Regional Business Support

**Regional Business Support - S09**
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Please note this is a regional vacancy and flexibility to travel across the region is essential. This role is for Region S09 which covers Hampshire and surrounding areas, the role also includes home working.

As a Regional Business Support you will manage all aspects of regional administration in a proactive manner using your network and judgement to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence on the region. You'll be expected to work in a proactive manner, with trust and confidentiality. You'll adapt to problems and new situations quickly, creating solutions which are simple, future proof and consider both internal and external thinking.

**What you need to do**
- Support and plan the effective and timely delivery of projects or trials, as prescribed by the regional manager to support business implementation.
- Identify key issues, risks and actions to support achieve regional objectives, reporting progress effectively and concisely to the regional manager to help with prioritising
- Develop and manage good working relationships with all relevant stakeholders within all areas of the group to support the delivery of business change.
- Review and analyse store and regional performance against KPI measures, identifying areas of opportunity for you or the regional manager and organising coaching where required.
- Take responsibility for organising, coordinating and facilitating elements of team meetings aimed at the development of the regional team, including the organisation and facilitation of internal and external meetings.
- Investigate & manage any issues or queries raised to (or by) the regional manager and support with preparing communications in a timely manner, liaising with senior stakeholders across the business.
- Pro-actively and accurately maintain key talent documentation and spend for the region, taking ownership of relevant communications and meeting preparation to support.
- Support with the completion of regional manager administrative activities, such as diary management, store manager payroll, scheduling, holiday booking processes and planning travel efficiently.

**What you need to know and show**
- Knowledge of Retail Operations
- Ability to work independently and pro-actively, to support the delivery of operational excellence within your region
- Be able to use digital technically to a confident level
- Good judgement skills and knowledge and understanding of change management and agile ways of working
- Have experience with and be able to demonstrate strong skills of managing and using data, insight and external detail to manage through to resolution
- The ability to demonstrate engagement and confidently communicate to different levels across the business
- To have well-developed problem-solving capabilities within retail
- Have an appreciation of meeting facilitation and coaching skills

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

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**Primary Location**: GB-Hampshire

**Other Locations**: GB-GB-Southampton

**Work Locations**: Hedge End Store Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd Tollbar WayHedge End Southampton SO30 2UH

**Job**: Regional Support Assistant

**Schedule**: Full-time

**Advertised Salary** Competitive plus benefits