Area Manager

A fantastic opportunity to join our team as an Area Manager has arisen. We are looking for a commercially minded Area Manager that is passionate about maximising sales and profits across our charity shops and ensuring that the customers have a terrific experience!

You will provide support to the shops based in Hythe, Folkestone and Dover.  This is an exciting time to be part of our senior leadership team.  If you are an experienced Area Manager within the charity or retail sector, this could be the ideal role for you!

Retail Area Manager - The Role:

• Management of the Shop Managers in order to maximise the area team's sales and profitability and achieving income targets
• Controlling expenditure and delivering net contribution
• Analyse all reports and commercial information available to help improve the performance of stores.
• Identify current retail trends, monitor competitor activity, reporting and responding where appropriate
• Monitoring and maintaining POS systems to ensure they are working efficiently
• Managing SKM’s inventory by monitoring stock levels and ordering new merchandise based on customer demand
• Liaising with vendors to arrange deliveries and shipments of merchandise
• Collection of donations from across the Area
• Work with the CEO on prospective site acquisition for future expansion in the South Kent area
• Support the business strategy and implement new plans / ideas to achieve business targets
• Working with Shop Managers has final responsibility for store layout, product placement, visual merchandising and store standards guidelines.
• Shares responsibility with Shop Manager on retail pricing strategy (store manager operational delivery) 
• Responsibility with CEO and working with Shop Managers on all promotional activities including retail calendar and with store managers on windows.

 Retail Area Manager - The Person:

• Outstanding track record in achieving sales and profit targets within retail or charity management
• Passionate about charity retailing
• Passionate about delivering results through the effective management of people
• Demonstrable experience in analysing financial data to make informed commercial decisions
• Experience of distance managing a diverse team of people
• Excellence in forming working partnerships with other organisations
• Full Driving Licence

If you have experience within retail as an Area Manager, District Manager or Multi Site Manager within the charity sector and are interested in working for a great charity who have fantastic training and progression platform in place, please do not hesitate to apply today with your CV and letter of application.