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  • Financial account

    Milton Keynes
    Temporary
    £50,000 - £55,000 per year

    This temporary Financial Accountant role in Milton Keynes requires a detail-oriented professional to support the accounting and finance department within the retail industry. The position involves managing financial records and ensuring compliance with accounting standards and regulations.

    • Immediate start
    • Temp to Perm
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  • Management Accountant

    Derbyshire
    Permanent
    £40,000 - £50,000 per year

    The Management Accountant in Derbyshire will play a key role in supporting financial operations within the accounting & finance department.

    This role in the retail industry requires strong analytical skills and a keen eye for detail to ensure accurate financial reporting and support decision-making processes.

    • Fantastic opportunity to join a growing organisation.
    • Permanent Management Accountant position.
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  • Pharmacy Manager - Thornton Cleveleys

    Thornton-Cleveleys
    Permanent
    £55,000 - £65,000 per year

    This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Pharmacy Manager to lead and manage a healthcare team within a retail environment based in Thornton Cleveleys. The role requires a strong understanding of pharmaceutical operations and a commitment to delivering exceptional patient care.

    • Ability to upskill development
    • Working in a supportive team
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  • Senior Management Accountant

    Bournemouth
    Interim
    £45,000 - £50,000 per year

    The Senior Management Accountant will play a key role in supporting the accounting and finance function of an established business. This position involves financial analysis, reporting, and ensuring accurate and timely delivery of key financial data to stakeholders.

    • 12 Month FTC
    • Be available to start May 2026
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  • Senior FP&A analyst

    City of London
    Interim
    £54,000 - £63,000 per year

    The Senior FP&A Analyst will play a critical role in supporting the Accounting & Finance department by providing insightful financial analysis and driving performance improvements. This role requires a strong understanding of financial planning and analysis within the retail industry.

    • Commercial finance role in retail brand.
    • Business partnering focused role.
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  • Head of Financial Operations

    Manchester
    Permanent
    £70,000 - £80,000 per year

    Job Title: Head of Financial Operations
    Location: Manchester City Centre (Hybrid Working)
    Salary: Up to £80,000 per annum + Bonus
    Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time

    • Head of Financial Operations - Manchester City Centre
    • Well-established business offering hybrid working
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  • Social Media & SEO Specialist,

    Bishop's Stortford
    Permanent
    £35,000 - £40,000 per year

    This is an exciting opportunity for someone who loves creating standout content and optimising it to perform at the highest level.

    • Are you creative, data‑driven, and passionate about digital marketing?
    • Elevate their online presence, grow engagement, and drive organic traffic
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  • Area Sales Manager - Midlands and East Anglia

    Birmingham
    Permanent
    • Area Sales Manager covering the Midlands and East Anglia region
    • Managing and growing existing retail accounts to achieve and exceed sales targets
    • Area Sales Manager covering the Midlands and East Anglia region
    • Exciting Opportunity for an international brand within the consumer Sector
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  • Pharmacy - Bangor

    Bangor
    Permanent
    £50,000 - £60,000 per year

    This is an exciting opportunity for a Healthcare professional to join a leading Retail organisation as a Pharmacist. Based in Bangor, you will oversee pharmacy operations, ensuring a high standard of care and compliance.

    • Ability to develop furthermore in Pharmacy
    • A collaborative and supporting team
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  • Pharmacy - Plymstock

    Devon
    Permanent
    £50,000 - £60,000 per year

    This is an exciting opportunity for a Healthcare professional to join a leading Retail organisation as a Pharmacist. Based in Plymstock, you will oversee pharmacy operations, ensuring a high standard of care and compliance.

    • Ability to develop furthermore in Pharmacy
    • A collaborative and supporting team
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  • B2B Mid-Market Sales Exec - media licensing

    Eastbourne
    Permanent
    £31,000 - £36,000 per year
    Remote

    The Sales Exec will wwn the full sales cycle for prospects, from initial outreach to deal close. You will engage stakeholders and build compelling business cases that deliver long-term value. You will partner with marketing, sales ops and enablement to ensure a seamless buyer journey and maximise conversions.

