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Alexander Steele is recruiting on behalf of a successful and market-leading FMCG brand to find a National New Store Development Manager to join their team.
Up to £45k DOE + car + bonus + package
Summary of Role:
You'll be responsible for the launch, planning, execution, and management of all new stores until they reach the new store opening sales threshold, and the new Store Managers within an evolving region. Their duties include overseeing the recruitment and training of the Managers and their teams, and execution of the sales budget and creating strategies to help each store achieve its sales goals, whilst implementing them.
You will be responsible for leading and managing daily operations to achieve business goals and maximise profitability within an agreed timeframe before full handover to the relevant Regional Teams. Your duties will also include guiding management staff in your region, setting performance objectives, evaluating, and optimising operational performance, ensuring regulatory and company standards are upheld, and preparing operations and financial reports.
Key Responsibilities
• Achieving business goals and revenue targets.
• Recruiting, training, and supporting Store Managers as well as conducting regular performance appraisals throughout the opening phases.
• Overseeing daily operations, managing budgets, and setting performance objectives.
• Developing and implementing business, marketing, and advertising plans for each new site.
• Planning, evaluating, and optimising operations to be efficient and cost-effective.
• Ensuring customer service complies with regulatory and quality standards.
• Ensuring company standards and procedures are followed.
• Preparing and presenting monthly analyses, and reports of operations and sales initiatives on each opening.
Retail Operations
• Work with and support in the creation of robust processes to ensure store standards and cleanliness are impeccable at all times.
• Utilise agreed systems to manage each stores functions, analysis, and documenting.
• Ensure adherence to company promotional and commercial guidelines.
• Create and launch scheduled company tasks and reports on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis as needed.
• Play an active role in the creation of the weekly bulletin content, commercial direction of the group and educate store teams on following this protocol, specifically in relation to new stores.
• Accountable for the scheduling, budget control and management of new stores, and store hours across the new store estate.
• Day to day management and leadership of the retail overseeing the following areas:
- Store Visual Merchandising execution to company guidelines.
- Store operating procedures, the creation of BPM’S and SOP’S and revisions to improve process.
- New store opening and store closure operational support.
- Ensure stock rotation in store is managed accordingly to minimise stock loss.
Budgeting/Cost Control
• Create working schedules to ensure labour spending is under budget and used effectively.
• Control cost of stationery/consumable items in store.
• Oversee the staff training travel costs effectively and adherence to the company travel and expenses policy.
Staff Development
• Subject to agreed criteria; recruitment, training, set action and targets, appraise and manage performance, development, coaching and general support of all team members to ensure targets are met.
• Identify key areas to drive sales performance, plan and implement action to achieve sales growth.
• Support and create initiatives for company KPI’S, the staff incentive scheme and any other initiatives being prioritised by the group.
• Set an example for team members of commitment, process and activities, work ethics and habits and personal character.
Ad-Hoc
• Where necessary, and by business need, support stores in other areas from time to time.
• Support the property department in new location identification, maintenance requirements across the estate and ensuring health and safety compliance.
• Support the operations team in the set up and opening of new stores.
• Liaise with Head Office Functions to ensure in-store standards are optimized including Marketing, Property, Group Audit and Operations, IT, and the Warehouse.
• Support to all other departments with and related issues.
You will have:
• The ability to plan and prioritise workloads and delegate accordingly.
• The ability to multi-task and work under pressure.
• Strategic direction ensuring consistent and exceptional standards.
• The ability to manage, motivate and inspire others.
• A positive and initiative-taking approach to lead change.
• Highly self-motivated and enjoy working with initiative.
• A positive and ‘can do’ attitude.
• Strong verbally and written skills.
• Worked in a fast pace, high volume multi-site business.
• Excellent leadership and decision-making skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Interested? Apply today or contact me on lewis.miller@alexandersteele.com
National New Store Development Manager
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Location:
Midlothian
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Sector:
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Job type:
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Salary:
£40000 - £45000
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Job ref:
LM845
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Published:
3 months ago
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Expiry date:
24 Aug 2024