Purpose of the Role : Is to create exponential value for people, customers and community.Quality, Integrity, E...
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Area Manager
Purpose of the Role : Is to create exponential value for people, customers and community.
Quality, Integrity, Empowerment and Sustainability.
They provide value to every customer by ensuring high-quality at the lowest price.
Requirements and Competencies :
Grade 12 qualification
Tertiary Qualification advantageous
Min 3 years Managerial Experience within the apparel retail sector.
Skills:
- Sales Driven
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to continuously motivate.
- Ability to demonstrate sales coaching and general management of staff
- A track record of sound people management skills within the apparel retail sector
- Attention to detail
- Ability to demonstrate excellent communication skills, which can be adapted to meet industrial requirements
- Good Relationship building skills
- Honesty and Integrity
The Area Manager will be responsible for leading, building and managing the required area by driving a sales culture to deliver
on the business objectives.
- Sales Operations through effective leadership
- To ensure that Store Managers and Sales Team Leaders are empowered to ensure relevant sales target at stores are met and exceeded.
- Together with the Regional Manager, develop and implement new sales strategies to ensure stores exceed sales targets.
- Ensuring that Store Managers and Sales Team Leaders conduct administrative duties to drive sales, including; the implementation of markdowns, promotions and effective merchandising.
- To keep Store Managers and Sales Team Leaders motivated to ensure staff morale within every store is at its optimum level.
- Together with the Regional Manager, implement new and innovative strategies to reward performers and motivate non performers.
- Focus on trends, opportunities and patterns relating to sales within the industry.
- Keeping up to date with competitor service offerings and industry developments.
- People Leadership
- To ensure that Store Managers and Sales Team Leaders are equipped to drive sales within the region.
- Ensure that Store Managers and Sales Team Leaders are constantly motivated to ensure optimum levels of performance
- To provide business leadership by upskilling Store Managers and Sales Team Leaders in all aspects ranging from increasing sales to ensuring administrative functions are diligently carried out.
- Ensure that relevant H.R. functions, including Disciplinary Hearings, CCMA, Recruitment (including interviewing potential new staff), Training and Development of new staff (including Operations Tests) is efficiently carried out
- Empower Store Managers and Sales Team Leaders to ensure administrative functions are efficiently carried out.
- Constant monitoring of Store Managers and Sales Team Leaders relating to Key Controls, Rosters, Marketing,
- Merchandising, Reporting, Stock Counts and Discipline Measures.
- Together with the Regional Manager, creating and implementing new and innovative methods to reduce shrinkage within the region.
- Conducting and submission of Supervised stock counts.
- Constantly monitoring Store Managers and Sales Team Leaders to ensure that submit weekly hanger counts are conducted and submitted.
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