    • you have a proven track record of outbound B2B sales
    • you have experience selling a licensing or SaaS product
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  • Pharmacy Manager - Skegness

    Skegness
    Permanent
    £50,000 - £60,000 per year

    This is an exciting opportunity for a Healthcare professional to join a leading Retail organisation as a Pharmacist Manager. Based in Skegness, you will oversee pharmacy operations, ensuring a high standard of care and compliance.

    • Ability to upskill to develop furthermore in Pharmacy
    • A collaborative and supporting team
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  • Assistant Accountant

    Cambridge
    Interim
    £30,000 - £35,000 per year

    We are seeking an Assistant Accountant to join a growing team within the retail industry. This role in Cambridge involves supporting the finance department with essential accounting tasks to ensure smooth financial operations.

    • Long term contract
    • Large reputable company with great benefits
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  • Pharmacy - Barrow

    Barrow-In-Furness
    Permanent
    £50,000 - £60,000 per year

    This is an exciting opportunity for a Healthcare professional to join a leading Retail organisation as a Pharmacist Manager. Based in Barrow, you will oversee pharmacy operations, ensuring a high standard of care and compliance.

    • Ability to be progress through training and development
    • Supportive team
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  • Pharmacy - Scarborough

    Scarborough
    Permanent
    £50,000 - £60,000 per year

    This is an exciting opportunity for a Healthcare professional to join a leading Retail organisation as a Pharmacist/ Pharmacy Manager. Based in Scarborough, you will oversee pharmacy operations, ensuring a high standard of care and compliance.

    • Ability to develop furthermore in Pharmacy
    • A collaborative and supporting team
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  • Cohens chemist - Flint

    Flint
    Permanent
    £50,000 - £60,000 per year

    We are looking for a dedicated and knowledgeable Pharmacy Manager to oversee daily operations in a retail healthcare environment. This role is based in Flint and offers a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact within the pharmacy sector.

    • Ability to train and develop furthermore.
    • Supportive and collaborative team
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  • Quality Assurance Coordinator

    Aylesford
    Temporary

    The Quality Assurance Coordinator will support the department within the Retail industry by ensuring compliance with quality standards and procedures. This temporary role in Aylesford requires strong attention to detail and a commitment to maintaining product quality.

    • 6am - 2pm Shift
    • Initial three month contract with potential to extend
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  • Pharmacy - Gainsborough

    Kingston Upon Hull
    Permanent
    £50,000 - £60,000 per year

    This is an excellent opportunity for a healthcare professional to join a leading retail organisation and play a key role in its healthcare department. The role is based in Gainsborough and involves delivering exceptional service while ensuring compliance with industry standards.

    • Ability to develop furthermore in Pharmacy
    • Supportive and collaborative team
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  • Aberaman

    Aberdare
    Permanent
    £50,000 - £60,000 per year

    This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate healthcare professional to join the retail industry in Aberaman as a key member of a healthcare department. The role will focus on delivering high-quality service and ensuring compliance with industry standards.

    • Supportive team
    • Ability to progress furthermore
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  • Pharmacist - Great Yarmouth

    Great Yarmouth
    Permanent
    £50,000 - £65,000 per year

    This is an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacist to make a real difference in the healthcare department of a retail environment. Based in Great Yarmouth, you will provide exceptional pharmaceutical care while ensuring compliance with all relevant regulations.

    • Flexible hours
    • Access to training and development to advance your career within pharmacy
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  • Pharmacy Manager - Skegness

    Skegness
    Permanent
    £55,000 - £65,000 per year

    This role involves managing the healthcare department within a retail setting, ensuring smooth operations and excellent service delivery. The position requires strong organisational skills and a focus on meeting customer needs while maintaining compliance standards.

