Retail Area Manager

3 weeks ago


Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa BOSS Consult Full time

Job Description :

Area Management has operational and financial responsibilities for a defined region or territory. Their duties include providing training and development for staff, ensuring consistency across the region relating to administration, marketing, company standards, and increasing sales and profitability in their region. Area Managers use leadership and critical thinking skills to oversee supervisors in certain geographical locations. Area Managers have the following responsibilities:

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

  • Recruit, hire and train new managers in their direct area.
  • Offer consultation and recommendations to store managers on overcoming operations challenges.
  • Monitor sales and work toward meeting quarterly objectives.
  • Minimize cost and labour by reviewing schedules and inventory use.
  • Visit stores to evaluate operations, cleanliness, and efficiency of each area.
  • Conduct Opus Area Management Checklists on each store visit and report/resolve the issues.
  • Conduct Supervised Hanger counts and ensure that corrective stock management procedures are being attained consecutively.
  • Consistently reinforce disciplines, procedures, protocols and communication throughout all stores and staffing within their store profile ensuring the end results amounts to increased sales, profit, and revenue for the business.
  • Effective Stock Management Processes, ensuring the Company is Not at a loss.
  • Correct Procedures, ensuring the Company is Not at a loss.

Business Culture & Ethos:

  • Loyalty
  • Trust
  • Accountability
  • Respect
  • Constructive Communication

These are the Key Significant Indicators in assembling a formidable team that will ensure a profitable business environment.

All perspective candidates should have a minimal of 5 - 10 years Area Management experience with viable, positive references and a clean criminal record and MIE report before we consider employment.

The quantity of stores and staff that the candidate was responsible for quantifies a KPI – Key Performance Indicator – as this directly portrays the ability to manage a team to profitability and what steps were taken to reach the result – increased growth and GP%.

5 - 10 years retail experience (preferably in the clothing sector) with a proven/tested track record is required.

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