Area Manager

Discover your next career adventure with Dans

With over 260 stores and 6500+ team members we’re on a mission to share our passion for good wine and great times. We welcome people in. That includes you. If you’re someone with a passion for drinks and a thirst for knowledge, there’s always something ahead for you here.

• Love what you do and leave your mark
• Take complete ownership of Area and lead and inspire our store teams
• Melbourne Metro and regional stores

As an integral leader within the State Leadership team, in this Area Manager you will lead and inspire our store leaders and teams to deliver upon all elements of the Dan Murphy's strategy. 

People are at the forefront of our business and your exceptional leadership, commercial acumen and guidance will support development of our team, foster engagement and inspire ways to evolve and improve.

In this role, you will be responsible for leading around 18 stores, comprising 18 store leaders, 36 assistant store leaders and over 350 team members across the Area group in both Melbourne Metro and regional Victoria.

It's an exciting time at Dan Murphy’s where our business is evolving and growing.  You will work closely with the State Manager and your peers to deliver great outcomes and results for our customers and the business, through our people.

You are a person who acts as a true leader and is aligned with our values and ways of working - we keep things simple, especially for our store teams, to ensure we can focus on what’s important - our customers.

Sound good? Read on.

Here is a taste of what you can expect in this role:

• Proactively contribute to the delivery of the Dan’s strategy with the State Leadership team and leading your Area to bring the strategy to life in stores.
• Communicate and build team commitment to business strategies through creating alignment, providing direction and role clarity, for the  achievement of safety, customer, financial, operational and strategic goals and objectives for the Area.
• Lead and Inspire your team, fostering a great culture.
• Lead the delivery on key projects for the State.
• Analyse key metrics, including customer and team feedback, and provide coaching for each store to achieve Area and state goals.
• Lead Dan’s transformation and change agenda while maintaining focus on business performance.
• Develop talent pipelines and future leaders by providing regular feedback to your team, creating meaningful development plans and ensuring succession and ongoing capability is maintained.

Now let’s talk about you: 

To be successful in this role, you will be self driven with a focus on a balance of business results alongside warmth and compassion with a genuine love for team and customer.  Ideally you will demonstrate experience in the following key areas: 

• Exceptional leadership with a focus on collaboration and stakeholder engagement
• Proven success as a muti-site retail leader.
• Ability to influence and drive outcomes for the State and Area group
• A modern leader with a strong track record of commercial delivery.
• Innovative, forward thinking and resilient, and an ability to adapt and lead teams through change.
• A real team player
• Curiosity to learn and self develop.
   

The benefits are good too! 

• We offer flexible working in every sense
• An exclusive discount card for BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Woolworths, BIG W and other Endeavour Group brands, including our ALH pubs
• Monthly meeting-free days 
• Your health and wellbeing is your most important asset, and as one of our valued team members, it’s our first priority. You will have a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing
• Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career. This is just the start, so dream big.

At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone’s welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply.

We are together creators

With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, Endeavour Group is big on sociability. Together we create the moments that bring millions of people together. And together we have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals. We’re serious about creating a safe, inclusive and fun place to rock up to where equal opportunity is key, and flexibility is part of how we roll.  

We’re all about creating a more sociable future - for our customers and each other. If this job excites you - and you’re close-enough on the requirements, reach out, we’d love to hear from you.

You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or at endeavourgroupcareers.com.au.

Our Talent Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. Endeavour Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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