Wickes

Wickes is a home improvement retailer serving local tradespeople, customers having a kitchen or bathroom designed and installed, and DIY customers. Its first UK store opened in 1972 in Whitefield, Manchester; today it has more than 8,000 employees and 233 stores, and describes itself as one of the UK's largest retailers of kitchens and bathrooms.

Recognised as an employer: at the Retail Week Awards 2026, Wickes was highly commended for The Happiest Place to Work and won the Digital Excellence Award. It also won the Workplace Game Changer Award at the Retail Gazette Awards 2025.

Where people work: in stores across the UK, as customer service assistants, retail supervisors, assistant managers and store managers; as kitchen and bathroom design consultants, in store and in customers' homes; at the Support Centre in Watford, in HR, IT, marketing, commercial, legal and sustainability, property, facilities, health and safety, and finance; and in distribution. Wickes also has an approved installer network and runs apprenticeships, traineeships and early-careers schemes. It offers flexible working, including job shares, part-time and split hours.

What Wickes offers (tailored to role and grade, from Wickes' careers site): a 20% colleague discount online and in store, savings with over 1,000 other retailers, a pension, life assurance, an employee assistance programme with free counselling, a private GP by phone or video, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, salary advance and salary-deducted loans, and a Save As You Earn share plan, plus optional benefits such as cycle to work, dental cover and a health cash plan.

Every Wickes job on The Retail Appointment links straight through to Wickes' own careers site to apply.