Area Manager – Leinster Builders’ Merchants / Hardware Retail
Our client, a leading Irish hardware and builders’ merchants retail group is seeking to recruit an experienced Area Manager / Regional Manager to join the Retail Sales and Operations team. This is an exciting opportunity for a commercially driven Building Merchant retail professional to oversee the performance and development of multiple branches across the Leinster Region.
Reporting to the Head of Sales and Operations, the successful candidate will play a key role in driving regional growth, operational excellence, and strong member relationships. This position requires a strategic and hands-on leader with strong commercial acumen and experience within the builders’ merchants, hardware, or construction-related retail sector.
Key Responsibilities for the job of Area Manager / Regional Manager
- Develop and implement regional sales strategies to achieve revenue and profitability targets
- Support and guide members to maximise commercial performance and operational standards
- Identify market opportunities and adapt strategies to remain competitive
- Build strong relationships with members, suppliers, and key stakeholders
- Act as the main point of contact between the group and its members
- Work collaboratively with internal departments to support business growth
- Identify and attract potential new members within the region
- Support initiatives to expand market share and strengthen the brand presence
Key Requirements for the job of Area Manager / Regional Manager
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a senior sales or leadership role, within builders’ merchants, hardware, or construction-related retail essential
- Strong commercial awareness and understanding of the builders’ merchants sector
- Proven ability to develop and deliver strategic sales plans
- Strong leadership, influencing, and relationship-building skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data and make commercially sound decisions
- Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Office
- Full driving licence and willingness to travel across the region
Package
- Competitive salary with performance-based incentives
- Pension contribution and income protection
- Fully expensed vehicle or car allowance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to join a progressive and growing organisation with strong career development potential
If you are interested in learning more about this opportunity, please apply with your updated CV, or contact Aislinn for a confidential discussion.
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Department Manager – Cosmetics / Fashion
Our client a leading High Profile Luxury Designer Retail Department Store is seeking a commercially driven and people-focused Department Manager to lead a high-profile Cosmetics or Fashion division within a prestigious luxury retail environment in Dundrum.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced retail leader to take ownership of a dynamic and fast-paced department, representing some of the world’s most iconic beauty brands. You will be responsible for delivering exceptional customer experiences, driving sales performance, and leading a large, diverse team to achieve ambitious commercial targets.
As Department Manager, you will play a key role in shaping the culture on the shop floor, building strong relationships with brand partners, and ensuring the highest standards across service, merchandising, and operations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, inspire, and develop a large team, fostering a high-performance and customer-focused culture
- Drive sales performance through clear communication of targets, KPIs, and commercial strategy
- Deliver an exceptional customer journey, ensuring best-in-class service at all times
- Build strong relationships with brand partners, counter managers, and internal stakeholders
- Conduct regular floor walks to maintain premium visual merchandising and operational standards
- Oversee all promotional activity, in-store events, and product launches
- Manage day-to-day operations including stock control, transfers, markdowns, and compliance
- Monitor departmental performance through data analysis, reporting, and commercial insight
- Recruit, coach, and develop talent, ensuring continuous growth and succession within the team
- Ensure full compliance with company policies, procedures, and loss prevention standards
Requirements:
- Proven experience in retail management, ideally within a premium or luxury environment
- Strong leadership capability with experience managing large, diverse teams
- Commercially focused with a track record of delivering against KPIs and sales targets
- Experience with P&L, reporting, and performance analysis is advantageous
- Strong organisational and decision-making skills in a fast-paced environment
- Passion for cosmetics, beauty, and delivering an elevated customer experience
Package:
- Salary:€40k – €50k
- Bonus structure
- Pension scheme
- Excellent staff discount
If you are interested in this Department Manager opportunity in Dundrum, please apply with your updated CV.
For a confidential discussion or to explore similar roles, please contact Aislinn 01 8717604.
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Business Manager – Beauty
Our client, a fast-growing beauty brand, is seeking a dynamic and commercially minded Business Manager to lead their retail location in Dundrum. This is an exciting opportunity to join a disruptive player in the beauty industry, one that blends innovation and a strong online community. Known for its customer empowerment and education-led selling, the brand has cultivated a loyal global following and a vibrant, energetic culture.
