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Some of our hosts include River Island, M&S, Matalan, Tesco and many more!\nWe are currently recruiting for a Area Manager on a permanent, full time basis to cover the following locations -\nDoncaster, Pudsey, Leeds City Centre, Ellesmere Port, Handforth Dean, Manchester Trafford Centre, Manchester, Liverpool, Warrington, Sheffield Meadowhall, Preston, Bangor NW\nThis is a Monday - Friday role working 7 hours per day. You will be required to travel around to numerous different stores within your area so please ensure you have access to your own vehicle and have a full driving licence.\nResponsibilities;\nTo drive sales through consistently high visual merchandising & operational standards\n\nTo develop & maintain a highly capable team - providing induction, coaching & support to ensure the Team Leaders are set up to succeed.\n\nTo act as first line support to the Operations Team to support & deliver process efficiencies & business improvement opportunities.\n\nTo directly line manage a group of Team Leaders, coaching them to achieve process efficiency & high-quality standards in the field\n\nMonitors instore standards, sharing best practice amongst the TLs raising the bar on area performance.\n\nManages escalated host concerns around quality & standards, resolving these within agreed parameters.\n\nProactively identifies TL performance improvement opportunities - providing coaching & escalating as required.\n\nHolds responsibility for induction - ensures all new TLs receive a warm welcome into the business & are supported throughout their probation period. Provides meaningful feedback & targets for improvement where required.\n\nEmbeds an effective buddy system meaning that any new TL starters or a period of TL absence is not reflected in adverse zone performance or poor feedback from hosts.\n\nRecognises & celebrates great performance.\n\nWorks with other Area Managers & under the direction of Central Support Teams to identify trends in learning & development gaps & escalates where necessary.\n\nSuggests opportunities to drive improvement & efficiency & is actively involved in any improvement work or project.\n\nSupports the BOMS with delivering field coms, launches and initiatives and obtaining meaningful feedback.\n\nWorks as first line support with the Operations team to embed new ways of working, identifying areas for process & quality improvements & shaping action plans.\n\nWorks under the direction of the Operations Manager to shape & deliver communication & training.\n\nRequirements\nRequirements -\nExpert in field operations, achieving high standards in their current role.\n\nSupervisory experience\n\nStrong communication skills - confident with delivering training.\n\nAble to use own initiative to plan their time.\n\nCompetent with technology\n\nConfident & positive with good interpersonal skills\n\nProven work experience in retail\n\nFashion trend aware\n\nPlease send an updated CV to be considered!","description_format":"text","description_chars":3057,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Commerce","Jewelry","Wholesale"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-03T15:48:40Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":95,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.946,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":11,"reasons":["conf:4","wave","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/dck-area-manager-retail-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/dck-area-manager-retail-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-05T10:51:55Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":13935,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-06T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4417490},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4417490"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fdck-area-manager-retail-2"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fdck-area-manager-retail-2"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fdck-area-manager-retail-2"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/dck-area-manager-retail-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fdck-area-manager-retail-2"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3688619}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"dck.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3688619},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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