Job Description

Regional Operations Manager

Location: Regional role, covering the following South West

Hours: 40 Hours per week Monday to Friday

Salary: Up to £50,000 plus car allowance

Who & What is Storal?  

It’s our collective group of Nurseries across England. Storal stands for high quality outcomes for children and are passionate about Early Years. Bringing your whole self is a must if that’s pink hair, being Neurospicy or having a unique pastime, we encourage it all.  Your unique self is what makes our Nursery even better. Check out our website to learn about our leaders and the expertise they bring to our Storal community. 

Purpose and vision

To ensure the highest standards of care and education, driving operational excellence, supporting staff development, and maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements. By doing this, commercial results will follow and our customers (parents & children) will notice.

Meaningful relationships

As a Regional Operations Manager, you will act as a key link between the nurseries and senior management, ensuring that each thrives while aligning with the ethos, behaviors, and objectives of Storal.

Important tasks

Support nursery managers to achieve business results including quality and commercial performance.

Oversee the day-to-day operations of your nurseries in your assigned area, ensuring the management teams meet and/or exceed company expectations.

Ensure all nurseries comply with relevant legislation, including Ofsted/EYFS requirements, health and safety, and safeguarding standards.

Lead, coach, and mentor Nursery Managers to help them achieve their goals and support the development of their teams.

Objectives and impact

1. Ensuring nurseries maintain strict compliance with, and drive standards above regulatory requirements.

2. Improving financial performance year over year, maintaining and improving margin, and identifying opportunities for growth and expansion.

3. Monitor occupancy levels, staffing requirements and parent engagement so you can implement strategies to maximise enrolment across settings.

4. Contribute to the development and implementation of company-wide initiatives and policies.

Essential requirements

Level 3 or above full and relevant qualification in early years

Experience working as a regional nursery manager, across multiple sites

Excellent knowledge of EYFS, Ofsted standards, and safeguarding practices

Experience in budget management and commercial oversight

Strong ability to inspire and motivate others

Must Haves

Ability to role model Storal Behaviors

A clear understanding of Soral Ethos

A passion for little people

Why work for us: 

Family Friendly Benefits- enhanced parents leave including maternity, paternity & adoption & Childcare Discount at 50% off all fees

Wellbeing & Refuel Benefits- extra day off per year for your wellbeing and access to modern-day, progressive mental health support & sick pay 

Financial Perks- emergency cash access to your pay before pay date, free financial coaching 

Social Perks – online community for peer-to-peer socializing eg. book club, pets club, pinecones club & continuous professional development accessible to you at anytime 

 Plus, many more.  

We care about our people.  

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Storal is the highest of standards when it coming to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment the encourages feedback-discussion-resilience. We take our role in the safety of children, our families and our team extremely seriously. As governed by the EYFS, we have a designated safeguarding lead in each setting and all staff (and volunteers) complete a through compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS.