**The Opportunity**:
Join the Dulux Trade team as a Network Area Manager and support the smooth running and ongoing excellence of our Dulux Trade Centre Stores, Depots and Inspirations franchises through sales, distribution and operational efficiencies.
This hands-on role will see you managing customer relationships and developing teams of sales professionals to achieve store goals and metrics and spear-heading internal change for business-wide growth. You'll be supporting several stores and depots across Sydney and surrounding regions to maximise business sales and profitability (Monthly overnight stays may be required). Day to day you'll be:
- Coaching and motivating your Store Managers, Franchise owners and their teams
- Developing succession plans to drive team engagement
- Supporting Store Managers and Franchise owners with financial performance and budgets
- Driving in-store promotions and marketing to deliver profitable growth
- Influencing and managing internal change management projects/processes
- Building and maintaining a positive team culture and strong safety focus
- Ensuring store compliance through audits and staff training
- Supporting stores to deliver excellence in customer service, safety, stock management and store presentation
**What you will bring and develop**:
This is a role with real scope, so you'll need to bring strong team management skills, solid sales acumen, and a results-orientated approach to succeed. As a confident problem solver and negotiator, you'll drive business improvements from the front, supporting teams with change along the way. Other key skills and experience include:
- Experience coaching, developing, and engaging a team within a retail environment
- Solid Multi-Site retail management experience
- The understanding and ability to influence internal change
- Budget and financial management skills
- Confidence with inventory and stock management processes
- Proven experience and a passion for mentoring teams and succession planning
In joining our Dulux team you'll be part of a group who are passionate and proud of what they do, enabling you to drive your career forward.
**Our Place**:
With a rich history spanning more than a century, we are home to some of Australia and New Zealand's most trusted and iconic brands. These include household names such as Dulux, Selleys, Yates, Cabot's and B&D. A career at DuluxGroup means becoming a part of our exciting growth journey and working with us to Imagine a Better Place. At DuluxGroup, you will:
- ** Live our values**. Work in an environment where how you achieve great results is just as important as what you achieve. You'll be empowered to unleash your imagination while being consumer driven and customer focussed. We want you to run the business as your own while always valuing people, working safely and respecting the environment.
- ** Learn and grow** through our range of targeted learning and development programs, as well as via genuine career pathways across our broad and diverse range of businesses and brands.
- ** Work flexibly**. We understand that a "one size fits all" approach doesn't work, and are committed to providing a flexible work environment that enables our people to manage their work, family and lifestyle responsibilities in their own unique way. It is part of what we do and who we are.
- ** Care for our communities and the environment**. We encourage our people to play a role in their communities, including by offering a paid "Supporting Our Communities" action day each year. An embedded focus on sustainability also drives us to deliver on our vision of "A Future Without Harm" by understanding the environmental impacts associated with our business activities, including products, operations and people.
- ** Be rewarded** with competitive remuneration and benefits plus a range of other perks, including discounts on our market leading products and an array of recognition and reward initiatives.
Across the ANZ region we operate 21 main manufacturing sites, 21 distribution centres and more than 120 company owned trade outlets allowing our people to enjoy diverse career opportunities.
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