Regional Retail Operations Manager
Avatar Advisory - Avatar Human Capital
- Johannesburg, Gauteng
- Permanent
- Full-time
The Opportunity Reporting directly to the Co-Founders, the Senior Regional Retail Operations Manager is the strategic conductor who turns four individual stores into one perfectly-tuned orchestra. You’ll mentor store managers, shape the customer journey, partner with marketing on revenue-driving campaigns, and own every KPI that spells sustainable
expansion.What You’ll Own
Strategic & Commercial People & Culture Operational Excellence
- Set & execute multi-store growth roadmap in line with annual budget.
- Analyse sales trends, clienteling data & market intel to spot expansion opportunities (new categories, pop-ups,services).
- Partner with Marketing on launches, events & omnichannel campaigns, ensuring floor teams convert traffic into loyalists.
- Lead, inspire & upskill 40+ team members through four direct-report store managers.
- Head up full employee lifecycle – recruiting, onboarding, performance, succession planning
- Standardise SOPs, visual merchandising standards & loss-prevention protocols across all locations.
- Own P&L per store: forecast, monitor & course-correct OPEX and staffing spend.
- 10+ years senior retail management
- Responsibility (luxury fashion, prestige beauty or premium lifestyle sectors preferred).
- True people magnet – builds trust, coaches high-performers, addresses under-performance decisively yet humanely.
- Data-obsessed and systems-savvy (POS, ERP/inventory, workforce planning, Excel/Looker/Power BI).
- Comfortable collaborating with Marketing, E-commerce, Finance & Logistics: you speak ROI, CPA and GMROI as fluently as clienteling.