Are you looking for a career in a thriving and expanding company? Ready for a fast-paced environment that rewards creativity and hard work? A place that gives you opportunities to grow and develop alongside a fun and welcoming, award-winning team? Then this is your sign to join Red Carpet Ready.
Why consider a career in retail?
While an often overlooked career path, starting your retail career at a company like Red Carpet Ready is the perfect way to build a career with little to no experience. Many of our retail staff are able to develop professional skills quickly and advance into management roles with us.
What we do at Red Carpet Ready
Red Carpet Ready are the UK’s Largest Dress Specialists, based at our one shopping destination in Branston, 8 minutes from Lincoln City Centre. Since opening our doors to customers, we have become the best-selling and fastest-growing prom and evening dress supplier, stocking over 3,500 dresses. Among the thousands of dresses we stock is our best-selling RCR Exclusives Collection, Red Carpet Ready’s own dress label designed by us, made with love, and only sold to our customers.
As well as being a multi-award winning business (winning Best Business 2022, New Business of the Year, the Women in Business Awards, and being a finalist for the Natwest EVAs UK Employer of the Year), we are one of the best-paying companies in the Lincoln area and give our employees many opportunities for development and promotion.
Why work for Red Carpet Ready?
There are so many things that put us apart from other retail employers. With a team built of full-time, part-time, and temporary staff, Red Carpet Ready is continuing to dominate the prom & evening dress industry despite a supposedly declining retail industry. Our company is constantly expanding under the leadership of our passionate and driven CEO, Kirsty Gale, with the Red Carpet Ready team growing as we launch our new HQ and warehouse next year.
We pride ourselves on our our culture of rewards and recognition here at Red Carpet Ready. Through clear staff targets, opportunities to grow and develop within the company and staff events, we are able to motivate our staff and allow them to build successful careers at Red Carpet Ready. Here are just a few reason to join the team.
We Recognise and Reward Staff
We make sure that the team here at Red Carpet Ready feel valued for their hard work through staff events such as our Annual Staff Recognition & Rewards Event. Events like these are opportunities for staff to celebrate our success and hard work as a team, receiving bonuses, rewards and acknowledgements. The company also regularly funds staff days out to promote team building and rapport in a less formal setting. Previous staff events include a day out to Alton towers and a Peaky Blinders themed party.
Our staff build careers with us starting from their first day
No matter what role your in or where you start from, there is always room to grow and develop your skills and career here at Red Carpet Ready.
How and when you are able to progress within the company is made clear from day one with set KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and our retail-focused internal graduation scheme. Many of our employees join us as Stylists. Stylists Assistants or Marketing Assistants with no prior experience, but thanks to mentoring, progression schemes and the provision of opportunities to take ownership and responsibility for their areas are able to quickly to develop into senior and management roles, all the while receiving payrises and promotions as they continue to climb the career ladder within the company.
Our staff success stories
Don’t just take our word for it! There are many example of staff who have joined with no industry experience before and have progressed to become key members of the Red Carpet Ready team. Here are just a couple of examples of staff who have been promoted into senior roles.
Jemima Cutts has worked at Red Carpet Ready for almost two years and is now a Head Stylist. Despite joining us with no previous experience, Jemima is now a full-time member of staff and was invited to be a part of the design team for our bestselling RCR Exclusives Collection. When asked about what it’s been like to work here, Jemima said:
“Red Carpet Ready has been a fantastic employer to me. I have been given opportunities that I wouldn’t have got anywhere else. They really care about their staff, I’m motivated at work, I enjoy coming here & I know there are endless opportunities for me here in the future.”
Red Carpet Ready’s Marketing and Projects Manager, Oliver Roylance , joined us straight out of university with no previous experience and has since become a core member of the Senior Management team. Oliver describes how he’s been able to advance with the company over the 3 years he’s worked here:
“I have received a huge amount of mentoring, development opportunities, promotions & pay rises,” says Oliver. “I feel these opportunities are rare & truly do not feel I would have received these if working elsewhere. Red Carpet Ready has a great working culture, blending a fast-moving, forward-thinking successful business environment with fun & unique staff events to celebrate. It’s a brilliant team to be a part of.”
So what are you what are you waiting for? If you want to join our fast-growing and dynamic team, apply through Indeed or our website today!