WHO WE ARE

Known as the ‘Undisputed King of Trainers’, JD Sports is one of the world’s biggest sports fashion brands.
We are a global retailer with over 3,400 stores worldwide, connecting people to Sport, Music, and Fashion culture. In Australia since 2017, we now have opened 70+ stores across Australia and New Zealand.
At JD Sports, we don’t follow trends - we create them. We are looking for passionate people to join our team and help us stay elite in our field.

This position will have you overseeing the management and visual presentation of all relevant stores to help achieve profitable sales growth through the development of staff and implementation of short and long term company goals.
As a VIC Area Manager, you will be overseeing Doncaster, Eastland, Southland, Northland, Knox and Fountain Gate.

You will also be responsible, but not limited to, the following duties:

• Lead by example to set management expectations across your team and manage performance
• Train, mentor, and coach Team Members to work towards goals and succession planning
• Manage all key financial KPI’s to deliver growth on budget
• Visit all stores on regular rotation to develop teams and ensure stores are performing at the required level for current and future growth
• Recruit, induct and train management team to build bench strength for future expansion
• Lead and develop the team to deliver consistency across business intelligence
• Lead visual set-up of all new store openings and ensure relevant stores are upholding their visual representation
• Manage customer experience standards in store
• Drive management team to budget set daily and weekly on all business KPI’s
• Manage priorities and responsibilities from all areas of the business, i.e Head Office, Distribution Centre, Merchandise and Buying teams
• Escalation point of contact for all store issues