Role Overview
We're looking for a passionate, energetic and community-focused Bristol Community Manager to lead our Park Street store and grow the Goose & Gander community across Bristol.
This isn't your typical retail management role. While you'll be responsible for leading the day-to-day operation of our flagship Bristol store, you'll also be the driving force behind bringing the Goose & Gander brand to life within the city.
From organising community events and collaborating with local businesses to creating memorable in-store experiences, you'll help make our Park Street store a destination that people genuinely want to visit.
You'll build and develop a high-performing team, create an exceptional customer experience, drive commercial performance and become the face of Goose & Gander in Bristol.
If you love building communities, creating experiences and leading from the front, we'd love to hear from you.
Key ResponsibilitiesCommunity & Brand
- Become the face of Goose & Gander within the Bristol community.
- Build meaningful relationships with local customers, universities, creatives, cafés, fitness studios, charities and businesses.
- Plan, organise and host regular in-store events, workshops, launches and community activations.
- Identify opportunities to grow our local presence through partnerships and collaborations.
- Create excitement around new product launches and seasonal campaigns.
- Gather customer feedback and community insight to help shape future initiatives.
Store Leadership
- Lead the Park Street store, creating a positive, ambitious and inclusive culture.
- Recruit, train and develop an exceptional retail team.
- Coach the team to deliver outstanding customer experiences every day.
- Lead by example on the shop floor and set the standard for service and brand knowledge.
- Complete regular performance reviews and support ongoing development.
Customer Experience
- Deliver an inspiring, welcoming and memorable shopping experience.
- Ensure every customer feels part of the Goose & Gander community.
- Maintain exceptional visual merchandising standards throughout the store.
- Support customers with styling advice, product recommendations and personalisation options.
- Drive customer engagement through email sign-ups, community events and loyalty.
Commercial Performance
- Take ownership of store sales, profitability and KPIs.
- Monitor performance, identifying opportunities to improve sales and customer experience.
- Manage rotas, labour budgets and daily operations.
- Oversee stock management, deliveries, replenishment and inventory accuracy.
- Ensure health & safety and operational standards are consistently maintained.
What We're Looking For
We're looking for someone who is:
- Passionate about building communities and creating memorable experiences.
- Confident leading and developing high-performing teams.
- Commercially minded with a track record of delivering sales growth.
- A natural relationship builder who enjoys networking and creating partnerships.
- Organised, proactive and comfortable managing multiple priorities.
- Creative, energetic and full of ideas.
- Passionate about fashion, lifestyle and community-led brands.
- Flexible to work weekdays, evenings and weekends when required for events.
Experience organising community events, brand activations or local partnerships would be highly desirable.
What You'll Be Doing
No two weeks will look the same. You could be:
- Hosting a creative workshop in-store.
- Organising a university pop-up.
- Collaborating with a local coffee shop.
- Running a community social evening.
- Launching a new collection.
- Coaching your retail team.
- Planning Bristol-based brand collaborations.
- Analysing store performance and implementing new ideas.
- Creating experiences that turn customers into loyal members of the Goose & Gander community.
What We Offer
- The opportunity to lead one of our flagship stores.
- A unique role combining retail leadership with community building.
- The freedom to create and deliver your own local events and partnerships.
- A supportive, ambitious and creative working environment.
- Staff discount and early access to new collections.
- Clear opportunities for progression within a fast-growing brand.
- The chance to play a key role in shaping the future of Goose & Gander in Bristol.
If you love retail but believe stores should be about more than just selling products, and you're excited by the idea of building a thriving community around an independent British brand, we'd love to hear from you.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £32,000–£40,000 per year
Location: Park Street, Bristol (in person)
Pay: £32,000.00-£40,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
