Area Manager - Home Counties / Thames Valley

at  Mountain Warehouse

AREA MANAGER - HOME COUNTIES / THAMES VALLEY

We are a highly successful outdoor retailer who offer quality outdoor clothing and equipment at the lowest prices since 1997. We now have over 370 stores and more than 3000 employees.
It’s the teams that make the stores…ours are really important to us and therefore we are looking for a passionate, operational, forward thinking and people focussed Area Manager to lead our teams across the Home Counties and Thames Valley region.
Reporting to your Regional Manager, you will be responsible for the leadership of approximately 16 stores. Your key responsibilities will be to maximise store sales and profitability, focusing on operational and customer service standards, as well as building and developing a strong team through motivational leadership. Think of it like running your own small business!

• 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