Store Manager at Clarks in Lancaster, England, GB

Store Manager
Join us at Clarks, where we’ve been creating quality footwear for over 200 years. We’re looking for an inspiring Store Manager to lead our Lancaster store, deliver an exceptional shopping experience, and drive results through your team.

About the role
To manage a Clarks store in line with the business objectives. To lead and motivate the store team in order to maximise sales and profit, delivering set targets and KPIs. Responsible for the day to day running of the store, focussing on opportunities to enhance the consumer experience through delivery of the highest retail standards and team behaviours.

What you’ll do
• Lead and motivate the team to achieve targets and deliver the required consumer experience.
• Manage controllable costs and efficiencies to proactively improve profitability.
• Responsible for the management of the sales floor during trading hours.
• Regularly review commercial opportunities and consumer feedback to improve sales and take appropriate action.
• Lead implementation of the trading plan, including visual merchandising, to ensure the store and team are ready for all trading periods.
• Plan staffing levels against trading plan and manage rotas.
• Ensure all employment changes and relevant forms are completed to ensure team members are paid accurately and on time, including ensuring capability of management team to deliver.
• Recruit, develop and train a high performing and highly engaged team.
• Manage Health and Safety procedures in store including ensuring all team members understand their responsibilities.
• Manage all Employee Relations issues (including underperformance issues) fairly and in accordance with Company Policies and Procedures.
• Regularly review own performance and maintain a personal development plan.
• Manage cash, stock and security procedures to Company standards, including ensuring all team members understand their responsibilities.
• Ensure store compliance with all company and legal requirements, including visual merchandising guidelines, PCI, data protection, right to work, etc.
• Drive the implementation and delivery of key/new initiatives within store to achieve the objectives.
• Ensures the store administration processes are carried out effectively, with audit targets achieved.
• Ensures the effective management of the stock flow process to maximise sales and minimise losses
Key Outputs/Results:
• Store to achieve required performance standards on KPIs such as sales, multi-sales, conversion and consumer satisfaction.
• Store P & L is monitored monthly and, in conjunction with the Area Sales Manager, actions are taken to minimise controllable costs in order to achieve budgeted contribution.
• Floor control is delivered consistently, ensuring all consumers have a great brand experience.
• Reports and data provided are used to drive sales growth in-store to achieve budget.
• All trading periods (including Sale and BTS) are effectively planned in advance and executed correctly to maximise sales.
• Team availability is matched to sales and/or footfall to ensure it matches consumer demand.
• All HR documentation (including payroll) is completed correctly and sent on time to the relevant department to ensure correct payment of team members.
• All Company recruitment tools are used effectively to recruit all team members to ensure fair and legal recruitment of individuals with the correct skill set.
• All team members are trained to deliver product knowledge through the appropriate company selling models.
• All Health and Safety training, checks and record keeping are completed on time and correctly ensuring compliance with Company Policies and relevant legislation.
• All employee issues are dealt with in a timely fashion ensuring compliance with Company Policies and relevant legislation, communicating with HR, where appropriate, to seek advice and guidance.
• Maintain an up-to-date development plan and complete all performance review documentation before and after formal reviews, taking action accordingly.
• All security, cash, stock and administration procedures are followed.
• Record keeping and training for all team members are completed on time and correctly to ensure compliance with Company Policies.
• All relevant compliance of Company Policies and legal requirements are achieved and trained to team members where relevant.
• All team members receive regular communication of Company strategy and new initiatives.
• All team members are trained on Company Strategy and new initiatives, where relevant, and monitoring of implementation undertaken.
• Store Audits are prepared and successfully completed with company minimum standards achieved in stock accuracy, odds, financial variance and administration as detailed in Company Policies and training.

What we’re looking for
You’re a confident, hands-on leader with proven retail management experience and a track record of achieving targets. You know how to motivate a team, communicate clearly, and make sound commercial decisions. You’re organised, adaptable, and able to balance delivering results with creating a welcoming environment for customers and colleagues alike.

You’ll bring
Essential Knowledge:
• Stock Management
• Visual Merchandising
• Consumer Experience
• Managing Budgets
• Recruitment and Training

Technical Skills:
• IT proficient - able to use a range of systems to manage in-store activity
• Planning and Prioritising
• Commerciality
• Motivating and Leading a Team
• Well-developed Communication Skills

Successful Experience:
• Significant experience in retail management including leading a team, delivering consumer experience and managing store budgets.
• Delivering or exceeding sales and targets.
• Significant leadership experience including managing direct and indirect reports, coaching, giving feedback and developing team members.
• Managing staffing levels to sales.

Why join us?
At Clarks, you’ll be part of a brand with heritage, craftsmanship, and style at its core. We offer great training, career progression, and the chance to make your mark in a global business.

About Clarks
Two brothers, a small town, and shoes that changed the world. Based in Somerset, England, Clarks has redefined shoemaking since its foundation in 1825, when James and Cyrus Clark made a slipper from sheepskin off-cuts and forever transformed the future of footwear.
Sparking revolutions and defining generations, our archive of over 25,000 shoes includes the inimitable Clarks Desert Boot™ and Clarks Wallabee™. And every pair we design today uses the same ground-breaking combination of invention and craftsmanship that started it all.
Progress is woven into our DNA. Whether we’re pioneering cutting-edge comfort technologies, championing social change, or working on trailblazing collaborations with cultural icons and KOLs, we’re always striding forward.
Join us in 2025 as we celebrate 200 years of giving people the freedom to move comfortably, proudly commemorating our legacy of craft, innovation, and impact – and looking boldly ahead, too.

If you’re ready to lead from the front and create an exceptional store experience, apply today.

This document describes the general nature and level of work only. It is not designed to cover an exhaustive list of all skills, activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Other activities, duties, and responsibilities may be added at any time. This description may be changed at the company’s discretion at any time, with or without notice.