We're an independent family business with a great team of people. We have an excellent workplace culture with a focus on fun and wellbeing whilst we work hard to get the job done together. We’re proud to have won national awards including Best Workplaces 2023, Best Workplaces for Wellbeing 2023, Best Workplaces for Women 2023, Best Workplaces 2024 and Best Workplaces (Retail, Hospitality & Leisure) 2024.
We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Store Manager who can bring our Webbs values to life every single day: Genuine, Caring and Experts, at our Frilford garden centre.
Our Values:
Genuine
You lead with authenticity and a love of the natural world. You care deeply about quality, provenance and helping customers make informed choices. You create an environment that’s warm, honest and grounded in nature.
Caring
Everything you do, you do with care. You nurture your team, build lasting connections with customers and support the local community. You create memorable moments and take your responsibility to people and the planet seriously.
Experts
You bring a depth of knowledge and a passion for learning — about horticulture, food, retail and people. You empower customers and colleagues with insight, experience and confidence.
Duties include:
- Set exceptional retail standards: Guide department managers across Seasonal, Leisure, Gardening, Plants & Outdoors and Pets. Keep shelves full, standards flawless and commercial targets on track.
- Create a standout customer experience: From entrance to exit, you’ll ensure Millets Farm feels welcoming, joyful and unmistakably ‘Webbs’. You build a store where people feel comfortable, understood and delighted.
- Champion and grow your team: You foster a supportive, trusting culture where people feel valued, encouraged and proud. You develop skills, celebrate strengths and lead with empathy and clarity.
- Shape smarter, modern ways of working: You embed new systems, maximise business intelligence and make sure the store runs efficiently, collaboratively and ready for future growth.
- Keep colleagues & customers safe: You lead safe, well?drilled operations — including opening/closing routines, emergency protocols and contractor management.
About you:
You’re an experienced large?format Store Manager who thrives in a premium environment. You lead with heart and clarity, listen deeply and coach constructively. You influence through trust and bring energy, curiosity and professionalism to everything you do.
The successful candidate must have:
- Experience of large format store management with high turnover, ideally at a high-quality positioned retailer.
- IT literate in office and working knowledge of EPOS systems. Tech savvy is a major plus.
- Strong leadership skills with the capacity to listen and respond.
- The ability to influence, listen and understand the external perspective to inspire and think broadly about new ways of doing things.
- Strong coaching skills. Must be able to give feedback to ensure common ways of working.
- A passion for spotting, driving talent and creating a successful team culture.
- Ability to resolve challenges and build trust between the full store team.
- The ability to set clear objectives that link directly to each department, which are aligned with Webbs overall business objectives and brand values.
- The power to create a culture that fosters and values collaboration.
- Broad thinking and willingness to accept opinions, beliefs or behaviours that are different from your own.
- Understands the dynamics of working for a fast-paced family-owned business that has a heritage brand, in a modern age, and strong community ties.
This is a full time and permanent position, working on average 39.5 hours per week on a 2 week rota. This involves working 4 weekdays plus every alternate weekend (you would work 4 days one week and have one weekday plus the weekend off, then you work 6 days the following week, including both weekend days).
The role is based at our store in Frilford and so you must live within a reasonable commuting distance.
Our reward package includes:
• Salary up to £51,000 DOE
• 25% colleague discount (most categories)
• 50% restaurant discount
• 33 days holiday (inc. bank holidays)
• Pension & life cover
• Healthcare scheme after probation
• Free parking
• A workplace recognised nationally as a Best Workplace
If you'd like to join our fun, friendly Webbs team then please click apply now or send your CV to [email protected]
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Job Types: Permeant, Full Time.
Salary: £51,000.00 DOE. Salary will meet national minimum wage for age.
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