    • Ability to develop and upskill furthermore
    • Supportive and collaborative team
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  • Pharmacy - Basingstoke

    Basingstoke
    Permanent
    £50,000 - £60,000 per year

    The role of a Pharmacist in Basingstoke involves overseeing healthcare services within a retail setting, ensuring the provision of high-quality pharmaceutical care. This permanent position requires a detail-oriented individual to manage daily operations and deliver excellent customer service.

    • Ability to develop and train furthermore
    • Supportive and collaborative team
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  • Warehouse Shift lead

    Shepton Mallet
    Permanent
    £36,000 - £39,000 per year

    The Warehouse Shift Lead will oversee the daily operations of the logistics department, ensuring efficiency and compliance with established processes. This role is ideal for someone with experience in managing teams within a fast-paced retail logistics environment.

    • Shift Manager - Earlies - Shepton Mallet
    • -Great opportunity to progress your career
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  • Cohens chemist - Denbigh

    Denbigh
    Permanent
    £50,000 - £55,000 per year

    This position is an excellent opportunity for a healthcare professional to lead and manage a retail pharmacy in Bolton. The role involves overseeing day-to-day operations, ensuring excellent customer service, and maintaining compliance within the healthcare industry.

    • A well established pharmacy
    • Clear growth and career progression
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  • Pharmacy Manager

    Pontypridd
    Permanent
    £55,000 - £65,000 per year

    We are seeking a driven and knowledgeable pharmacist to join a reputable retail organisation within the healthcare department in Wales. This permanent role offers an excellent opportunity to deliver high-quality pharmaceutical care in a customer-focused environment.

    • Training and career development
    • Fast growing independent pharmacy
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  • Multi-Skilled Engineer

    Coventry
    Permanent
    £49,680 - £49,680 per year

    We are on the hunt for a skilled and dedicated Multi-Skilled Engineer to join my clients Maintenance Department in Coventry. The ideal candidate will have a keen eye for detail and a passion for ensuring systems function at their peak within the retail industry.

    • Stable, successful Business
    • Progression Opportunities
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  • Multi-Skilled Engineer

    West Bromwich
    Permanent
    £49,480 - £49,680 per year

    We are on the hunt for a skilled and dedicated Multi-Skilled Engineer to join my clients Maintenance Department in West Bromwich. The ideal candidate will have a keen eye for detail and a passion for ensuring systems function at their peak within the retail industry.

    • Well known Company
    • Development Opportunities
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  • Sales Ledger Assistant 16 Month FTC

    Leeds
    Temporary
    £25,800 - £25,800 per year

    The role of a Sales Ledger Assistant involves managing and maintaining the sales ledger, ensuring accurate invoicing and timely payments. This is a 16-month fixed-term contract position based in Leeds within the retail industry.

    • 16 month Maternity cover position.
    • Thrive within a fast paced working environment where no two days are the same.
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  • Legal Counsel (Data Protection & Compliance)

    Dunstable
    Permanent
    £120,000 - £120,000 per year

    The Legal Counsel (Data Protection & Compliance) role offers an excellent opportunity to provide expert legal guidance on privacy and data protection matters within the business services industry. This permanent position requires a driven individual to ensure compliance with applicable regulations while supporting the legal department.

    • Legal Counsel (Data Protection & Compliance)
    • FTSE Listed Hospitality Brand
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  • Payroll Team Lead

    Watford
    Permanent
    £45,000 - £50,000 per year

    Great opportunity to join a highly productive, busy retail payroll team. This is a close-knit operation with end to end processing, team leader responsibility and system ownership.

