Regional Director

Placed by Leon is partnering with a prestigious brand within the luxury watch & Jewellery industry on an exciting opportunity to appoint a Regional Director, responsible for multiple high-value locations across Outer London.

We’re looking for a credible, commercially driven senior retail leader with real gravitas, someone with significant experience managing senior managers across a multi-site environment and who is confident taking full accountability for P&L, commercial performance, people and operational standards.

This is a substantial leadership position requiring someone who can balance strategic thinking with exceptional execution. You’ll have the autonomy to lead your region as a business: analysing performance, identifying opportunities for growth, challenging your leaders and ensuring robust plans are in place to deliver against sales, profit and wider business objectives.

Just as importantly, this is a people-centric leadership role. We’re looking for someone who creates a culture of autonomy and accountability, develops high-performing leaders, identifies and nurtures talent and builds strong succession plans. You’ll lead through your senior managers while remaining a visible and influential leader across the region.

You’ll take responsibility for a portfolio of high-turnover, high-profit retail businesses, with accountability for:

• Regional P&L and commercial performance, including sales, profitability, budgets, costs and driving efficiencies
• Analysing sales figures and forecasting future performance, identifying opportunities to maximise profit and grow or protect market share
• Leading, motivating, coaching and challenging senior retail leaders to increase sales, improve efficiency and deliver against KPIs and targets
• Developing clear regional business plans and translating wider strategy into operational activity that teams can successfully implement
• Benchmarking against competitors, understanding local market trends and challenging leaders to continually evolve their business plans
• Driving business development through clienteling, events, PR and high-value client networks
• Building strong relationships across Support Office and the wider business to unlock commercial opportunities for individual locations and the wider region
• Managing and developing relationships with key strategic brand partners
• Leading regional and wider retail projects, ensuring clear vision, robust planning, stakeholder engagement, budget control and delivery against agreed KPIs
• Driving consistently high operational standards across multiple locations and holding leaders accountable for their execution
• Developing talent, coaching future leaders and creating robust succession plans
• Ensuring teams consistently deliver an exceptional luxury client experience
• Ensuring targets, product allocation, incentives and commission structures are understood and used effectively to drive performance

The successful candidate will need to be highly numerate and genuinely commercially astute, with the ability to interrogate performance, understand what is driving the numbers and turn insight into action.

You’ll already be an accomplished senior retail leader with significant experience operating across a multi-site environment and delivering results through other leaders.

You’ll be able to demonstrate:

• Strong P&L, budget and cost management experience
• A proven track record of delivering sustainable commercial results across multiple locations
• Experience managing and developing senior retail managers
• Strong strategic thinking alongside the ability to turn strategy into action
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving capability
• A track record of identifying commercial opportunities and developing business
• Experience building…