Area Manager - North
- Full-time
Company Description
This area will cover Scotland, parts of Ireland and Northern England - please be aware you will be required to visit these sites.
We are pushing the boundaries of traditional retail environments and future-proofing our business. Reporting to the Regional Manager, you will oversee up to 20 cross-facia stores within The Frasers Group. You will achieve this by having a strong commercial awareness to coach, support and progress Store Manager engagement, providing inspirational leadership on how to surpass the company objectives. You will operate as a business manager for your area, ensuring that business initiatives are met with positivity and pace, whilst controlling and delivering across the board for store operations, customer service, budget control, people and product.
- Monthly & Quarterly Commercial Bonuses
- Company pension scheme
- Join the Fearless1000 Incentive Scheme watch THIS video to find out more
- We offer a wide range of Development Courses with National Qualifications
- Group Wide 20% Discount across all Frasers Group brands
Job Description
Operations:
- Oversee store operations and ensure stores deliver to expectation on all KPIs
- Coach and advise store teams with planning workload effectively
- Use visit checklists to observe store performance and hold managers accountable for underperformance, providing support and feedback for improvements
- Use business communication tools to oversee completion of tasks and ensure your team understand all key functions • Challenging and communicating improvements to store operations
Controls:
- Oversee wages and use reports to coach and advise teams to ensure wage controls are met weekly, ensuring store teams resolve any issues quickly and effectively
- Oversee compliance with processing of payroll and exceptions, ensuring stores resolve issues and problemsolve effectively
- Drive excellent performance on wage controls through detailed analysis and floor-based observations
- Coach store teams to work within time frames set by the business and guide them with realistic expectations • Be organised and structured in their work, oversee store management daily structure and influence change
Sales:
- Understand business and customer expectations and ensure this is executed at the store level
- Observe service through store visits and use knowledge to coach managers on how to improve
- Understand product features and benefits and coach store management on how to deliver a broad understanding to teams
- Drive KPI targets and motivate store teams to deliver results
- Analyse data and communicate with teams for improvement
- Understand the retail industry, business challenges, competitors and customers, with a strong commercial awareness
- Coach and guide store teams on how to interpret merchandising guidelines to the sales floor and strong commerciality and efficiency
Development:
- Identify internal and external talent and use development opportunities and performance management processes to drive exceptional performance
- Be self-driven in your personal development
- Plan for development and create clear succession plans for each store to encourage next generation and support business growth
- Create an environment that encourages and rewards performance fairly and equitably
- Plan for new stores, identify key players and movement of the team
- Use knowledge of The Frasers Group structure, elevation strategy and initiatives to drive success in your region
- Project manage new store openings and closures
Leadership and Management:
- Inspire the workforce and act as a role model to others
- Develop, coach and motivate your team of Store Managers to achieve success, holding them accountable where appropriate
- Take responsibility for your area and be accountable for any outcomes
- Develop relationships with teams by way of regular visits, conference calls and day-to-day communications
- • Supporting your Regional Manager and contributing to the success of your region
Qualifications
- Minimum 3 years of experience within retail at a senior management level
- A background that will not only prove you know how to increase sales and profits, control costs and stock loss, but also that you’ve managed senior managers
- Proven track record of internal progression and development
- Must be able to work well under pressure and to strict deadlines
- Able to work a flexible schedule based on the company needs
Additional Information
Key Behaviours: An opportunity like this at Frasers Group is for the fearless. The potential is massive, the experience is unrivalled. To be able to make the most of it you need to live and breathe our principles - you will:
Own it and back yourself
- • Takes responsibility for results and acts to inspire their team with their vision and what is required to constantly improve and deliver above expectations
- • Is confident in their abilities, delivering outcomes with conviction and credibility
Think without limits and take the team with you
- • Is comfortable taking risks and learning from mistakes, and promotes a safe environment for others to do the same
- • Constantly demands the highest standards from the team, challenging the status quo and pushing every day to improve results and the experience of our customers and colleagues
- • Champions others achievements and celebrates success
Don’t hesitate and act with purpose
- • Acts decisively and is clear on their vision and direction
- • Drives their teams to deliver great results, executing all tasks within expected time frames whilst maintaining quality at all times