    • Join a highly reputable brand!
    • Belong to a busy payroll function!
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A guide to retail jobs

Retail careers can vary greatly but all typically provide services to either both businesses and individual customers or specialise in products specific to one or the other. Retailers normally have their staff working in teams and those teams can be located within stores, an office, or even a warehouse. Working times are usually allocated on a shift basis and will vary depending on the specific products and/or services being provided. The type of products that retailers sell can vary, they may sell very specific products or offer a diverse range of merchandise. For example, a retailer might specialise in selling electronics, produce, entertainment or clothing while some larger stores might offer a mixture of these. Good customer service is a key part of any retail sales success and most retailers now have an online presence that bridges the gap between online sales and the high street shops.
Michael Page Retail & Fashion have forged strong relationships with our clients over the past 40 years. The jobs we recruit for range from positions within traditional stores to multiples and department stores, as well as multi-channel operations, online retailers, mail order and TV shopping channels, covering food, non-food and general merchandise.

Retail jobs we recruit

  • Assistant Store manager
  • Head of Merchandising
  • Buyer
  • Technologist - retail
  • Retail Store Manager
  • Merchandiser
  • Sales Advisor
  • Retail Customer Services Manger
  • Sales Consultant - retail

Key retail tasks

  • Greet customers as the first point of contact.
  • Deal with customer refunds.
  • Handle customer complaints.
  • Work within established guidelines, particularly with brands.
  • Receive and store stock deliveries.
  • Set up displays and POS material.
  • Assist customers in finding the products they are looking for.
  • Process cash and card payments.
  • Stock shelves with merchandise.
  • Report any problems or discrepancies.
  • Provide customers with advice and guidance on product selection.
  • Balance cash registers with receipts.

Key retail skills

As a retailer, good communication skills are a must when dealing with queries and executing a sale. If the customer can’t understand you or if you fail to get your point across, that oversight could impact any potential sale. You need to be comfortable working directly with members of the public because sales roles require regular interaction with customers, whether that’s on the phone or face-to-face. You also need to possess a confident demeanour, not only will this improve a customer’s confidence in you as a sales representative but it will also increase their association with the brand or product you are selling to them. A shy and uncertain sales person might discourage a customer from making a purchase. 
Being helpful and polite, while possessing a comprehensive understanding of your area of sales is a must. The better you know your product, the more confident you will be in selling it and similarly your potential buyer will have more confidence in you. Finally, a person that works within retail needs to be able to work effectively as part of a sales team which would include getting point of sales (POS) items ready, filling in if a colleague is away, completing a sale on behalf of a colleague or helping a colleague by persuading a customer that the product that they’re considering is the right one.

Qualifications and experience

Retail jobs have no formal educational requirements. However, most employers look for what you already know. For a lot of retail jobs, experience is learned while training on the job, although some large stores have training programs for new hires. If you have any prior experience with the products you'll be expected to sell it will be a plus, such as IT experience when applying for a sales position at a computer or electronics store. Prior experience will help boost your initial salary.
However, if you’ve set your sights on long-term career progression then there are various levels of qualifications available for you to choose from and these qualifications enable employers to make better informed decisions during the crucial recruitment stages. The levels range from entry level through to level 8. The higher levels begin from the City &Guilds Higher Professional Diploma in Retail Management (level 4) and the BTEC Higher National Diploma in Retail Management (level 5) and are reserved for those that want to be leaders in their field, e.g. managing directors.  The topics covered do these courses range from customer service, managing retail operations, finance, managing retail environment, to consumer behaviour, supply chain, and retail marketing. Westminster Kingsway College and the University of Brighton offer diploma courses too, like the Access to Higher Education Diploma Business level 3.
If you're interested in undertaking a foundation degree then there are courses available, supported by Skillsmart Retail – the sector skills council. There are higher education institutes that also offer courses including Manchester Metropolitan University, the University of the Arts London, and Leicester College. The degree courses offer a more specialist focus like fashion retailing, retail marketing or buying. There are also postgraduate degree options that include retailing MBAs.
A few big employers are also offering workplace-based courses which allow flexibility to students and provide valuable hands-on experience to better equip them when they progress with their career.
If you would like to discuss your career options, get in touch with our team of specialist retail consultants. Alternatively, if there is a specific position you are interested in contact the listed consultant directly.
To browse jobs by salary, region or industry use the filter on the left-hand side of the page to find your perfect role.

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