Retail Area Manager
4 months ago
Be a part of the KOOKAI team - a family owned business with a great workplace culture. We are looking for someone who is keen to immerse themselves within the fashion industry and provide strong support and guidance to our retail stores.
- This is a 12 month parental relief contract (full time and or part time) and a great career opportunity to gain further leadership skills within the industry_
Reporting directly to the National Retail Manager, the Area Manager will oversee our four Kookai Boutiques in Auckland; located at Sylvia Park, Commercial Bay, Ponsonby and Teed Street.
This role is responsible for providing effective and supportive leadership with a particular focus on leading and inspiring a team towards delivery of total customer satisfaction and driving, achieving and exceeding targets. You will be responsible for ensuring staffing, service and store standard levels are maintained in line with company expectations.
Take the next step in your fashion career to lead, manage and propel our business to further success.
**What you’ll be doing**:
- Developing and maintaining a harmonious working environment to maximise employee commitment and engagement
- Training and coaching Store Managers following our inhouse training guidelines and programs
- Facilitating group training workshops and ensuring training is completed by Store Managers within each store for all team members
- Guiding, supporting and conducting, when necessary, performance discussions in line with company policies
- Achieving store profit contribution and KPI targets within the region
- Ensuring store operational requirements are effectively completed
- Ensuring a high standard of store presentation and visual merchandising is maintained
- Analysing sales trends and opportunities and actioning plan accordingly
**What we’d love from you**:
- Proven experience as an Area Manager and/or Multi Site Manager within a fashion retail business
- Proven experience in leading, engaging and motivating teams
- Proven success in achieving sales and KPI results
- Ability to present information and respond to queries from senior management on sales performance figures and relevant stock and store information
- Excellent and superior communication skills
- Pragmatic, hands on approach
- Ability to prioritize tasks and work under pressure
- Organizational skills
- Attention to detail
- Financial acumen with the ability to read and interpret basic financial reports, including P&L statements
- Ability to multitask and work with a sense of urgency
- Problem solving skills
- Adaptability
- A driver's license and vehicle
**Benefits**:
The Kookai culture is one that is supportive, passionate and collaborative which makes this an enjoyable workplace as reflected by our high engagement and staff retention levels. We are all about our people and offer a 50% employee discount, quarterly clothing vouchers to build your KOOKAI wardrobe, quarterly incentives, personalised in-house training, wellbeing programs including birthday leave and wellness leave, mentoring programs, and yearly conferences.
We are also really proud to be working for a greater purpose by having the opportunity to support our Katalyst Foundation and contribute to helping break the cycle of poverty in Fiji.
Embrace this rare career opportunity to be a part of our Kookai family and lead our wonderful New Zealand region
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