Cafés jobs in Stroud

The Role

This is an exciting new position, managing the shop floor, five days a week at our Multi-Award-Winning Farm Shop, in the Cotswolds.

The purpose of the role is to improve the shop aesthetics, product availability, team productivity & customer spend, whilst reducing wastage, shrinkage and variable costs; therefore achieving increased margins, increased productivity and ultimately increased profitability.

You will be responsible for the retail departments: Fruit & Veg, Plants & flowers, Deli, Food Hall, Gift Yurt, Seasonal Cabin, Iceland, Dog Shop, Bottle shop, Merchandising, Goods In & Warehouse, Purchasing and Accounts.

With a direct report to the Managing Director, you will be a particularly effective communicator who will always respond to them and the Finance Manager, in a timely manner.

Candidates with a genuine understanding and passion for seasonal and sustainably produced food, gift & plant products, will be at a distinct advantage for this role.

The successful candidate & their Team will deliver:

• Uncompromisingly brilliant customer service
• Skilled margin Management
• Relentless stock Management
• Firm but fair team management, nurturing the brilliant ones, always following things through with the others
• Polite sales Management
• Well-considered purchasing

We already have an absolutely first rate Assistant Farm Shop Manager who spends half the week in the office undertaking the ordering and producing the rotas and, on your days, off, she will be on the shop floor, managing the team. To enable management on the shop floor seven days a week, your days off need to be Sunday and Wednesday.

You will work closely with the other department Heads and (other than Butchery) you will ultimately be responsible for managing all of the FoH and BoH teams at the retail end of our site, leaving the Hospitality Manager & Assistant Hospitality Manager to run their end of the site.

On that basis, this new role requires at least ten years’ experience at a managerial level, ideally in an independent artisanal food retail establishment.

The position is very much operational on the shop floor, serving customers, so first and foremost you will have razor sharp attention to detail and will keep our unique and aesthetically pleasing retail spaces looking perfect for each new customer arrival of the day.

Remuneration

In addition to staff discounts in store (20%) and from the kitchen (50%), a salary of £40,000 to £45,000, for a 45 hour week, dependent on the ideal candidate.

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Our Team

We aim to grow a team that are:

• Jolly Nice - Friendly, personable, supportive.
• Sustainable - Genuinely want to be more sustainable in all they do.
• Self-Motivated - Use initiative, want to develop, learn and grow.
• Professional - Will work hard towards our goals, willing to help in every situation and at pace during service.
• Engaged - Eager to engage in the role, engage with our customers and engage with our ethos.

Introducing Jolly Nice

Jolly Nice was born out of a love for delicious food, regenerative farming and the need for change. We provide a key platform for locally sourced produce. Supporting farmers, growers, artisans and micro businesses, that share our vision for a brighter future of food resilience, community and economy. With nature friendly farming at the centre of our ethos.

Founded by a farming family, our multi-award winning Farmshop, Kitchen, Cafe & Bar and cutting edge Drive Through in the heart of the Cotswolds, halfway between Cirencester and Stroud.

We’ve grown organically, and what was once a derelict petrol station is now a handsome hotchpotch of wooden buildings, locally crafted yurts, green barns and plenty of outdoor space, with a few miniature donkeys dotted about.

Rebecca Wilson, our Founder and Managing Director, was once a 'proper' farmer herself and saw first-hand the problems that intensive industrial farming inflicted upon our environment, animals, communities and health. She built the business from the ground up with the purpose of providing a much needed route to market for farmers and producers that shared our values, committing to pay a fair price so we can work towards healthy, more resilient food systems and a sustainable food economy.

Rebecca’s daughter Harriet found a love for making delicious food in her teens and went on to create our award winning ice cream using organic milk from her father’s pasture fed herd of traditional rare breed Shorthorn cows, churned with the best ingredients she could get her hands on. Our family recipes and ethos for quality continue to live through the business and we now have a brilliant team of chefs producing an exceptional range of products, from scratch, every day.

Jolly Nice now represents a smorgasbord of fantastic, diverse, local, independent, artisan, seasonal, free range, organically grown, zero dig, regeneratively farmed, pasture fed, biodynamic, Bcorp, small batch, hand crafted, wild, foraged, and award winning produce.

Pay: £40,000.00-£45,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person