Area Manager

Age UK is recruiting! We have a fantastic opportunity to join our Retail team as an Area Sales Manager!

If you have great commercial awareness (ideally in the charity or fashion retail sector) and would like to utilise your skills and experience, in a charity that helps millions of older people across the UK, we would love to hear from you.

As an Area Sales Manager, the successful applicant of this multi-faceted role will manage 20 shops across Cheshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Derbyshire, Flintshire and Merseyside.

We are looking for a pro-active self-starter who can manage and motivate our shop managers, helping to increase sales, engage teams and continue to create a friendly and supportive working environment for retail colleagues in their area. Doing so, our Area Sales Managers help raise vital funds for some of the incredible services and support provided by the charity.

Please note due to the location of our shops, candidates will need to be located around the Cheshire, Merseyside areas with the ability and flexibility to travel across the wider areas.

We will be actively interviewing throughout the advertising period; early application is highly recommended.

Must haves:

• A positive outlook and engaging manner
• The ability to build a commercially focussed sales environment at shop level, identifying opportunities to maximise trading potential, ensure all shops meet or exceed agreed KPI's and actively managing underperformance.
• A successful proven record of achievement in a multi-site retail business environment at regional level within the retail or Charity retail sector.
• Proven field management experience within a geographically diverse area and a background recruiting, managing, and developing staff in a retail environment.
• A thorough understanding of the UK Charity Retail sector.
• The ability to review, set and monitor shop budgets along with the ability to review and interpret complex financial data.
• The skills to drive initiatives to increase levels of stock acquired over the door e.g., corporate donations, local businesses, schools, media activity, and ensure sufficient cost-effective stock generation at shop level.
• A Full Driving Licence is essential as is flexibility to travel and stay overnight when required

What we offer in return

• Competitive salary, 26 days annual leave + bank holidays + annual leave purchase scheme
• Excellent pension scheme, life assurance, health cashback plan and EAP
• Car Benefit Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loan
• Techscheme - buy any tech from Apple or Currys, up to £1000, and spread the cost over 12 months, interest free
• Blue Light Card Scheme
• You Did It Awards - recognition awards from £100-250.

Additional Information

For a full list of benefits please click here

All CVs and covering letters will be anonymised by our recruitment system when you apply for a role at Age UK. All equalities monitoring information is also anonymised and not shared with the hiring panel. Your name and address will only be known to us once you are invited for an interview. We are trialling this functionality to strengthen our recruitment process and offer a fair, unbiased selection process.

Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria under the Disability Confident Scheme. Please note that on occasion, due to high numbers of applications, Age UK reserves the right to limit the overall number of interviews offered, and therefore, it may not always be practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job.

Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.

Age UK politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.