Personality Traits:
Leadership: Strongly developed leadership skills are crucial as an Area Manager. Area Managers will use advanced leadership skills to inspire, mentor, and encourage store-level managers to reach quarterly and annual goals.
Communication: Because an Area Manager may be responsible for a large number of managers in a certain area, they may often have to manage from a distance. Strong written and verbal communication skills are important in this role.
Mathematics: Mathematics and reporting skills are useful as an Area Manager. Area Managers will use basic to intermediate mathematical skills to report costs, profits, and losses to district management.
Problem-solving: It is the responsibility of the Area Manager to identify and overcome problems. They may deal with employment, operation, or inventory cost challenges and will need to develop strategic critical thinking skills.
Comprehension and Implementation: Area Management needs to be able to review all documentation, procedures, protocols, and apply them within the stores through training and developing the staff. The practical application of our systems should allow them to clearly identify issues that should be escalated as and when the need arises.
Job Description:
Area Management has operational and financial responsibilities for a defined region or territory. Their duties include providing training and development for staff, ensuring consistency across the region relating to administration, marketing, company standards, and increasing sales and profitability in their region. Area Managers use leadership and critical thinking skills to oversee supervisors in certain geographical locations.
Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
Recruit, hire, and train new managers in their direct area.
Offer consultation and recommendations to store managers on overcoming operations challenges.
Monitor sales and work toward meeting quarterly objectives.
Minimize cost and labor by reviewing schedules and inventory use.
Visit stores to evaluate operations, cleanliness, and efficiency of each area.
Conduct Opus Area Management Checklists on each store visit and report/resolves the issues.
Conduct Supervised Hanger counts and ensure that corrective stock management procedures are being attained consecutively.
Consistently reinforce disciplines, procedures, protocols, and communication throughout all stores and staffing within their store profile ensuring the end results amount to increased sales, profit, and revenue for the business.
Effective Stock Management Processes, ensuring the Company is Not at a loss.
Correct Banking Procedures, ensuring the Company is Not at a loss.
Business Culture & Ethos:
Loyalty
Honesty
Trust
Ingenuity
Accountability
Simplicity
Respect
Value-centricity
Constructive Communication
These are the Key Significant Indicators in assembling a formidable team that will ensure a profitable business environment.
Minimum Requirements:
All prospective candidates should have a minimum of 5 - 10 years of Area Management experience with viable, positive references and a clean criminal record and MIE report before we consider employment.
The quantity of stores and staff that the candidate was responsible for quantifies a KPI – Key Performance Indicator – as this directly portrays the ability to manage a team to profitability and what steps were taken to reach the result – increased growth and GP%.
References – viable & traceable
5 - 10 years retail experience (preferably in the clothing sector) with a proven/tested track record.
#J-18808-Ljbffr
