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Trading Team Leader

Are you looking for an opportunity to lead, inspire, and drive high performance within a dynamic retail environment? At Morrisons, we are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Trading Team Leader to ensure our store delivers outstanding service and operational excellence. As a Trading Team Leader, you will lead and motivate your team to deliver top-tier store standards, ensuring our shelves are stocked and ready for customers. You will also:
  • Maintain compliance with Health & Safety, legal standards, and all internal policies to keep our team and customers safe.
  • Coordinate day-to-day communication within the replenishment department and work closely with managers and colleagues to meet sales and profit goals.
  • Develop and multi-skill your team, providing the tools, guidance, and coaching they need to thrive.
  • Drive exceptional customer satisfaction by delivering excellent customer service and building strong relationships with both customers and colleagues.
  • Use data analysis to identify opportunities and risks, then take action with the Trading Manager to drive continuous improvement.
  • Minimise waste, monitor stock handling, and ensure products are stored and rotated correctly.

About you

We're looking for enthusiastic and authentic leaders to join our store teams who are passionate about providing amazing customer services every day. Ideally, you will have:
  • Proven experience in delivering exceptional customer service and building lasting relationships.
  • Strong leadership skills with a passion for coaching and developing teams to achieve high performance.
  • A sound operational and technical knowledge of the department with the ability to solve problems and support your team effectively.
  • Energised by customer interaction and always looking for ways to enhance the shopping experience.
  • Able to plan, organise, and manage your workload effectively while ensuring all company policies are followed.

About us

Shopkeepers for over 100 years, we love providing our customers with a great shopping experience they won’t find anywhere else.

At just under 500 stores across the UK, our retail colleagues work as one team to provide plenty of food essentials, a great service and a buzz people enjoy. It’s why our customers keep coming back for more.

The UK’s 4th largest supermarket, we provide great value for money and good quality fresh food and groceries to over 11 million customers every week. Our focus on freshness makes us stand out as we prepare more fresh food in-store than any other supermarket. It’s challenging. It’s fast-paced. But from Market Street to checkout our friendly team loves going above and beyond to bring our customers what they want.

At Morrisons we believe in investing in our colleagues and industry-leading training programmes. We provide our colleagues with the opportunities they need to make it to the top. Many of our store managers started out on the shop floor. They’ve been there and done that. It’s how they know how to support our colleagues and help our customers so well.


Reward & Benefits

We've highlighted below some of our standard Rewards & Benefits that our colleagues receive.  Please note, some roles come with additional benefits such as bonus, company car allowance etc. you'll find further details where applicable in our adverts, or you can speak to someone in our resourcing team for more information. 

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Plan your journey

Anniesland, Glasgow, United Kingdom, G13 1HY
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Learning and development is at the heart of our business

As you can imagine, Morrisons is a busy place to be. There’s lots going on - processes, changes, new initiatives, different ways of working. And that’s just on a Monday morning.

It means there’s a lot to learn. But learning isn’t just about understanding what’s involved in day-to-day workloads. It’s also about growing and developing in your career, too. That’s why we’ve made sure that learning and development is at the heart of our business. We’re here to make sure everyone has everything they need to be their best - and to go as far as they want.

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Our DE&I workstreams

We're proud to have a diverse group of colleagues working here. We want everyone to feel valued in an environment where we promote respect, where they feel a sense of belonging, and feel celebrated as individuals.

These are the moments that matter to them - and they matter to us, too.

Everyone is welcome to get involved in our Ethnic Diversity, Ability, LGBTQ+, Women, and Family & Carers workstreams, too. They’re designed to help us better reflect our customers, colleagues, and communities so we can become an even more inclusive business.

As a business, we love bringing people together. And we think it’s one of the biggest reasons to be part of our team.

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Our Process

We've outlined below what our typical process looks like, this can vary slightly depending upon the role or team you've applied for. Our goal is to provide a positive and accessible experience for all applicants, ensuring everyone has the support they need to showcase their best selves.

Our resourcing team are on hand to help with any questions about your application and you can reach them by e-mailing resourcing@morrisonsplc.co.uk.

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    Find an opportunity that's right for you

    Once you've found a role that's right for you, you can apply via this site. If it's your first time applying with us then we'll need all your essential information and we might ask you to upload your most recent CV. If you've applied for roles with us before then we should recognise you and you won't need to share these details again, unless something has changed that you need to update us on.

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    Online Assessment (Customer Assistant roles)

    After your application, we might send you an e-mail and ask you to complete an online assessment. This is typically a situation judgement test where we'll ask you ten questions with mutliple choice answers and takes around 10-15 minutes to complete. The questions will give you a feel for the types of scenarios you might encounter working in our stores - think customer first.

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    Let's find out more

    For some of our stores and site roles, if you've been successful with your application we might just e-mail and ask you to book a slot for your interview. For other roles our resourcing team will get in touch with you to find out a bit more about you and why you applied. They'll also answer any questions you might have about us and the role. After all, it's a two way process!

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    Interview

    Our interviews are typically face to face but can sometimes be virtual. Don't worry, we'll advise either way. Your interview can differ depending on the role or team. Part of the interview may include some competency questions against our Ways of Working (listed below).

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    Final Stage

    With some of our roles there might be a second interveiw. This tends to be for roles in our Head Office and some salaried positions across our stores and sites. As part of this second stage, we might ask you to complete a task, such as a SWOT analysis or something similar, and present it back during the interview. This helps us understand your approach and thinking about the role.  

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    Decision

    Our resourcing team or the store or site you've applied to will be in touch with you as soon as they can to let you know the outcome.  If you've been successful we'll share the details of our offer with you and follow up with everything you need on e-mail. 

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Ways of Working

Our Ways of Working are like a set of values that define our core beliefs, guide decision-making, and shape our culture and how we operate. 

Customer First - I care about our customers and do everything I can to meet their needs 

Teamwork - I always play my part in the team, and I recognise we go further together 

Working Freely in a Framework - I’m trusted to make my own decisions and encouraged to improve things for customers and for us 

Care and Respect - We care more and try harder; for each other, for everyone around Morrisons  

Listen and Respond - I take the time to talk with and listen to colleagues and customers, and always do the right thing for the them 

Grow Sales, Low Cost - I understand my part in the end-to-end process and look for ways to drive improvement

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Life at Morrisons offers more than you imagine.

We’re a Yorkshire based food manufacturer and retailer, and our story began with a simple market stall in Bradford all the way back in 1899. Today, we’re still just as committed to delivering on our promise of 'freshness from farm to fork' for every customer. It’s why we’ve grown to become one of the UK’s leading supermarkets. And, with 90,000 colleagues, nearly 500 stores, and 11 million customers every week, there are now more reasons to join us than you can imagine.

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MorriStories

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    Charlotte

    Replenishment Manager

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    My goal is to become an operations manager. I have done the majority of the departmental roles now, so I feel that is the next step.

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    Connor

    Operations Manager

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    I knew there was a lot of career progression at Morrisons and I've been given fantastic opportunities to develop into Managerial roles.

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  • Nancy headshot in bakery uniform

    Nancy

    Customer Assistant

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    My favourite thing about working here is making people happy through our service. I have such wonderful colleagues who can really make me laugh. It's great fun!

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    Jake

    Store Manager

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    We are a customer centric business and everything that we try and do has customers and colleagues at its heart.

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    Dan

    Customer Assistant

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    All of my colleagues support me in loads of ways and make the day go faster.

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