Area Manager

About the Company:

Countrywide have an exciting opportunity for an Area Manager to join us in Devon. The Area Manager role will offer a competitive basic salary and substantial OTE: £75,000 - £100,000 as well as a company car/car allowance and generous staff benefits. As an Area Manager, you will lead and oversee management of the sales branches and colleagues within your region. You will work to meet and exceed performance and financial targets set, by driving engagement and collaboration amongst your teams. This is an opportunity to be part of the Senior Management Team within our national sales branch networks. It is an exciting time to join Countrywide.

About the Role:

Your role will involve:

• Coach, develop and effectively manage all employees to ensure that performance is optimised across the board.
• Ensure employee engagement is maximised through action planning, pro-active recruitment, minimising attrition and driving retention of your teams.
• Manage, monitor, and report on the region's performance against agreed key financial business indicators on the region's P&L and against set performance metrics to ensure delivery of income targets.
• Take appropriate action with branches trading at a loss or below budget.
• Grow market share significantly by adopting pro-active working processes and identifying business growth opportunities.

Experience:

• Demonstrable experience of building and leading high performing estate agency teams in fast paced and demanding environments
• Been a valued member of high performing teams within a highly customer centric service or retail industry environment.
• Proven ability to influence, shape and lead meaningful change.
• Inspirational leadership ability, with approachability and humility
• Prominent levels of P&L accountability and commercial exposure

Next Steps:

If this sounds like the next step for you in your Estate Agency Senior Management career, we want to hear from you. Apply today with your CV or reach out to hear more.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Connells Group UK is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.