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  • Posted: Mar 19, 2025
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • Ares Holdings, a South African company, connects global brands with Southern African consumers through a multi-channel network encompassing 2500+ wholesale doors, 50+ retail stores, and e-commerce platforms. Our business model promotes long-term and sustainable brand growth within the footwear, apparel, and accessories sector.
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    Retail Area Manager (Gauteng) - Maternity Cover

    KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

    The outputs / results / outcomes you are accountable for delivering:

    KEY ACCOUNTABILITY 1: PURPOSE, VALUES, CULTURE:

    The alignment of all Stores people behind a clear purpose, values and strategy to ensure a consistent Brand-aligned Customer experience.

    • Communicate Business Purpose & Values
    • Communicate and drive Retail strategies and operational goals
    • Ensure that all stores people have a clear and consistent focus
    • Drive consistent, Brand-aligned customer satisfaction
    • Morale
    • Commitment
    • Alignment
    • Work quality
    • Focus
    • Culture.

    KEY ACCOUNTABILITY 2: RETAIL OPERATIONS:

    Ensure that all retail operations activities are consistently executed according to Standard Operating Procedures.

    • Ensure that all operational activities support an efficient, easy Customer experience
    • Ensure that facilities, equipment, tools, systems, security and physical environment is conducive to optimum performance
    • SOP’s in place
    • Adherence to SOP’s
    • OHSA adherence
    • Legislative Compliance
    • Audit Reports
    • Quality of on-site work
    • ‘Housekeeping’
    • Customer experience
    • On-site cost control
    • Ensure that Stores SOP’s are well and consistently communicated
    • Facilitate appropriate technical/functional training
    • Ensure that Store managers have the requires tools to manage well
    • Facilitate effective engagement between Stores & HO
    • Ensure that the disaster recovery plan is regularly refreshed and communicated as appropriate
    • Ensure that the necessary occupational health & safety regulations are adhered to
    • Submit weekly & monthly reports as required
    • On-site loss management

    KEY ACCOUNTABILITY 3: PEOPLE:

    Ensuring that the performance and productivity of people is optimized.

    • Ensure that stores are well staffed and that contingencies are in place
    • Ensure role clarity and effective goal-setting
    • Drive in-store Training Programme to build front-line capability
    • Monitor the application of the ‘HR Value Chain’ & adherence to people-related SOP’s
    • Submit weekly and monthly reports as required
    • In-store Product knowledge
    • Level of Customer service
    • HR Metrics
    • Retention
    • Role accountability
    • Performance & productivity
    • Adherence to HCM SOP’s, including BCEA, LRA, EEA, WCA, etc.

    KEY ACCOUNTABILITY 4: FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT:

    Ensure that the key financial indicators reflect good stores health.

    • Manage financial performance parameters, goals and targets
    • Drive Country plan for Area
    • Drive revenue, quantity, margin and operating income targets
    • Submit weekly and monthly reports as required
    • Ensure that the relevant regulatory / statutory requirements are adhered to e.g. VAT, Employee PAYE, etc.
    • EBITDA
    • ROGA
    • PBT
    • Income Statement health
    • Balance Sheet
    • Audit Reports

    KEY ACCOUNTABILITY 5: SALES & MARKETING:

    • Growing market share through the retention of existing customers, acquisition of new customers and the maximization of their spend.
    • Brand management
    • Key customer relationship management
    • Public relations
    • ‘Ambassadorship’
    • Implement promotional initiatives as required
    • Ensure that VM standards are adhered to
    • Ensure that all stores reflect the correct quality standards of cleanliness, tidiness, safety, visual impact and good housekeeping
    • Customer feedback
    • Customer retention
    • Customer base growth
    • Productivity of product segments
    • In-store product knowledge
    • Overall visual impact of stores

    REQUIREMENTS:

    • Grade 12 or equivalent
    • 2 – 3 years experience in a similar position
    • Driver’s license code B
    • Must have your own reliable vehicle
    • Tertiary qualification (Advantageous)

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