Area Manager Jobs

The Area Manager is directly responsible to the District Manager for the proper discharge of his/her duties. He/she may delegate a smaller portion of his authority to other qualified personnel but does not relinquish his/her responsibility/ownership. The position is primarily a field position and not necessarily an office position. His/her primary function is to provide oversight and “hands on” intervention of all field operations while administering corporate policies.

The following are the duties and responsibilities to successfully perform the job along with other duties as assigned.

Physical Job Requirements:

As Necessary:

• Several hours of stepping up on step stools, kneeling, standing, and stooping down to count merchandise from top shelves to bottom shelves. (We commit to being on site until job completion)
• Standing or Walking. Standing is to remain on one's feet in an upright position without moving about.
• Pushing or pulling.
• Reaching at or Below Shoulder Level.
• Sitting. Remaining in a seated position for extended hours.
• Alternate Sitting or Standing at Will.
• Step stools must be lifted off the floor and carried, not dragged, from location to location.
• Frequent reaching and stretching to view merchandise. (Duration varies based on customer type.)
• Frequent auto or air travel.
• Lifting or carrying a maximum of 30 lbs.
• Accurately entering data into a handheld data collection device (10-key data entry) accompanied by a handheld scanner.
• Keyboarding for extended periods.

Supervisory Responsibilities and Expectations

• Track and maintain field equipment and company vehicles.
• Ensure district’s need for people, equipment, supplies, and transportations are in place for next six months deployment.
• Hire, train and motivate auditors to meet District needs.
• Monitor and improve performance of all team members on a weekly basis.
• Experience in working independently with minimal supervision / flexible work schedule availability.
• Review previous week’s projections for goal results. Empower team through positive feedback and constructive solutions for improvement.
• Publish inventory schedules 3 weeks advance in PICSOL.
• Instill and maintain exceptional customer satisfaction.
• Oversight and Ownership for day-to-day operations.
• Note: not applicable to offices greater than $1.2 million in annual revenue.
• Verify that auditors have accepted inventory schedules in PICSOL and adjust scheduling based on refusals.
• Manage inventories start to finish – 25 hours / week on average.
• Scheduling of accounts and staff to maximize execution.
• Enforce all company policies and procedures utilizing the most recent updates provided by the Corporate Office.
• Check all stores and text Regional Manager of status within first 30 minutes of startups.
• Review weekly projections and adjust team as necessary to achieve goal.
• Train team members on proper customer service, inventory controls, and communication skills; address team member performance issues; identify and develop promo-table team members.
• Transport team members to and from inventories when necessary.
• Pre-inventory contacts/calls with scheduled stores 1-2 weeks out. Provide contact information and answer any questions/concerns from store management. Resolve and confirm resolutions with store manager as needed.
• Complete daily/weekly office duties assigned by upper Management, and all other tasks as assigned, as needed.
• Control all expenses using business plans and projecting ROI.

Profitability

• Match dot rankings to product density.
• Ensure you have most current updates on hand.
• Monitor asset management at the district level
• Monitor projections to ensure stores are planned for positive ROI.
• Example: Billing amount is $ 3,000 you can only spend $1,000 on salary, travel and auto.
• Multiply average team pay by count time and add travel and auto. This needs to be approximately one third of total billing for store.
• Review staffing for correct dot mix.
• District store history can be used as a guide. Divide total hours by 6-hour count time to get number of people needed. Refine by dot ranking scheduled.
• Enforce all company policies and procedures.
• Ensure higher end dot ranking on travel stores to save extra company vehicles, travel, personal auto.
• Ensure personnel are scheduled correctly you cannot have someone scheduled to do RX, run the store, and count 100% of time etc.
• Physically witness all district equipment inventories.
• Review flow plan with supervisor.
• Review store map. Calculate hours needed by avg. times per side, ends, perimeter, checkouts, bulk displays.

Other duties as directed by your Regional Manager, VP of Field Operations, and the Corporate Office.