Trainee Store Manager – Cork
Position: Trainee Store Manager
Location: Cork
Salary: €35K – €39K
Launch your Retail Management Career with a Leading National Retail Organisation.
We are seeking ambitious retail professionals to join our client management development programme as a Trainee Store Manager. This is an outstanding opportunity to receive structured training, hands‑on coaching, and ongoing support while developing the skills needed to become a successful retail leader.
Working within a high‑volume store environment, you will gain exposure to every aspect of retail management, including people leadership, commercial performance, operational excellence, customer experience, and stock management.
Responsibilities
As a Trainee Store Manager, you will work closely with experienced Store Managers and Area Managers, learning how to successfully lead large teams, drive sales performance, manage operational priorities, and deliver exceptional customer service.
This role offers a clear pathway into retail management with a leading national retailer committed to developing future leaders from within.
Ideal Backgrounds
Retail Supervisors
Team Leaders
Duty Managers
Department Managers
Assistant Managers
Grocery Retail Professionals
Supermarket Supervisors
Convenience Store Managers seeking progression
High‑volume retail professionals looking to advance their careers
If you’re ready to take the next step toward a Store Management career and have the drive, ambition, and passion to succeed in a fast‑paced retail environment, we’d love to hear from you.
Assistant Manager – Tommy Hilfiger
TOMMY HILFIGER is one of the world’s most recognised global lifestyle brands, confidently welcoming and inspiring consumers since 1985. Originally established in New York City and infused with the vibrant spirit of Americana, the brand creates the modern uniform of accessible luxury.
As the world of retail evolves, we believe that for all other parts of the chain to work, our stores must set the tone of what our two brands are all about. Our locations are paramount; a first‑class experience is a given and our in‑store standards should never be questioned.
Responsibilities
Lead the store teams to generate sales, profit, minimize losses, and create the best possible customer experience while ensuring the store is visually distinctive and impeccably maintained.
Identify opportunities to grow the business and improve performance through collaborating with others.
Maintain corporate visual merchandising directives and standards for sales floor and back room.
Work alongside the visual merchandising team to ensure clear communication and understanding between VM and store teams.
Partner with store management team to build on business opportunities and achieve company standards and objectives.
Focus staff on the importance of quality relationships with internal and external customers, ensuring accountability of staff in building a repeat customer base.
Complete daily and weekly store walkthroughs; evaluate product performance, pricing, staff service levels and inventory levels.
Communicate to the Store Manager what is driving sales and discuss any issues or priorities to develop strategies to maximize business, ensuring they are weekly visual presentation action plans.
Analyse store‑level reports and create action plans to improve results.
Assist with manpower planning, identification, recruitment, interviewing and hiring processes; recruit store personnel with a broad range of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds.
Work with the Store Manager to build bench strength for key positions, including possible successors.
Participate in weekly management meetings alongside other staff meetings.
Clearly communicate to staff: store and individual sales goals and other key performance expectations; sales results and provide guidance on what is needed to improve performance.
Provide a great customer journey and achieve exemplary mystery shop results.
About You
You connect to consumers and have a previous track record of supervisory or specialist roles within a premium or luxury brand.
You will have previous people‑management experience and act with purpose to resolve conflict and unproductive disagreements.
You are an effective communicator with the ability to cultivate belonging.
You collaborate to win and recognise and celebrate the contributions and achievements of others.
You are courageous in giving feedback that promotes positive behavioural change.
You adapt fast and work with pace.
You are energetic and inspire trust, showing a clear presence on the shop floor.
You approach all issues with a “can‑do” approach and make informed decisions to find in‑store solutions.
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About PVH
We are brand builders who focus our passion and creativity to build Calvin Klein and TOMMY HILFIGER into the most desirable lifestyle brands in the world… (text truncated for brevity) …
In addition to complying with all applicable laws, PVH is also committed to ensuring that all current and future PVH associates are compensated solely on job‑related factors such as skill, ability, educational background, work quality, experience and potential.
DIVERSITY & EQUAL OPPORTUNITY: We are committed to recruiting, training and providing career advancement to all associates regardless of gender, race, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, nationality or social or ethnic origin.
Manager, Finished Goods Supply Planning (Remote – Ireland)
Responsible for setting supply plans in all warehouses in the EMEA region and ensuring stock availability in each. The position drives material availability actions within Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, one of the company’s main drivers of customer satisfaction and growth.
Responsibilities
Directly manage up to eight associates throughout the EMEA region, as well as North America.
Identify opportunities and implement plans to improve on‑time delivery and inventory.
Work with EMEA L&D to improve freight and material handling costs.
Lead large, cross‑functional groups on improvement initiatives.
Work with demand planning to create and adjust inventory plans throughout the region.
Report out group progress against KPIs which include employee engagement, on‑time delivery, inventory and product availability.
Use the Danaher Business System to drive innovation and change.
Essential Requirements
Honours bachelor’s degree (Level 8) ideally within supply chain with a minimum of six years of experience, or master’s degree with four years of experience.
Two years of experience in direct management of multiple associates.
Experience leading associates in multiple geographies, representing multiple cultures.
Experience leading cross‑functional groups to attain common improvement goals.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work in a methodical and accurate manner.
Preferred Skills
Fluency in a second language.
APICS certification.
Travel & Physical Requirements
Ability to travel internationally or domestically 10% of the year.
