Matalan
Regional Manager - Scotland
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Working Pattern: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 38.75
Regional Manager - Scotland
About Matalan
At Matalan, we believe looking stylish and making your home feel great shouldn't cost the earth.
From humble beginnings in the North West over 40 years ago, we've grown into one of the UK's best known fashion and homeware retailers, serving millions of customers across the UK and internationally. We might have grown, but we've stayed true to who we are - hardworking, down to earth, and always focused on giving our customers great quality, style and value they can rely on.
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.
Modern, Stylish, Great Quality and Value - We're in our New Matalan Era, and we'd love you to join us - whether that's as a candidate or customer, we're confident you'll love where we're heading!
We're looking for an experienced and inspiring Regional Manager to lead our Scotland region.
As a Regional Manager at Matalan, you will be responsible for leading multiple stores across Scotland, implementing the business strategy, and motivating and inspiring your teams to drive profitable sales and industry-leading colleague engagement. Your role will combine strategic planning and cross-functional stakeholder management with hands-on retail operational leadership, ensuring every store delivers an exceptional experience for both customers and colleagues.
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- 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.
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Skills And Experience
- 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.
Benefits
- Car or Car Allowance of £7,500
- Generous holidays with the option to purchase more
- 20% company bonus + an additional 10% retail bonus based on performance
- 30% colleague discount
- Healthcare & pension
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