Regional Manager

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About the role

Role Purpose

As a Regional Manager at Matalan, you will be responsible for leading multiple stores within your region to implement the business strategy; motivating and inspiring your team to drive profitable sales and industry leading colleague engagement. Your role involves strategic planning and influencing stakeholders from across the business along with hands-on retail operational responsibilities.

• Lead, coach, and inspire store management teams across 30 stores to exceed business goals and deliver excellent customer omni-channel experience. Foster a culture of high performance, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee operations across multiple store locations managing full P&L responsibility for your region. Ensuring high-quality execution of Matalan's policies, procedures and standards whilst remaining agile to business challenges.
• Initiate action plans linked to the overall business strategy to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. Use data and market best practice to identify and address areas for improvement on your region and influence national policy.
• Visit stores regularly to review performance, provide feedback, and address any challenges. Collaborate with store teams and peers across the business to ensure best practices and Matalan's standards are met and continuously improved.
• Build and influence relationships with key stakeholders across the business to collaborate on key activity and ensure retail needs are communicated and considered in broader business strategies.
• Deliver the shrink and business risk agenda for your region to maximise profit.
• Drive a customer and colleague-centric approach through the store teams focused on improving the shopping experience through highly motivated teams.
• Lead colleague engagement by creating a positive, inclusive work environment that values diverse perspectives and teamwork, encouraging colleagues to use their strengths and share new ideas reflecting the diversity of our customers and locations we operate in.
• Lead talent development in the region by focusing on coaching and professional growth to build a strong talent pipeline and drive internal mobility.

About You

• Proven experience in a regional management role preferably with clothing experience.
• Strong leadership and highly-engaging communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to inspire and lead teams across multiple locations.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Flexible and able to respond to changing market challenges.
• Curious about change with ideally previous transformational experience.

About Matalan

From humble beginnings to disruptive innovations in the retail industry, find out about how Matalan is ever-evolving here.

We know as a team, we are stronger together - we champion equality for all and make lasting connections that go beyond work. We thrive off our inclusive culture, encouraging our colleagues to bring their true selves to work and contributing to collective creativity, open-mindedness and growth.

We want give every candidate the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the application and interview process and then ultimately in their role. If you require any adjustments during our recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know.

In the event that a high volume of suitable applications are received, the post may close prior to the specified closing date. Please apply as soon as possible if interested.