As Business Manager, you will take full ownership of store performance, leading from the front to deliver exceptional customer experiences while driving sales and team engagement. You’ll act as both a commercial leader and brand ambassador, ensuring the team consistently brings the brand’s ethos to life.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, coach, and inspire a high-performing retail team
- Drive sales, KPIs, and overall store profitability
- Deliver an exceptional, personalised customer journey
- Recruit, train, and develop team members
- Maintain strong operational standards and visual excellence
- Use data and insights to identify opportunities for growth
- Build local relationships and drive in-store events/community engagement
About You:
- Proven experience in retail management (beauty/cosmetics advantageous)
- Highly confident in delivering hands-on makeup applications, creating personalised looks that enhance each customer’s features while elevating their in-store experience
- Strong commercial acumen with a track record of delivering results
- Passionate about people leadership and team development
- Energetic, hands-on, and highly adaptable
Why Apply?
- Salary 38-42K depending on experience
- Commission/bonus scheme
- Be part of a vibrant culture that values creativity and individuality
- Ongoing training and development within a fast-scaling business
If you’re a motivated retail leader who thrives in a fast-paced, customer-centric environment, we’d love to hear from you. Please apply with your updated CV and Jade will look after your application.
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Assistant Manager
Our client, a well-established and award-winning Irish retailer, is seeking a passionate and customer-focused Assistant Manager to join their busy store in Co. Clare.
Renowned for celebrating Irish creativity, craftsmanship, and design, this retailer offers a carefully curated range of fashion, jewellery, homeware, and gifts. With a strong emphasis on heritage and quality, they pride themselves on delivering an exceptional in-store experience that reflects the very best of Irish design.
Key responsibilities:
- Support the Store Manager in driving overall sales performance and delivering exceptional customer service
- Lead, coach, and inspire a team to achieve sales targets and KPIs
- Champion a culture of excellence in customer experience, product knowledge, and brand storytelling
- Maintain high operational standards across all departments
- Ensure outstanding visual merchandising that reflects the brand’s positioning
- Identify opportunities to promote products, collections, and in-store experiences
Skills & experience required:
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in a retail supervisory or management role (fashion, homeware, jewellery, or similar)
- Proven track record of delivering a premium, customer-first experience
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate and develop a team
- Commercial mindset with experience achieving sales targets
Salary:
If you are interested in learning more about this Assistant Manager position, please apply via the link provided with your most up-to-date CV and Jade will be in touch regarding your application.
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Purchasing Manager
My client, an Irish owned family food distribution company is seeking an experienced Purchasing Manager to join their team in South Dublin. This is an excellent opportunity to join a long-established business with a strong reputation for delivering innovative products and services to the food industry.
Package
- Generous salary and benefits doe
Responsibilities of this Purchasing Manager job include:
- Lead and manage a team of buyers and administrators, driving performance and development.
- Work closely with senior leadership to deliver on sales growth and margin targets.
- Build and maintain strong supplier relationships.
- Negotiate pricing, contracts and long-term agreements to ensure competitive positioning.
- Create and implement pricing strategies in line with market conditions and margin requirements.
- Manage pricing updates and resolve pricing queries from suppliers and customers.
- Oversee system and database maintenance ensuring accurate and up-to-date information.
- Review margin reports to identify pricing errors and margin erosion.
- Support new product development from concept through to launch.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with sales, QA and operations teams.
- Support planning and execution of seasonal and promotional activity.
Requirements of this Purchasing Manager job include:
- Proven experience in a Buying or Commercial Management role.
- Strong people management experience with the ability to lead and develop teams.
- Excellent commercial acumen with a focus on margin and pricing.
- Experience within the food or FMCG sector is essential.
- Strong analytical skills with advanced Excel capability.
- Experience working with ERP systems.
- Excellent organisational, communication and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Aoife Clarke is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.
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Buying Manager
My client, an Irish owned family food distribution company is seeking an experienced Buying Manager to join their team in South Dublin. This is an excellent opportunity to join a long-established business with a strong reputation for delivering innovative products and services to the food industry.
Package
- Generous salary and benefits doe
Responsibilities of this Buying Manager job include:
- Lead and manage a team of buyers and administrators, driving performance and development.
- Work closely with senior leadership to deliver on sales growth and margin targets.
- Build and maintain strong supplier relationships.
- Negotiate pricing, contracts and long-term agreements to ensure competitive positioning.
- Create and implement pricing strategies in line with market conditions and margin requirements.
- Manage pricing updates and resolve pricing queries from suppliers and customers.
- Oversee system and database maintenance ensuring accurate and up-to-date information.
- Review margin reports to identify pricing errors and margin erosion.
- Support new product development from concept through to launch.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with sales, QA and operations teams.
