VacancyTitle: Area Retail Manager Leeds/West Yorkshire

Motor Fuel Group; Leeds; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life Insurance

Enhanced Pension Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Training & Development

Employee Recognition Scheme

Online Discounts

Job summary

Motor Fuel Group is looking for an Area Retail Manager in Leeds/West Yorkshire to ensure the implementation of company policies across multiple stations. This role will involve overseeing health and safety compliance, managing fuel audits, and building relationships with suppliers to maximize sales.

The successful candidate will have a proven track record in retail or contract management, excellent people skills, and a high level of self-motivation. The position offers a range of benefits including life insurance and an enhanced pension scheme.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in the forecourt and retail sector.
• Ability to work demanding hours and prioritize duties.
• Good people skills for building effective relationships.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with health and safety policies at all stations.
• Conduct monthly fuel audits to ensure accurate payments.
• Manage communications according to company policy.

Skills

Contract management experience

Self-motivation

People skills

Numeracy and attention to detail

Team player

Job description

Area Retail Manager Leeds/West Yorkshire

Location: Leeds/West Yorkshire

This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy.

JOB PURPOSE

To ensure the implementation of the Company’s policies and procedures in respect of a predetermined region of company owned stations.

MAIN ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Ensuring that all stations are operated in accordance with the Company’s Health & Safety policies to create a safe environment for staff and customers.
• To collate, investigate and communicate any incident information in line with internal procedures.
• Managing communications in line with company policy.
• Ensuring the security of company property.
• Conducting monthly fuel audits at each station to ensure correct payments of monies and security of the Company’s fuel stocks.
• To regularly review the Shop, Forecourt and Food Services at each station to ensure they are operating in line with the Company’s policies and procedures, and to their maximum potential and flag any issues with appropriate management as required.
• Ensuring each station is applying the correct fuel retail prices as instructed from time to time so as to maximise fuel profit margins.
• To select, submit for finance approval, train and, where necessary, serve notice to, Contract Managers.
• Monitoring training compliance across the estate, to include all stakeholders.
• Liaising with the nominated shop supplier to ensure effective, and correctly merchandised, promotional activity within the shop and forecourt to maximise sales and increase customer base.
• Liaising with the Area Manager for the nominated shop supplier to monitor and review the product range at each station with a view to increasing turnover and profitability.
• To build relationships with the company’s nominated direct supply partners and ensure that products are merchandised and promoted effectively with each station, and availability is maintained in order to maximise sales.
• Maintaining compliance with planograms and range as agreed with the company’s nominated suppliers to protect company income.
• Liaising with representatives of the company’s fuel supply partners in order to maintain brand standards and effectively promote the relevant loyalty schemes operated by each fuel supplier.
• Ensuring the proper management of promotions and correct merchandising of displays, to include Third party agreed fuel promotions.
• To monitor and review Company expenditure for each relevant station and area, to ensure the accurate recording of information and to identify areas of improvement.
• Ensuring that each Contract Manager operates within the terms of the Contract Manager Agreement and appropriate associated agreements.
• Handling complaints from customers and ensure satisfactory follow up with the customer and any necessary re‑training requirements are completed.
• Liaising with outside contractors to establish and manage all maintenance issues as well as monitoring all equipment downtime.
• Maintaining company income and expenditure to agreed budget targets.
• To support and carry out duties as instructed from time to time from the relevant line manager(s).

DIMENSIONS

Each ARM is responsible for the overall profitability of between 16 and 22 company owned stations with total sums per annum in relevant magnitudes as follows:

Operating costs: between £2.2m and £4.2m

Shop income: between £250k and £700k

Fuel income: between £4.5m and £10.0m

WORK CONTEXT

Petrol stations operating in a highly competitive ‘price driven’ market dominated by the supermarkets and major oil companies.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED

• A proven track record in the forecourt and/or retail sector, ideally experience of a contract management/franchise business model.
• High self‑motivation and discipline with ability to work demanding hours and prioritise duties.
• Good people skills with the ability to build effective relationships, inspire, motivate and lead.
• A good level of numeracy and attention to detail.
• Willingness to learn and take on additional responsibilities.
• Good team player.
• Mileage likely to exceed 40,000 miles per year.

THE BENEFITS

• Life Insurance
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Training & Development
• Employee Recognition Scheme
• Online Discounts