Store Manager, Deputy Store Manager & Team Manager - Cotswolds Region
We’re looking for passionate, people‑focused leaders to join our stores at Team Manager, Deputy Store Manager, and Store Manager level across our Cotswold Region which includes Witney, Banbury, Chipping Norton and Bicester.
Across all roles, you’ll play a vital part in delivering exceptional customer experience, driving commercial performance, and leading high‑performing teams in a fast‑paced retail environment. Whether you’re developing your first leadership role or stepping into senior store leadership, you’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact.
Team Manager
What You’ll Do
Lead, coach, and develop your team to deliver outstanding customer service and strong commercial results.
Use data and insight to drive performance, maximise sales, and improve service standards.
Create an inclusive, high‑energy environment where colleagues feel supported and motivated.
Manage performance effectively, providing clear feedback and guidance to help your team grow.
Support delivery of store priorities, embracing change and new ways of working.
What You Will Bring
Experience leading teams in a fast‑paced retail or customer‑focused environment.
Strong commercial awareness and confidence using data to make decisions.
Ability to coach and develop others with clarity, empathy, and accountability.
Confidence in having constructive and sometimes challenging conversations.
A resilient, adaptable mindset with strong digital confidence and a passion for great service.
Deputy Store Manager
What You’ll Do
Support the Store Manager to lead the store, driving performance across commercial, operations, people, and visual standards.
Deliver results through effective planning, performance management, and clear accountability.
Lead large teams, ensuring high standards, pace, and consistent execution across all areas.
Use data, insight, and digital tools to improve decision making and drive performance.
Build strong partnerships across your store, region, and wider business to enable transformation and growth.
What You Will Bring
Proven leadership experience managing large teams in a fast‑paced retail environment.
Strong understanding of end‑to‑end store performance and how to deliver impact.
A confident communicator who can influence, challenge, and engage teams effectively.
Resilience and adaptability, with the ability to balance strategic priorities and operational detail.
Strong planning and performance management capability, with a focus on delivering results at pace.
Store Manager
What You’ll Do
Lead your store with full accountability for commercial performance, customer experience, and operational excellence.
Set clear direction and high standards, ensuring delivery across all aspects of store performance.
Build and develop a high‑performing leadership team, driving engagement and capability.
Use data and insight to shape strategy, improve performance, and deliver sustainable growth.
Collaborate across your region and the wider business to deliver transformation and continuous improvement.
What You Will Bring
A proven track record of leading large, high‑performing teams in a fast‑paced retail environment.
Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to deliver results across all areas of store performance.
Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to inspire and influence at all levels.
Strong planning, organisation, and performance management capability.
Confidence using digital tools and data to drive decisions and coach others.
What’s in it for you:
Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.
Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…
20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.
Everyone’s welcome
We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.
We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.
If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.
Lead with purpose. Own the outcomes. Raise the bar. This is your store. And your chance to shape the future of M&S. Are you ready for it? Take Your Marks and apply today.