Role: Regional Manager
Location : Durban KZN
Purpose of the Role: The Regional Manager will be responsible for leading (size of area), building and managing the required area by driving a sales culture to deliver on the business objectives.
Requirements: - Tertiary Qualification advantageous
- Grade 12 qualification
- 5 years Management Experience within the apparel retail sector
Competencies: - Sales Driven
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to continuously motivate
- Ability to demonstrate sales coaching and leadership
- A track record of leading people
- Attention to detail
- Ability to demonstrate excellent communication skills
- Sound understanding of industry requirements
- Good Relationship building skills
Role: The Regional Manager will be responsible for leading (size of area), 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 the Management team is empowered to ensure relevant sales target are met and exceeded
- Develop and implement new sales strategies to ensure regional growth
- Ensuring that the Management team implements administrative duties to drive sales, including; the implementation of markdowns, promotions and effective merchandising
- To keep the management team motivated to ensure staff morale within the region is at its optimum level
- 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
- New store development
- To ensure regional expansion in terms of continuously adding to the store compliment within your region
- To source potential new stores within the region, conducting viewings of potential new stores and reviewing new stores
- People Leadership
- To ensure that Area Managers are equipped to drive sales within the region
- Be the bridge of communication between Head Office and the Operations Team within the region
- Ensure that Area Managers are constantly motivated to ensure optimum levels of performance.
- To provide business leadership by upskilling Area Managers 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, Training and Development are efficiently carried out
- Administrative Management
- Empower Area Managers to ensure administrative functions are efficiently carried out
- Constant monitoring of Area Managers relating to Key Controls, Rosters, Marketing, Merchandising, Reporting, Stock Counts and Discipline Measures.
