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  • Accounts Assistant

    Burgess Hill
    Permanent
    £27,000 - £28,000 per year

    The Accounts Assistant will play a vital role in supporting the accounting and finance team within the retail industry. This position in Burgess Hill requires a detail-oriented individual to assist in maintaining accurate financial records and ensuring efficient financial processes.

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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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  • Office Junior

    West Byfleet
    Permanent
    £22,000 - £24,500 per year

    This exciting opportunity as an Office Junior in the Retail industry involves providing essential administrative support to ensure smooth operations within the Secretarial & Business Support department. The role is based in West Byfleet and is ideal for someone eager to develop their career in a professional and fast-paced environment.

    • If you can work in the office full time 5 days a week.
    • If you have no experience but are looking for your first office based role.
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  • Group Category Manager

    Liverpool
    Permanent
    £44,000 - £55,000 per year

    The Group Category Manager for Indirect Procurement is responsible for developing and executing category strategies that optimise cost, strengthen supplier performance, and ensure compliance with organisational and sustainability objectives. The role leads strategic sourcing, manages supplier relationships, drives cost‑out initiatives, and partners with stakeholders to deliver value across multiple indirect spend categories.

    • Group Category Manager Role with Growing Retail Organisation near Liverpool!
    • Opportunity to align indirect procurement with business objectives and targets.
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  • Pharmacist Manager - Cardiff

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

    We are seeking a highly organised and professional Pharmacist Manager to oversee the daily operations and ensure the highest standards of healthcare delivery in a retail setting. This permanent role in Cardiff offers a rewarding opportunity to lead a dedicated team and provide exceptional patient care.

    • Full time position
    • Supportive team
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  • Finance Director

    Leeds
    Interim

    Interim Finance Director position with unique opportunity to join a well known Global brand on an overseas project.

    • Pivotal role driving financial performance in overseas team
    • Unique opportunity within a high growth sector and Global business
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  • Finance Business Partner

    Leeds
    Permanent
    £60,000 - £70,000 per year

    Michael Page are seeking a skilled Finance Business Partner to oversee financial operations in the retail industry. Based in Leeds, you will play a pivotal role in supporting senior stakeholders across the business, providing insight, challenge, and financial guidance to drive performance and growth.

    • Partner with stakeholders to drive performance and commercial decisions.
    • Deliver insight, forecasts, and support key business change initiatives.
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  • Management Accountant

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

    Job Title: Management Accountant
    Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 (depending on experience)
    Location: Office-based (Full-Time)
    Job Type: Permanent

    • Management Accountant - Bury
    • Well-established business offering progression and development opportunities
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  • Senior Talent Acquisition Manager

    East Midlands
    Permanent
    £75,000 - £80,000 per year

    We are seeking a Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition for a key role within this business. This position, based in the Midlands, focuses on developing and executing hiring strategies to attract top talent for a growing organisation whilst instilling a Performance mentality to the team.

    • Working for a FTSE business in the Midlands region
    • Acting in a No2 capacity
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  • Deputy Pharmacist Manager - Coulby Newham

    Middlesbrough
    Permanent
    £50,000 - £52,000 per year

    This is an excellent opportunity for a Deputy Pharmacist Manager to lead and support a healthcare team in a retail environment. The role focuses on delivering exceptional pharmaceutical services while ensuring compliance and customer satisfaction.

    • Part time 30 hours a week over 5 days
    • Managing a supportive and collaborative team
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  • Pharmacist - Newcastle Under Lyme

    Newcastle-under-Lyme
    Permanent
    £50,000 - £60,000 per year

    This exciting opportunity is for a Healthcare professional to join a retail environment in Newcastle Under Lyme. The role involves overseeing healthcare services in a fast-paced and customer-focused setting.

    • Ability to develop furthermore
    • Supportive team
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  • Pharmacist Manager - Thornton Cleveleys

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

    This position offers an exciting opportunity to lead and manage the healthcare department within a retail setting. The role focuses on delivering exceptional customer service and ensuring operational efficiency in Thornton Cleveleys.

