Fresh Food Manager

More About The Role
From a Bradford market stall to one of the UK's largest supermarkets, we are proud to be the Yorkshire food retailer serving customers across the UK over almost 500 stores and through a home delivery service.
At Morrisons, we’re proud to be The Market Street Grocer. We do things differently. We don't just move boxes from trucks to shelves; we are food makers and shopkeepers. From our skilled butchers and bakers to our vibrant counters and fresh produce displays, providing honest, high-quality, fresh food is at the very heart of what we do. We love what we do, and we want you to love it too.
As a Fresh Food Manager, you’ll be the custodian of our famous Market Street and fresh departments. This isn’t a sit behind a desk kind of job; you’ll be right out there on the floor, working alongside our craft specialists, ensuring our displays look spectacular, and keeping our fresh food looking irresistible.
Reporting into the Store Manager, you’ll take full ownership of the preparation, presentation, and commercial performance of all fresh and counter departments. Your main objective is to ensure impeccable product quality, outstanding availability, and market-leading standards, while coaching your team to deliver the friendly, expert service that keeps our regulars coming back week after week.
What you'll be doing day-to-day:
* Leading with Passion: Inspiring, coaching, and developing a team of craft specialists (butchers, bakers, fishmongers) and fresh food colleagues to take pride in what they do.
* Driving Fresh Excellence: Ensuring breath-taking visual merchandising on our counters and produce beds, keeping food looking fresh, appealing, and beautifully legally compliant.
* Managing the Numbers: Taking sharp responsibility for your departments' sales, cold-chain integrity, intricate stock control, and tight labour budgets. Fresh food moves fast, so managing waste and markdown strategy is key to a profitable operation.
* Keeping it Safe: Maintaining the highest standards of food safety, hygiene, and temperature control (keeping those Food Hygiene Ratings top-tier across all preparation environments).
* Putting Customers First: Encouraging your team to share their food passion and expertise with customers, creating a bustling, authentic market-day atmosphere.
More About You
You don’t just love food; you understand how to run a complex, fast-moving, high-volume fresh retail operation. You're a people person with a real appreciation for food craftsmanship, an eye for exceptional standards, and the commercial sharp-wittedness required to manage short shelf-life products.
We’re looking for someone who has:
* Proven leadership experience: From a fast-paced retail fresh department, high-volume food production, or commercial catering/kitchen environment.
* A strong commercial mindset: You understand how to manage yield, drive counter sales, spot seasonal trends, and keep a relentless grip on food waste and shrinkage.
* A hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves attitude: You love being in the thick of it on the shop floor, thrives on the morning set-up rush, and takes pride in a perfectly dressed counter.
* Brilliant communication skills: With the ability to lead skilled tradespeople, coach general assistants, and engage passionately with our customers.
* A genuine pride: For delivering top-quality, fresh British produce and a memorable shopping experience.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
More About Us
At Morrisons, we’ve always done things a bit differently. Our story started all the way back in 1899 as a humble egg and butter stall in Bradford market. 127 years later, we’re one of the UK’s leading supermarkets, but we’ve never lost that independent shopkeeper spirit.
At just under 500 stores across the UK, our retail colleagues work as one team to feed the nation and provide a memorable shopping experience. We’re a team of over 90,000 down-to-earth, hard-working people. We care about fresh food, friendly service, and looking after each other.
What truly sets us apart is that we don’t just move boxes from trucks to shelves, we are food makers and shopkeepers. As the UK's second largest food manufacturer, we source directly from British farmers, process meat in our own abattoirs, and prepare fresh food right in front of our customers. From our vibrant store displays to the hot meals served in our Cafes, we take massive pride in feeding the nation honest, high-quality, fresh food.
As we own our own supply chain, including manufacturing sites, flower hubs, and logistics networks, the career paths here are varied. We are deeply committed to learning and development, ensuring that if you have the drive to progress, we will give you the tools, courses, and support to go as far as you want to.
We don't overcomplicate things. We work hard, we look out for each other, have a laugh along the way, and take immense pride in the food we sell and the communities we serve