Department Manager – Showrooms, B&Q, Cork

About the role

Full time – 39 hours per week

Permanent

B&Q Cork

We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better. Every day, we give our millions of customers the ideas, advice, tools, and confidence they need to create a home they’ll love. Join us as a Showroom Manager and you’ll help some of their boldest kitchen and bathroom ideas take shape.

Key responsibilities

In a role that’s as much about inspiration as it is about sales, being a Showroom Manager means understanding that great showrooms come from great teams. You’ll lead by example to build an inclusive culture for your colleagues & your customers. You’ll coach and train your team, enabling them to recommend the right finance, products, and installation options to fulfil customer projects. By managing people well every day & role modelling great customer service, you’ll support their personal growth & development. Relationships are key in this role as you’ll also oversee the recruitment & induction of our installers to ensure the best level of service for our customers.

Required skills & experience

A natural leader who can motivate and support a team in a fast-paced and constantly changing sales environment. You’ve got a sharp commercial mind as well as plenty of customer service experience and you know how to promote products, services & installation options. You’ll be happy to expand your skills by using new technology and learning new ways of working & championing this with your team. You’re also flexible enough to work on a rota that includes weekends, evenings, and bank holidays.

What’s in it for me?

As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award-winning pension scheme, 7 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more! We also provide generous breaks to make sure you’re refreshed and able to perform at your best. So dependent on the duration of your shift and eligible break entitlement, we will pay you for the time you are on your break, so put your feet up on us!

As part of a great team, you’ll be supported to grow and encouraged to explore new career directions within the business and the wider group. And, because you’ll be inspiring great things for our customers and the whole business, you’ll do work worth caring about.