Retail Territory Manager Reliever at Vivo Energy

Job Purpose:

• Responsible for managing the relationship between the company and Retailer at site level, ensuring consistent delivery of the Vivo Energy Customer Commitment

Principal Accountabilities:

Customers

• Ensure consistent delivery of Customer Commitment by managing Territory Manager Sites when the TM is away from their workstation

People

• Identify gaps to Retailer competencies and delivery of Customer Commitment; coach, support and advise Retailers with the aid of appropriate tools
• Ensuring that the Retailer trains and develops their staff, focus on People in delivering the Customer Commitment, sharing and coaching on VEK tools and processes as appropriate

Shareholder

• Support Retailer Business Plans to deliver sales and cost targets represented in annual T&R
• Review Retailer's P&L statements, and support Retailer to develop action plans to close performance gaps

HSSE

• Sustain a strong HSSE culture within geographical area
• Deliver agreed HSSE targets for geographical area
• Protect Vivo Energy's interest by ensuring that all HSSE standards and procedural compliance are adhered to and stakeholder relationships are managed pro-actively

Operational Excellence

• Plan and conduct site visits in accordance with Call Planning Cycle tool
• Ensure delivery of a competitive pricing position through fuel pricing procedures
• Implementation and ongoing support of Marketing and Network initiatives

Key Challenges:

• Identify Gaps in all aspects of site performance (including service and ‘people') for geographical area and mandate, advice or offer Retailers Vivo Energy-recommended tools, processes and support to help them to profitably deliver the Customer Commitment at the Retail site and to develop the business for the mutual benefit of both the Retailer and Vivo Energy
• Maximizing all sales development potential whilst protecting Vivo Energy's interests, through the coaching and motivating of Retailers
• Participate in attraction and selection of the right Retailers
• Through coaching, supporting and performance management of Retailers to deliver the basics and higher performance, ensure best Retailers have best sites and that poor Retailer performance is eliminated
• Manage and maintain positive Retailer relationships, supporting Retailers to achieve and maintain top class site performance (including counseling to underperforming sites)
• Deliver Sales & Operations targets for geographical area through regular reviews and appropriate action plans
• Ensure Retailers implement all areas of the Customer Commitment and ensure compliance with the Site Operations/HSSE standards, contracts and manuals
• Manage and maintain a Retailer master plan within Territory through Retailer assessment and involvement with recruitment processes
• Ensuring that Retailers' actions do not damage Vivo Energy's Reputation
• Ensuring that the Retailer trains and develops their staff, and understands the importance of people in delivering the Customer Commitment

Requirements
Job Knowledge, Skills & Experiences:

• A graduate in a business discipline or engineering
• Strong team member with excellent communications skills
• Broad competence in Retail Sales & Operations
• Demonstrable competence in implementing standard processes, achieving sales targets, building relationships with Vivo
• Energy Retailers, delivering Retail Customer Commitment
• Understand and apply Retail HSSE Standards - Skill
• Understand and Apply Retail Economics - Skill
• Understand and Apply Vivo Energy Retailing Principles & Processes - Skill
• Manage Relationships with Retailers
• Manage Site/Cluster Performance & Administration
• Manage Fuel Pricing Process
• Manage Fuel Pricing Execution
• Manage Retailer Value Proposition (RVP)