Branch Manager

Manpower; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A staffing agency is seeking a Branch Manager in Southampton to oversee brand delivery in the UK. This role involves leading a team of consultants to provide temporary workforce solutions, driving business development, and implementing strategies to meet regional goals. Candidates should have prior experience in sales and managing teams, particularly in temporary staffing. Strong collaboration and coaching skills are essential. The position requires a driving license and is based fully on-site.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of maximizing business development.
• Previous experience managing staff in a sales environment.
• Experience with temporary staffing workforce.

Responsibilities

• Lead a dedicated team of consultants to deliver workforce solutions.
• Meet clients and drive new business opportunities.
• Implement and drive strategy as set by the Head of Staffing.

Skills

Managing staff in a sales environment

Maximising business development

Developing temporary staffing workforce

Collaboration

Coaching and influencing staff

Job description

Location: Southampton (Based fully on site)

Role level: Senior - Reporting to Head of Staffing

Driving License ESSENTIAL

Role Summary: The Branch Manager is responsible for Manpower's UK brand delivery within a designated region of the UK for Convenience temporary and permanent business across all verticals within the Manpower specialisms - driving, logistics, manufacturing and ancillary, you will be expected to maximise GP opportunity throughout your client base in each of these core areas.

You will lead a dedicated team of consultants focused on delivering temporary workforce solutions to both national accounts and retail business. Your dedicated team may be made of pure 360 retail consultants along with pure delivery consultants that have separate focus driving a high ROI.

The region will be managed from one central office with your consultant team being based within this with the wider geography of regional responsibility.

Key Responsibilities

Sales:

• Ensures strong business mix of Manpower Specialisms
• Actively leads business development through the team
• Meets clients and drives new business opportunity across all verticals

Strategy:

• Translates, implements and drives strategy as set by the Head of Staffing
• Influences strategy through active feedbackli>
• Delivers regional goals as set by the Head of staffing in line with wider strategy

Collaboration:

• Performance accountability
• Works with the Operational excellence team to drive efficient business
• Works with the head of driving to maintain logistics footprint and ensure legal compliance

People:

• Builds a diverse talent pipeline
• Coach direct reports to build capability
• Creates time for wider team that enables a coaching environment to focus and achieve performance expectations
• A "One Manpower" mind-set is critical - you will be collaborating with peers across the brands and support functions to drive successful outcomes across the wider business. You will also be directly responsible for implementing the Manpower brand strategy and ensuring alignment across your peer group developing your area of responsibility with a corporate mind-set. You will demonstrate flexibility and agility, embracing corporate initiatives and gaining support and followership from your teams, and will adopt digital recruitment strategies, ensuring your teams are using up to date and relevant channels to recruit for our clients.

Self-Development:

• Develops relationships across front and back office and ManpowerGroup brands
• Demonstrates growth mind-set
• Builds profile through thought leadership and networking within region.

Efficiency:

• Understanding P&L including ratio management
• Drives system adoption and utilisation
• Data Analytics/ metrics as part of business thinking.

Experience/Skills required:

• Previous experience managing staff in a sales environment
• Proven track record of maximising business development
• Experience in developing businesses with temporary staffing workforce
• Understanding the importance of collaboration
• Coaching and influencing staff.

Our Standards

Clarity:

Takes time to understand and share our organisation's vision and strategy with others, holds themselves and others accountable to deliver on our common goals, mindfully gives honest and regular feedback and openly receives it so we can all learn and deliver our best.

Care:

Leads themselves and others with care, respecting people as people first and promoting diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in their environment so people feel heard and valued, listens to understand and then communicates purposefully and consistently, intentionally develops themselves and inspires, coaches and empowers the development of others.

Grow:

Openly contributes thoughts, asks questions and challenges appropriately so that we make better, courageous and timely decisions, collaborates with others to identify current ideas, trends and perspectives (internally and externally) to continuously improve and transform what we do, builds on our successes and actively learns from mistakes and missed opportunities to progress toward our ambition.