The Athlete's Foot Area Manager
Our team members are highly passionate about inspiring, motivating and empowering our customers to better their best. We believe that people ultimately want to lead a healthy and fit way of life and we want to empower them to do so by providing correctly fitted footwear and personalised service.
From their first pair of shoes to their last, our team are there to ensure that whatever activity they want to do, they're wearing the right shoes. Our service extends beyond our four walls to support our local communities by engaging with health professionals, schools, and local sporting clubs.
We're looking for an experienced Area Manager who is eager to accelerate in their career and oversee a portfolio of high profile stores located across South East Queensland.
You will work closely with the State Manager on driving high performing and successful people, store performance, and operations initiatives. This opportunity will also include involvement in local community activations, partnering with sporting events and managing relationships with health care professionals we work with.
Key Responsibilities:
* Ensuring efficient operation of stores to achieve optimal results in sales targets, KPI's, store presentation, visual merchandising, stock levels, wage control and shrinkage
* Motivating Store Managers to achieve optimal results in KPI's & added value targets across stores
* Closely monitoring store sales to achieve daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly targets - acknowledging outstanding results and identifying any areas of missed opportunity
* Effectively manage wage costs to weekly wage targets, company rostering standards and following GRIA guidelines
* Coach and mentor Store Managers to maintain high team morale and encourage the development of their store teams by ensuring training and succession plans are in place
* Ensure efficient OH&S management and adhere to state and national OH&S legislation
Benefits:
* A competitive base salary + super + car allowance + tools of the trade
* A lucrative bonus and incentive structure paid monthly
* 40% off ALL Accent Group brands | Hype DC, Skechers, Platypus, Vans & many more
* Access to our Employee Benefits program which includes discounted Gym Memberships & Health Insurance packages
* Be a part of Accent Group leadership conferences, awards nights, product launch events and much more
* Work amongst premium product alongside fellow passionate and dedicated sneakerheads
* Training & development to grow your career
To be successful in this role, you will have:
* Demonstrated 2+ years as a Senior Store Manager or Multi Site / Cluster Manager
* A passion for leading & inspiring a team to succeed
* The ability to think strategically to identify missed opportunities and have a proven track record in driving sales and KPI's
* A sound operational & strategical skill set and experience with stock control and visual merchandising
* Experience with effectively managing a roster & wage control
* Ability to build strong professional relationships with Support Office departments
* A motivated & driven 'Make it Happen' attitude
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and inclusion. We believe in the diversity of our people across age, gender, identity, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, physical and mental ability. We strive on creating an equal employment environment where everyone from any background can be themselves. The Athlete's Foot acknowledges, and pays respect, to the Traditional Owners and ongoing custodians of the land.