Area Manager – Midlands

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🕒 May 30

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Space NK

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1993

💄 Beauty

🛒 Retail

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Private Equity Round on 2001-12

Beauty • Retail • eCommerce

Space NK is a luxury beauty retailer that specializes in offering a curated selection of skincare, makeup, haircare, fragrance, and wellness products from renowned brands. With stores located in the UK, US, and Europe, Space NK provides a personalized shopping experience while showcasing a wide range of trending beauty products, exclusive brands, and expert editorial content to guide customers in their beauty journeys.

📋 Description

• Translate regional and business strategy into clear executable store plans ensuring initiatives and change programmes are embedded consistently across all stores. • Act as a visible and credible leader; driving adoption of new ways of working, tools, systems and service models e.g. Connected By Beauty. • Identify commercial opportunities and operational improvement areas - converting insight into focused action plans that accelerate performance and capability. • Analyse area performance, customer behaviour and competitor activity to inform tactical decisions and continuous improvement. • Maintain structured, commercially focused and forward-looking communication with the Regional Manager, providing insight, risk identification and recommendations that shape future direction. • Own delivery of area performance across sales budgets, LFL growth, ATV, AUS, conversion and OMNI targets through strong leadership and execution. • Drive customer acquisition, retention and loyalty growth through consistent customer-first behaviours and commercial focus. • Use data and insight to challenge performance, embed accountability and coach Store and Cluster Managers to maximise commercial outcomes. • Ensure disciplined execution of store plans, campaigns and promotional priorities across the area. • Lead consistent execution of standards across payroll, stock accuracy, shrinkage, health & safety and loss prevention. • Partner with Store Managers to embed new processes, systems and tools that improve productivity, capability and cost control. • Lead the preparation, mobilisation and operational readiness for new store openings and refits. • Ensure high standards of visual merchandising, stock availability and operational readiness that reflect brand expectations and drive commercial performance. • Lead, coach and develop Store and Cluster Managers to strengthen commercial capability, leadership effectiveness and accountability. • Own succession planning, talent identification and performance management across the area to build a robust and future-ready pipeline. • Foster a high-performance, inclusive and customer-first culture that encourages ownership, collaboration and growth.

🎯 Requirements

• Commercially driven field leader with strong operational excellence and execution capability. • Proven experience leading multi-site retail teams and developing store leadership capability. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, able to translate insight into action and performance improvement. • Resilient, adaptable and delivery-focused in fast-paced retail environments. • Collaborative, influential communicator who builds trust and drives accountability through others.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Flexible working hours • Professional development budget • Home office setup allowance • Global team events