Although remote, must be able to travel into the Clare site two to four times per month.
Benefits
Our comprehensive benefit programs add value to our lives, offering health care programs and paid time off, among others.
Customer Success Manager, Water Engineering (UK/I) – Remote
Responsibilities
Be accountable for the relationship health of a selected portfolio of accounts.
Develop Customer Success Plans, with documented value delivered.
Improve Autodesk Construction Cloud adoption within these accounts by solving customer challenges with our technology, thereby increasing monthly active users, projects and functionality in use.
Mitigate any churn risk and guide expansion discussions.
Become an expert in our Autodesk Construction Cloud Platform, current functionality and roadmap.
Minimum Qualifications
Three or more years of experience working for or with water companies, including roles such as digital lead, BIM manager, BIM coordinator, project manager, project engineer, quality manager or specialist contractor.
Advanced knowledge of AEC workflows and awareness of BIM solutions focused on construction for the water industry.
Advanced knowledge of Autodesk Construction Cloud platform.
Preferred Qualifications
Three or more years of experience working for or with water companies, including roles such as digital lead, BIM manager, BIM coordinator, project manager, project engineer, quality manager or specialist contractor.
Advanced knowledge of AEC workflows and awareness of BIM solutions focused on construction for the water industry.
Extremely beneficial would be a detailed understanding of technology tools consumed by the water industry such as the ACC platform or similar CDE and Construction/Project Management solutions.
In‑depth knowledge of the construction/technology industry.
In‑depth first hand knowledge of the UK and Ireland water industries.
Proficient in problem solving.
Familiar with the Construction Technology ecosystem.
Experience communicating the value of technology and its features to customers.
Ability to travel when required.
Experience in building face‑to‑face relationships with customers.
The Ideal Candidate
You are passionate about digitisation and progress in the construction industry.
You are comfortable proposing and building processes that will allow our organisation to grow, and collaborate with numerous team members, both internally and externally on site or in the board room.
You have a curious nature to uncover and understand customer challenges, industry trends and required workflows when adopting new technology and recommend best practices to increase and realise return on investment.
Confidence to understand customer business use cases to provide product feedback from customers and contribute to product roadmap discussions.
Excited by technology and happy to get into the product detail.
Software Engineering Manager – OpenBlue Identity
What You Will Do
Manage, mentor, and nurture a high‑performing team of software engineers, driving individual development and collective excellence.
Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and engaging team culture where creativity, innovation, and continuous learning thrive.
Champion professional development, career progression, and a culture that values growth.
Technical & Strategic Execution
Own the full software lifecycle—from initial design to continuous deployment.
Work closely with product managers, designers, and senior leadership to define technical requirements and guide strategic initiatives.
Analyse project needs and constraints, using data‑driven decision‑making to steer architectural and technical direction.
Conduct and guide code reviews across multiple services.
Troubleshoot complex performance, scalability, and reliability issues, contributing code when necessary.
Agile, DevOps, and Engineering Excellence
Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of Agile practices, ensuring predictable delivery and iterative improvement.
Advance CI/CD and DevOps culture, embedding best practices in automation, testing, and deployment into everyday development.
Use insights to drive ongoing improvement in engineering processes and developer experience.
Stay informed on emerging technologies—particularly AI/ML, automation, developer tooling—and evaluate opportunities to integrate innovative solutions into the tech stack.
Promote experimentation and continuous evaluation of new patterns, frameworks, and architectural approaches.
Essential Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
10+ years of experience in software engineering, including designing scalable APIs and distributed systems.
3+ years of managing and mentoring engineering teams in dynamic, remote/hybrid environments.
Strong proficiency in Java; an additional backend OO language is an advantage.
Strong proficiency in OAuth, OIDC and SAML (especially working with a provider like Okta, Auth0 or other).
Experience building containerised applications (Docker, Kubernetes).
Strong background with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, etc.).
Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure).
Familiarity with cybersecurity best practices and DevSecOps principles.
Leadership & Analytical Skillset
Strong analytical skills with a proven track record of data‑driven decision‑making.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage effectively across engineering, product, and senior leadership.
Ability to align technical strategy with broader business and product goals.
Passion for continuous learning and staying current with industry trends.
Own software design, development, and delivery from concept to continuous deployment.
Understand product teams identity requirements and break them down into reusable APIs, keeping them advised of security best practices.
Lead, mentor, and manage a team of engineers, fostering excellence, collaboration and accountability.
Champion Agile development practices (Scrum/Kanban), ensuring predictable delivery, continuous improvement, and effective team ceremonies.
Collaborate with both local and remote/global teams, ensuring alignment, communication, and cohesive execution.
Promote a quality‑first mindset, driving test‑automation strategies and shifting testing left.
Participate in and guide code reviews across multiple services and languages.
Define technical specifications and requirements in partnership with product and engineering teams.
Investigate and resolve complex performance and scalability challenges—contributing code when appropriate.
Contribute to best practices across CI/CD, development tools, source control, and observability.
Cultivate a positive, forward‑thinking team culture with a strong sense of ownership and continuous learning.
Nice to Have
Experience with mobile technologies.
Experience with web development stacks.
Why Join OpenBlue
Welcoming, collaborative, and connected team culture.
Regularly refreshed MacBook Pro.
Healthcare coverage for you and your family.
Pension matched up to 7%.
Highly competitive salary with annual review.
Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
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