Retail Area Manager - North Coast

The St Vincent de Paul Society is a leading provider of community support services, whose mission it is to shape a more just and compassionate society - we truly care about what we do and the difference we make to people's lives.

Your New Role

The Retail Area Manager will oversee approximately 11 Vinnies retail stores in a region covering Macksville 2447 in the north to Tea Gardens 2324 in the south of Mid-North Coast.  This is a permanent, full-time role based in Port Macquarie 2444.  Take the challenge of driving the team towards high performance through effective training, motivation, and coaching.  You will have good fashion sense, extensive retail management skills and strong leadership capabilities.

Reporting to the Regional Manager, you will:

• Oversee the operations of Vinnies shops; motivate, manage, and coach to ensure stores’ performance objectives are achieved.
• Ensure compliance with operational standards
• Maintain Work Health and Safety measures.
• Regularly review and analyse sales performance
• Manage recruitment, performance, and training of Store Managers and sales assistants.
• Develop innovative strategies to enable stores to meet and/or exceed targets.
• Varied role where your experience with volunteers will be highly regarded.

Please click the Position Description for more information about the role.

To be successful in this role, you will need: 

• Relevant tertiary qualification/s in business, management and/or retail and demonstrated significant experience working in the management of large retail outlet/s.
• Demonstrated ability in successfully leading retail and supply chain operations.
• Proven people management skills including leading, motivating, coaching and developing teams.
• Proven ability to review and analyse business data and analytics to enable effective reporting and decision-making on operational performance.
• High-level understanding of current issues facing the retail sector and not for profit industry.
• Financial acumen and experience in managing P&L
• NSW driver licence and ability to travel across the covered region.

If you have questions about this role, please email Kim Boyd (Regional Manager) kim.boyd@vinnies.org.au, quoting: Retail Area Manager, Mid-North Coast/VIN2718.   

If this sounds like you, please apply now by submitting your application with a Resume including your responses addressing the key requirements listed above.  

Information on how to apply 

The Society is committed to being a Child Safe organisation, further information can be found in the Society’s commitment to Safeguarding Children & Young People. Prior to an offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete the pre-employment checks including a Police check & Working with Children check.  

St Vincent de Paul Society (NSW) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to engaging a diverse workforce. We take pride in the diversity of our people and encourage applications from people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQIA, candidates of any or no religious beliefs and applicants of all ages.

 St Vincent de Paul (NSW) has a COVID- 19 vaccination policy that has identified this role as requiring a full COVID-19 vaccination.  Medical exemptions with the NSW government contraindication form will be considered, subject to a satisfactory risk assessment.