    • Supportive team
    • Working with one of the UK's largest supermarkets.
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  • Pharmacy Manager - Brampton - Yorkshire

    South Yorkshire
    Permanent
    £55,000 - £65,000 per year

    This is an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacy Manager to lead operations in a retail healthcare setting. The role is based in based in Brampton in Yorkshire and will focus on delivering excellent customer service while ensuring compliance with pharmaceutical standards.

    • Supportive team
    • Ability to lead a team within on of the UK's largest Supermarkets.
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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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  • Pharmacy Manager- St Andrews

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

    This is an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacy Manager in the retail sector to lead and manage a healthcare department. The role focuses on delivering excellent customer care and ensuring the effective operation of the pharmacy in St Andrews in Northern Scotland.

    • Supportive team
    • Ability to lead a team for UK's largest supermarket
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  • Deputy Pharmacist Manager - Folkestone

    Folkestone
    Permanent
    £50,000 - £52,000 per year

    The role of Deputy Pharmacist Manager in the retail healthcare industry involves supporting the Pharmacy Manager in delivering high-quality pharmaceutical services. Based in Folkestone, this position focuses on ensuring compliance, customer satisfaction, and team support.

    • Supportive and collaborative team to lead
    • 36 hours over 5 days
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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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  • 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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  • Technical support Support Specialist

    Chiswick
    Permanent
    £30,000 - £35,000 per year

    The Technical Support Specialist will assist in maintaining and resolving technical issues within the Engineering & Manufacturing department of a Automotive retail-focused organisation. This role is based in London and offers the opportunity to provide hands-on support and technical expertise to ensure seamless operations.

    • If you have worked as a Technical support specialise before
    • If you have worked in the Automotive industry.
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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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  • Deputy Pharmacist Manager - Whitstable

    Whitstable
    Permanent
    £50,000 - £52,000 per year

    The Deputy Pharmacist Manager role in the retail industry involves supporting project management activities within the healthcare department. Based in Whistable - Kent, this part time position focuses on delivering high-quality results while collaborating with various stakeholders.

    • Supportive team
    • Part time, 30 hours
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  • Deputy Pharmacist Manager - Thirsk

    Thirsk
    Permanent
    £50,000 - £52,000 per year

    The role of Deputy Pharmacy Manager in the retail industry within the healthcare department is a permanent position based in Thirsk - Yorkshire. This opportunity offers a chance to support project management efforts while driving key initiatives to support the organisation's healthcare goals.

    • Part time 30 hours a week, flexible
    • Working within a supportive team
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  • Finance Analyst

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

    This is a predominantly Management Accountant-led role with growing FP&A responsibility, focused on stabilising numbers, fixing data, and improving processes in an evolving business.

    The role suits a pragmatic, resilient accountant with corporate experience who enjoys rolling up their sleeves and helping shape the journey toward true business partnering.

    • Shape an FP&A function on a journey, not just inherit one
    • Hands‑on role with real impact in a growing, evolving business
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  • FP&A analyst

    Newbury
    Permanent
    £30,000 - £30,000 per year

    This FP&A Analyst role in the retail sector offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to financial planning and analysis within the Accounting & Finance department. The position is based in Newbury and requires a detail-oriented professional to support key business decisions.

    • Join a growing business
    • Hybrid and Study Support
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  • Pharmacist Manager - Hastings

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

    This exciting opportunity as a Pharmacy Manager in the retail industry requires a motivated professional to oversee and optimise the healthcare department's operations. Based in Hastings, you will lead a dedicated team to deliver exceptional service and ensure compliance with healthcare regulations.

    • Working with a supportive and collaborative team
    • Working in one of the UK's largest supermarkets
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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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  • Sales Administrator

    Leeds
    Permanent
    £26,000 - £28,000 per year

    The Sales Administrator will support the customer service department within the retail industry by handling administrative tasks, ensuring smooth communication, and maintaining accurate records. This permanent position offers an opportunity to contribute to a growing team while enhancing organisational efficiency.

    • Fantastic opportunity to grow a fast growing business
    • Opportunities for internal growth
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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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  • Accounts Payable

    Wolverhampton
    Temporary
    £12 - £15 per hour

    The Accounts Payable role in the retail industry involves managing invoices and payments efficiently while maintaining accurate financial records. Based in Wolverhampton, this temporary position requires a detail-oriented individual with a keen understanding of accounting processes.

    • Immediate start
    • Temporary to permanent
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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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