Supervisor

Job role and responsibility
You will lead a focused team whose role it is to offer an efficient and helpful service to customers. You will be responsible for displaying the extensive range of fish on sale, maintaining and promoting health and safety, food hygiene and safety - as well as being an experienced and competent fish retail assistant.

You may be involved in the purchase of stock from wholesalers, either at market or by telephone.

Career opportunities
This will depend on the type of business you are working in. If you are in a small specialist fishmonger business you may be able to progress to manager; you may even decide to buy your own business one day.

If you work in a large supermarket you will be able to move within the branch to other fresh food departments and into general retail management.

Remember that fish retailing is a form of retailing and once you have worked with customers you can apply these skills to any type of retail or customer service business. You could also move into fish wholesaling and contract buying.

Entry requirements
There are generally no pre-entry qualification requirements, however, you will need to know about food safety and hygiene as well as health and safety and be able to supervise and motivate a team - so your communication skills will need to be high.