Area Manager

7 months ago

Cape Town, South Africa Signature Cosmetics Full time

**PURPOSE**:
**What is the purpose of this job?**

To lead store teams, drive turnover, ensure profitability, control expenses, manage stock, deliver high store disciplines and standards in line with operational excellence for all designated stores

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**What are you responsible for doing?**
- Promote a high-performance culture though the effective leadership and management of store teams.
- Monitor sales for designated stores on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis and ensure action plans are in place to deliver required results.
- Ensure store specific action plans are in place for all underperforming stores.
- Discuss performing and non-performing stores with the National Operations and Sales Manager monthly and provide feedback on the achievement of action plans to deliver to requirements, including but not limited to stock management, slow moving products promotions, sales targets, Loyalty Card Programme, operational standards, shrinkage results and stock loss action plans, staffing and staff morale.
- Conduct performance meetings with underperforming store teams, ensure clear action plans are in place, monitor and review the achievement of the action plan.
- Ensure all monthly promotions are implemented in stores, according to required standards and each store provides the relevant evidence of implementation.
- Prepare and present quarterly reviews to the Managing Director and National Operations & Sales Manager, including relevant analysis and clear action plans to deliver to key performance requirements.
- Ensure effective utilization of reports to support sound problem solving and decision making.
- Effectively utilize relevant reporting to provide input to required stock levels and volumes to support sales budgets, e.g., Top selling lines, Slow moving product line items, Out of Stock line items, stock re-ordering levels.
- Prepare for, co-ordinate and obtain input for the content to be shared at Cycle meetings, ensuring that topics covered add value, address area specific relevant matters, enhance continual sales growth and the development of employees.
- Ensure that visual merchandising standards and disciplines are consistently implemented and maintained to the required business standard to create a beautiful store experience.
- Provide feedback on the effectiveness of visual merchandising that encourage link selling and support the effective implementation of promoted products.
- Ensure stores maintain presentation standards and disciplines which include merchandising of windows, shop fronts, gondola ends, and countertops.
- Share best practice learnings with other teams and across areas.
- Ensure that the store teams maintain focus on all key business indicators including but not limited to customer service excellence; Moments of Truth, Loyalty Card Programme, promotions, Link Selling, Make overs, stock management, Store standards and disciplines though the effective utilization of reporting, and ongoing feedback.
- Draft and submit a Monthly store visitation plan and provide updates on any changes to the agreed plan.
- Conduct monthly store visits and discuss including but not limited to sales performance against targets, store standards, store disciplines, compliance with policies and procedures, utilization of the Model Store files, notice board standards, stock management and the used of stock reports to manage Top 200 Items.
- Complete the Operations checklist and Banking audits monthly and provide feedback to the store management including updating the Store Visitation book with the relevant feedback, action plans and instructions.
- Ensure that the fully completed Operational Checklist is forwarded to the National Operations and Sales Manager monthly.
- Follow up, address, and rectify the out of line areas recorded on the Risk audits and previous store visits.
- Identify prime locations for stores in existing malls and shopping centers and discuss opportunities with National Operations and Sales Manager.
- Keep up to date with new mall and shopping center developments and notify the National Operations and Sales Manager of possible sites for new stores.
- Ensure the successful planning, co-ordination and launching of new stores, revamps and relocations and ensure the relevant checklists are completed.
- Effectively manage all people processes including but not limited to employee relations, performance management, learning and development processes, recognition schemes and annual leave planning.
- Effectively and timeously manage monthly payroll processes including the preparation and submission of the Staff Movement reports and all relevant supporting documentation.
- Ensure effective staffing schedules are in place in all stores including staffing over peak seasons, stock takes, training schedules and annual leave.
- Ensure that the correct recruitment processes are followed to enable optimal operations and store structures.
- Ensure all employees are inducted utilizi

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