Pets at Home

Area Manager

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Job Description

Area Manager - Manchester Region

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: Friday 17th April
Location: Multi-site across Manchester/Lancashire

Are you a multi-site retail leader with a drive to achieve more, a curious mindset and a passion for inspiring people and pets alike?

About the Role

At Pets at Home, we're on the lookout for an Area Manager who leads with purpose, brings energy & humility to their teams and knows how to balance results with fun. You’ll be the driving force behind exceptional customer experiences, operational excellence and strong commercial performance across your region.

This is a ‘field based’ role, covering our 26 Pet Care Centres in Greater Manchester/Lancs, from Accrington to Wigan (and a few in between).

What You'll Bring:

  • Proven experience managing multiple retail locations
  • A hunger to improve, grow and succeed – always
  • A naturally curious approach – asking questions, finding solutions
  • Strong commercial acumen and people leadership skills
  • A genuine sense of fun, connection and humility

What You’ll Do:

  • Lead your Pet Care Centres to deliver customer “magic” every day
  • Champion colleague engagement, pet welfare and community involvement
  • Identify growth opportunities, drive KPIs and own area P&L
  • Inspire teams to be bold, accountable and brilliant

What’s In It For You?

We offer a rewarding package that goes beyond the basics, including:

  • Company car and annual bonus scheme
  • 36 days holiday (including Bank Holidays), rising to 38 – plus an extra day off for your birthday
  • Private healthcare, life assurance (x4) and a generous pension (6.5% company contribution)
  • 20% colleague discount across all Pets at Home Group brands

Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you.

If you're ready to lead with heart and hustle, and want to be part of a business that puts pets and people first, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now and help shape the future of pet care retail.

Pets at Home

About Pets at Home

Since 1991, when we were a wholesaler with a team of just 15, we’ve been focused on getting better every day. By putting pets before profit, working as a team and taking pride in everything we do, we’ve grown into a 451 store network with more than 8,913 colleagues working in our Stores, Grooming Salons, Distribution Centres and Support Office.

We are the UK’s leading pet specialist, providing pet owners with all their product needs, as well as our Vets for Pets practices and Grooming salons. We support our colleagues to work with pride and passion, to bring honesty and integrity to work every day, and to do it all with a sense of fun and fearlessness. We never shy away from having the important conversations and doing what we say we’ll do.

Our values and behaviours are practiced daily across the business and are what really makes us an enjoyable, exciting place to work. We're always striving to develop and reward our colleagues with an extensive in-house series of training programmes, wellbeing initiatives and a comprehensive benefits package. In 2018 we were delighted to be voted top 5 in the Great Place to Work UK’s Large category.

Our colleagues are central to the success of the business and are fully trained in pet care and dedicated to animal welfare. Pets are central to everything that we do and 93% of colleagues have their own pets too!

If you like the sound of life at Pets at Home, you can find out more on our dedicated careers site: https://www.petsathomejobs.com/

Industry
Retail & Ecommerce
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Handforth, GB
Year Founded
1991
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