

In your role, you will partner closely with your hiring teams to develop functional recruiting strategies and act as an expert recruiting partner to HR and business within Europe retail.

You will leverage adidas' local sourcing hubs and work closely with recruiting and sourcing colleagues to share candidates and roles to encourage a collaborative hiring process.

Maintaining an 'always on' approach you will continuously utilize various channels to attract the best talent including proactive outreach to passive candidates for every search, proactive outreach and passive candidates.

MANCHESTER:

You'll be joining our Stockport Head office, home to 18 showrooms, our Conference Centre, staff Wellness Hub, a truly state-of-the-art gym - fully loaded with Peloton bikes & every piece of gym equipment you can imagine. An indoor astroturf pitch, chat boxes & creative corners creative spaces. Our Stockport team consists of over 350 adidas employees, working across Sports Marketing, Brand, Visual Merchandising, Marketing Activations, Culture Marketing, Sales, P, Communities, Digital Sales, & Trend.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the entire recruitment process including requisition approval, hiring manager briefing, job advertising, candidate sourcing, application review, candidate screening, interview strategy, and offer process and continuously work with the hiring teams to identify opportunities to improve the process.
• Leverage relevant advertising resources and apply other relevant candidate marketing strategies to create local, regional and global awareness (if needed) in order to attract qualified applications for key roles within your area of responsibility.
• Leverage candidate databases (internal and external) in addition to other sourcing channels (university, competitive research, job fairs, social) to identify prospective candidates to create awareness and invite them to apply for open positions including cold calling prospects.
• Screening resumes and conducting initial phone screens to assess qualifications as well as suitability for role, followed by in-depth interviews evaluating skills, experience and culture add.
• Build, engage and maintain pre-qualified as well as prospective candidate pools of strong former candidates and new candidates within the functional area that your support.
• Partner with recruiting and sourcing colleagues to share candidates and jobs to encourage a collaborative hiring process.
• Continuously identify new candidate pools and leverage existing resources and various channels, such as social media, job boards, referrals and networking, to proactively identify passive candidates to create awareness and proactively reach out to them.
• Provide guidance to the hiring teams throughout the recruitment process and frequently update them on the status of the process.
• Advocating for and driving a diverse and inclusive recruitment strategy.
• Conduct weekly check-ins with active candidates and hiring managers throughout the entire recruiting process for each role.
• Own responsibility for candidate and hiring manager experience results and drives standards to ensure a quality performance against all standards.
• Effectively utilize comprehensive knowledge of adidas brand and adidas Group offerings, benefits, comp strategies, and programs to market adidas and the adidas Group as an Employer of Choice.
• Lead additional recruitment initiatives as needed.
• Plan and participate in strategic planning meetings with functional/market leadership and key business partners of all levels to understand current and upcoming requirements in order to build a strategy on effective recruitment activities for positions within your area of responsibility.
• Conduct quarterly review meetings with business leaders and key business partners to provide an overview of recruiting achievements as well as opportunities to improve hiring performance moving forward.
• Support retail teams with TA upskilling, trainings, best practices, hiring events, assessment centers, toolkits roll out.
• In partnership with HR and Legal, be an advocate for Retail leadership to ensure all interviewing and hiring practices are aligned with TA policy and local and federal regulations.
• Drive strategic talent strategies with Retail Leadership in partnership with HR to help drive proactive building of candidate pipelines within retail stores and teams.
• Actively participate in retail events including the following but limited to: Retail Sales Meetings, Store Visits, Hiring Events, District and Regional market meetings.
• Participate in onboarding trainings for any new hires within Retail leadership to conduct training on TA topics.
• Ability to flex schedule based on business demand to accommodate hiring needs.
• Utilize recruitment systems effectively following key standards, documenting key actions, recommending improvements and ensuring all data is accurate for reporting purposes.
• Apply and adapt broader talent acquisition strategies (employer branding, internal recruiting, diversity, etc.) within your designated function or market.
• Act as a key point of contact to support the implementation of global initiatives within your designated function or market.

