This is a rare and exciting opportunity for an experienced retail area manager to join our team and lead our Northwest Sydney stores and will encompass all aspects of retail area management leadership across up to 13 stores in the region.
Your current experience will demonstrate that you have a minimum of 3-5 years, multi-site, retail (high volume specialty or FMCG) area management experience and a strong retail management history.
Your primary objective will be to lead, guide and motivate passionate store managers and their teams within the region. You must be a people focused leader that thrives on building a positive culture, where team are the centre point of your role.
The opportunity:
Manage the day-to-day operations of your area group, ensuring consistent service excellence and compliance with company policies and procedures
Lead, coach and develop store management teams to maximise individual and store performance
Closely monitor sales, inventory, operational metrics and customer satisfaction to identify opportunities for improvement
Collaborate with the central Petbarn team to plan and execute regional business initiatives
Foster a positive, customer-centric culture across your area of responsibility
What we need:
A self-sufficient leader that needs minimal supervision but thrives on achieving goals. You love creating succession plans and having teams that drive for success.
You will be from a high-volume retailer and must possess a minimum of 3-5 years multi-site experience (you will be managing up to 14 high volume, fast paced stores) A similar volume inventory environment will be highly regarded
Have a proven ability in achieving budgeted sales, margin and EBIT targets, whilst presenting results to the senior leadership team
Be someone that loves creating strong morale and driving your team to support sales, profit and customer focus initiatives
You will be both strategic and operational in your approach to profitability and business expansion
Have exceptional relationship building and decision-making skills with a down to business attitude that creates an environment for an effective team is paramount.
Have the ability to negotiate and influence at all levels of the business, both support office and store level
Previous retail area management experience
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