Area Manager
Mountain Warehouse
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Durham • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Driving sales to achieve business budget and profit growth
- To establish and maintain best practice in Customer care
- Build a people Development strategy to support succession
- Support and coach improvement in Visual Merchandising to achieve company standard
- To deliver operational compliance across your stores
- To act as a liaison between our Head Office, building and encouraging relations
- To ensure adherence to company procedure and policy, protecting the company’s assets and brand and build a strong relationship with our people partners
- Build strong relationships with key Head office partners to develop a robust strategy
- To recruit, coach, develop and manage a high performing team to the standard required by Mountain Warehouse
- Visit stores on a regular cycle to ensure consistency leaving a footprint to support actions and target increased visits to reverse under performance
- Constantly looking for opportunities to grow profit by reducing costs
- Driving Key Performance Indicators through the Store teams and ensuring stores are commercial for the market
- Analysing business results and trends taking appropriate action to drive sales and profitability
- Visiting stores and adding value by leaving clear and supportive actions to meet the business strategy and directions of your line manager
- Recognising outstanding sales performance across your teams
- Developing, sharing and implementing best practice across the area
- Communicating regularly with the Regional Manager and Head Office, concerning problems and highlighting opportunities
- Being an inspirational leader, demonstrating positive service and management techniques
Requirements
- Proven successful track record in delivering service, sales and profit expectations at field level
- A minimum 2 years field management experience, preferably in the Retail or Service Sector- apparel experience would be a huge advantage
- Proven people management, communication and leadership skills
- Demonstrated track record of managing a project such as opening stores successfully and dealing efficiently with issues as they arise
Benefits
- - Bonus scheme
- - Company Car
- - Pension Scheme
- - 50% Employee Discount across Mountain Warehouse and Animal
- - Twice-yearly uniform allowance
- - Employee Referral Incentive
- - Employee Assistance Programme
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
sales managementprofit growthoperational compliancevisual merchandisingperformance analysisproject managementcustomer careteam developmentKPI managementcost reduction
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationcoachingrelationship buildingproblem solvinginspirational leadershippeople managementstrategic thinkingteam motivationservice excellence