Key Relationships:

• Human Resources Business Partners
• Broader Human Resources Business Partners
• Retail Leadership
• Broader Talent Acquisition and Talent teams

Measures of success:

• Speed of hire
• Candidate and hiring manager experience
• Diversity of hire
• Internal hire ratio
• Quality of hire
• Proactive sourcing and talent pool conversions

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 4-6 years' experience in international/global recruiting, leading local, international and global recruitment mandates for all level candidates through a broad range of sourcing channels (including proactive outreach).
• Specific expertise/experience recruiting for Retail business strongly preferred.
• Industry experience and deep knowledge of the footwear, apparel and/or retail industry.
• Experienced working in large, international/global matrix company.
• Experience working with vendors and managing relationships and driving results through collaboration
• Demonstrated track record of driving end2end, holistic recruitment mandates (including sourcing, assessing and hiring talent in volume roles and global recruiting initiatives (i.e. proactive recruiting, internal recruiting, diversity, etc.) to achieve hiring goals.
• Experienced in offer negotiation, awareness of local legislation and employment market/compensation trends.
• International experience, having worked on projects in multiple geographies.
• Knowledgeable about managing diversity & inclusion from talent acquisition perspective.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English + local language

Why adidas?

• Leading pension scheme, performance related bonus, 25 days holiday + bank holidays, Bupa health insurance & Westfield cash plan, generous employee discount and world-class gym facilities on-site at Manchester HQ or Gym contributions for our London colleagues.

AT ADIDAS WE HAVE A WINNING CULTURE. BUT TO WIN, PHYSICAL POWER IS NOT ENOUGH. JUST LIKE ATHLETES OUR EMPLOYEES NEED MENTAL STRENGTH IN THEIR GAME. WE FOSTER THE ATHLETE'S MINDSET THROUGH A SET OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE WANT TO ENABLE AND DEVELOP IN OUR PEOPLE AND THAT ARE AT THE CORE OF OUR UNIQUE COMPANY CULTURE: THIS IS HOW WE WIN WHILE PLAYING FAIR.

COURAGE: Speak up when you see an opportunity; step up when you see a need.

OWNERSHIP: Pick up the ball. Be proactive, take responsibility and follow-through.

INNOVATION: Elevate to win. Be curious, test and learn new and better ways of doing things.

TEAMPLAY: Win together. Work collaboratively and cultivate a shared mindset.

INTEGRITY: Play by the rules. Hold yourself and others accountable to our company's standards.

RESPECT: Value all players. Display empathy, be inclusive and show dignity to all.

AT ADIDAS, WE STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT EMBEDDING DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION (DEI) INTO OUR CULTURE AND TALENT PROCESSES GIVES OUR EMPLOYEES A SENSE OF BELONGING AND OUR BRAND A REAL COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE.

– CULTURE STARTS WITH PEOPLE, IT STARTS WITH YOU –

BY RECRUITING TALENT AND DEVELOPING OUR PEOPLE TO REFLECT THE RICH DIVERSITY OF OUR CONSUMERS AND COMMUNITIES, WE FOSTER A CULTURE OF INCLUSION THAT ENGAGES OUR EMPLOYEES AND AUTHENTICALLY CONNECTS OUR BRAND WITH OUR CONSUMERS.

JOB TITLE:

Recruitment Partner, Talent Acquisition Retail, Stockport

BRAND:

LOCATION:

Stockport

TEAM:

People & Culture

STATE:

COUNTRY/REGION:

GB

CONTRACT TYPE:

Full time

NUMBER:

DATE:

Sep 17, 2025

Role Summary

The role of a Customer Support Analyst is varied. It includes the day-to-day management and resolution of support calls, being involved in customer implementation work and supporting other internal business departments as required.

Main Job Tasks and Responsibilities

• Respond to and follow up customer support calls (1st, 2nd and 3rd line support)
• Identify, diagnose and resolve customer and project issues / requests
• Support and be involved in customer project work as needed
• Update internal systems with regards to work activity and any required documentation

Key Tasks

• To investigate reported incidents/problems with BCP packages
• To provide help and advice to customers in the use of BCP package software
• Self-education within required application areas to a high standard
• To ensure customers are informed of progress on all issues
• To manage and prioritise own outstanding issues list
• Application deployment and implementation tasks carried out both remotely and on site

Additional Duties

• Liaise with internal departments to progress projects and or the resolution of customer issues
• Undertake customer project work under the guidance of project managers and implementers
• Be required to work on customers’ sites from time to time including but not limited to training sessions and system run throughs
• Be required to provide out of hours telephone support for customers from time to time
• Perform other duties from time to time as required

Qualifications and experience

• PC literate with good knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Problem solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in a team and independently
• Must live within an hour's drive of Stockport

Responsible to: Customer Services Manager