Operations Team Leader

Operations Team Leader - ARNE | 5-Month Fixed-Term Contract

Location: Bluewater Shopping Centre, Kent

Contract: Full-Time, 5 - Month Fixed-Term Contract

Hours: 40 hours per week

Salary: £14.62 per hour

About ARNE

ARNE is a fast-growing British clothing and footwear brand built around a simple idea - Less is More. Their journey has been explosive, evolving at real pace into a rapidly expanding retail business with a growing physical footprint and a seriously loyal community behind it. The brand is understated, confident and customer-focused, with a strong emphasis on quality, value and creating products people genuinely want to wear.

The Operations Team Leader Role

As Operations Team Leader, you will take ownership of the operational heartbeat of the store, ensuring stock moves efficiently from delivery to the shop floor and that the team always has what it needs to deliver an exceptional customer experience.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading daily stockroom and back-of-house operations

• Coordinating deliveries and ensuring stock is processed accurately and efficiently

• Driving replenishment to maintain strong product availability across the shop floor

• Maintaining an organised, commercially effective and trade-ready stockroom

• Supporting stock counts, inventory accuracy and loss-prevention processes

• Delegating operational tasks and keeping the team focused on priorities

• Coaching colleagues on stock-management processes and operational standards

• Working closely with the management and visual teams to support product launches and floor moves

• Maintaining high standards across health and safety, compliance and housekeeping

• Identifying operational challenges, taking ownership and finding practical solutions

• Supporting the wider store team during busy trading periods

What We’re Looking For

• Previous experience within retail stockroom, inventory or store operations

• Experience supervising, coaching or leading a team

• Strong organisational skills and exceptional attention to detail

• Confidence managing deliveries, replenishment and competing operational priorities

• A hands-on approach and willingness to get stuck in

• The ability to work at pace while maintaining accuracy and high standards

• Strong communication skills and the confidence to work across different store functions

• Commercial awareness and an understanding of how strong operations support sales

• Flexibility to work across weekdays, evenings and weekends

About You

You care about what you do and take pride in doing things properly. You bring energy, stay humble and do not let ego get in the way. You are the kind of person who gets stuck in, solves problems and follows through on what you say you are going to do. No job is beneath you, you put the customer first, and when things do not go to plan, you adapt, find a way forward and go again. You think, you act and you get stuff done.

What’s In It for You

• The opportunity to join ARNE at an exciting stage of its retail expansion

• A key leadership role within a fast-paced and growing British brand

• The opportunity to help shape the operational standards of a new store

• A collaborative culture built around ownership, humility and getting things done

• The chance to develop your leadership and operational retail experience

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