The Fine Print:
Pay: £30,597 per annum, plus £750 quarterly bonus opportunity and company car
Location: Covering the East region, Cambridge-based preferred. Ideally based in or around Cambridge, with strong access to the M11, M25 and M1 corridors to support a geographically diverse region spanning North East London, Kent (including Bluewater, Chatham and Orpington), East Anglia (Norwich and Ipswich), and the Midlands (Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Coventry and Solihull).
Vacancy Type: Permanent, full-time
Working pattern: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:30pm. Weekend cover will be required when needed as part of the Regional Manager team rota. Weekend cover will only ever be a Saturday or a Sunday, not both, and the team rota is managed so no one is expected to work more than two weekends in a row.
Ideal start date: As soon as possible
About Us
At Retail Marketing Group, we create outstanding retail experiences that help leading brands connect with customers in meaningful, memorable ways.
This opportunity sits within our LG Media Solutions team, where you’ll play a key role in supporting sales performance, building brand presence and leading a field team across the East region.
You’ll be joining a fast paced, people focused environment where coaching, communication, commercial thinking and strong client relationships all help drive success.
We’re looking for a LG Media Solutions Regional Manager to lead, support and develop a regional field team across a large and varied territory covering the East region.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced people manager and field-based leader who enjoys improving performance, coaching teams and building strong relationships across retail environments.
You’ll be responsible for driving performance across your region, supporting your team in the field, reviewing data and insight, prioritising store visits and helping stores deliver against client objectives. You’ll also play an important role in recruitment, team development, issue resolution and making sure activity is completed to a high standard.
Experience within consumer electronics, white goods, field sales, retail leadership or regional management would be a strong advantage. Experience working with major retail partners such as Currys and John Lewis would also be highly beneficial.
This role is field based and offers variety, autonomy and the chance to make a visible impact across a key brand partnership.
In this role, you’ll:
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Lead, coach and motivate a regional field team to deliver strong and consistent performance.
- Drive sales success across your region by reviewing results, identifying opportunities and increasing brand awareness.
- Use data and insight to prioritise coaching activity, target store visits and drive measurable improvements.
- Complete field visits with your team to support, develop and manage performance.
- Hold individuals accountable through clear expectations, structured coaching and evidence-based performance plans.
- Build strong working relationships with store colleagues, management teams, retailer regional leaders, client contacts and internal stakeholders.
- Take ownership of regional challenges, coordinating actions and escalating where needed.
- Support recruitment activity to help maintain coverage and build a high performing field team.
- Keep your team focused on current activity, client requests and key priorities.
- Create a positive, structured and supportive environment where your team can perform at their best.
- Manage a large and geographically varied territory while maintaining consistent engagement and performance.
- Work flexibly across your region, including weekend cover when required as part of the Regional Manager team rota.
You’ll be successful in this role if you:
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Improve sales performance and brand awareness across your region.
- Build, retain and develop a motivated field team.
- Use insight and performance data to identify opportunities, make decisions and focus your time effectively.
- Maintain strong regional coverage and support recruitment when needed.
- Create consistency in how activity is delivered across stores.
- Build trusted relationships with clients, colleagues, store teams and retail partners.
- Support your team through clear communication, regular coaching and structured field visits.
- Evidence actions taken, progress made and outcomes achieved through performance plans and follow-up activity.
- Respond well to changing priorities and keep activity moving forward.
- Help create a team culture that is supportive, accountable and performance focused.
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
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Proven experience in people management and field-based regional leadership.
- Experience within consumer electronics, white goods, retail, field sales, area management or another target driven environment.
- Strong performance management skills, with the ability to use data and insight to identify opportunities and drive improvement.
- Confidence coaching, developing and motivating others.
- The ability to hold individuals accountable in a fair, structured and supportive way.
- Excellent relationship-building skills, with the ability to develop strong partnerships with store teams, management teams, retailer contacts and internal stakeholders.
- A proactive, organised and commercially focused approach.
- The ability to manage a large territory while maintaining consistent performance and engagement across the region.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to build relationships at different levels.
- Good organisation skills, with the ability to manage priorities and structure your workload.
- A flexible, adaptable approach when priorities change.
- A practical, logical approach to problem solving.
- Confidence using Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word and Outlook.
- Experience working with major retail partners such as Currys and John Lewis would be highly advantageous.
If you do not meet every point but have relevant retail, field sales, people management or consumer electronics experience, we’d still encourage you to apply.
This is a great opportunity to join Retail Marketing Group in a role where your leadership and commercial impact will be seen across a full region.
You’ll have the chance to lead a field team, support a well known technology brand, work closely with stores and retail partners, and help shape performance across your territory.
You’ll also benefit from a competitive package, including a company car, quarterly bonus opportunity, private healthcare and dental cover after probation, wellbeing support and a strong range of employee benefits.
If you enjoy variety, people leadership, retail pace and the opportunity to make things happen in the field, this could be a brilliant next step.
- Company car
- 25 days of annual leave, plus Bank Holidays
- Bupa private healthcare and dental cover, upon passing probation
- Life rewards and discounts platform
- Pension, topped up to match employee contribution of 5%
- Life Assurance, upon passing probation
- Income Protection, upon passing probation
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Wellbeing services, including remote GP access, mental health support and physio sessions, upon passing probation
- Volunteering scheme to support charities of your choice
- Access to a panel of trained Mental Health First Aiders
Retail Marketing Group is an equal opportunities employer. We are dedicated to ensuring every candidate has the support they need to be successful during the recruitment process. If you have any accessibility needs or require any reasonable adjustments, please get in touch so we can discuss how best to support you.
We understand that AI tools are part of the world we live and work in, and we welcome candidates using them to support their application. What matters most to us is getting to know you, including your experience, your personality, your motivation and what you could bring to the role. We are not looking for perfect, polished answers, and we are not hiring AI bots. We are hiring real people, so please make sure your application reflects you.
Ready to lead a talented field team and help drive success for LG Media Solutions across the East region?
Apply now to join Retail Marketing Group as a LG Media Solutions Regional Manager and take the next step in your field leadership career.
From an agency created nearly 20 years ago to provide consumer electronics brands with field marketing services, Retail Innovation Group combines those capabilities with the benefits of first-class technology, all powered by amazing people. Adding digital services that complement the well-honed propositions that have helped clients succeed in physical retail means the Group now address all the key customer touchpoints that really matter.