- Support planning and execution of seasonal and promotional activity.
Requirements of this Buying Manager job include:
- Proven experience in a Buying or Commercial Management role.
- Strong people management experience with the ability to lead and develop teams.
- Excellent commercial acumen with a focus on margin and pricing.
- Experience within the food or FMCG sector is essential.
- Strong analytical skills with advanced Excel capability.
- Experience working with ERP systems.
- Excellent organisational, communication and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Aoife Clarke is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.
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Sales Consultant – Interiors
Excel Recruitment are currently recruiting on behalf of a leading premium interiors retailer in Dublin, specialising in high-quality furniture and bespoke home solutions. This is an exciting opportunity for a driven and customer-focused Sales Consultant to join a well-established brand known for exceptional customer experience and product excellence. This position is located in Dublin 12.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver a high-end, consultative sales experience to customers in-store
- Build strong relationships with clients, understanding their style, needs, and budget
- Provide expert guidance on furniture and interior solutions
- Maintain showroom standards to reflect a premium brand environment
- Work towards and exceed individual and team sales targets
- Keep up to date with product knowledge and interior design trends
Requirements:
- Proven experience in furniture or interior sales is essential
- Strong track record in a target-driven retail environment
- Passion for interiors, design, and customer service
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
What’s on offer:
- Competitive base salary, depending on experience with commission structure
- Pension scheme
- Ongoing training and development
If you have a passion for interiors and a talent for sales, this is an excellent opportunity to join a premium retail environment where your expertise and ambition will be rewarded. Please apply with your updated CV and Jade will look after your application.
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Buyer
My client, Ireland’s leading food retail and wholesale business is seeking a commercial and passionate Buyer to join their highly reputable business. In this role, you’ll collaborate with suppliers, marketing, category planning, finance, sales, and operations to create and implement business development plans. You’ll oversee everything from product range and pricing to promotions and supply chain. Northern Ireland based.
Package
- Generous salary doe
- Bonus
- Pension
- Agile Working
- Life Assurance
- Pension
- Staff Discount
Responsibilities of this Buyer include:
- Lead the overall design, development, and execution of your category’s planning and scheduling
- Develop and implement comprehensive business development plans.
- Assess the commercial performance of the current range and identify market trends and opportunities.
- Conduct competitive analysis, reviewing competitor offerings and price positioning and evaluating current pricing and margin performance to ensure profitability.
- Develop and implement targeted promotional strategies to drive revenue and profitability.
- Ensure inbound service levels meet targets and that the business effectively leverages group buying power.
- Gather customer feedback and insights to inform future strategies.
Experience required for this Buyer includes:
- Strong commercial acumen and interpersonal skills including strong influencing /negotiation skills.
- Minimum of 2 years experience working within a buying/trading team with responsibility for managing categories or product portfolios
- Experience in data analysis and interpretation
- Team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills
Aoife Clarke is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.
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Pharmacy Buyer
We are currently seeking a commercially driven Pharmacy Buyer to join a well established pharmacy group in Munster This is a key role responsible for sourcing, selecting and managing a broad range of pharmacy products, while driving sales, margin and overall category performance across multiple stores. This is an excellent opportunity for a Buyer with strong retail or healthcare experience to take ownership of category strategy, supplier relationships and stock optimisation in a fast-paced environment. Limerick based.
Benefits:
- Generous salary doe
- Bonus
- Pension
- Generous AL
- Opportunity to take ownership of key categories
- Career progression within a growing business
Responsibilities of this Pharmacy Buyer job include:
- Develop and implement buying strategies across OTC, wellness, skincare and healthcare categories
- Manage product ranges to ensure strong commercial performance and customer relevance
- Analyse sales data, trends and margins to optimise product mix and pricing
- Identify new products, suppliers and commercial opportunities
- Monitor sales performance and take action on underperforming lines
- Drive margin through effective pricing and supplier negotiations
- Build and maintain strong supplier relationships
- Oversee stock levels to ensure availability while minimising waste and shrinkage
- Monitor key KPIs including margin, stock accuracy and waste
Requirements of this Pharmacy Buyer job include:
- 2-3+ years’ experience in buying, procurement or category management
- Experience within pharmacy, retail or FMCG environment is highly desirable
- Strong commercial awareness with a focus on margin and sales
- Proven ability to negotiate with suppliers
- Strong analytical skills with good Excel capability
Aoife Clarke is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.
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Buying Administrator
My client, an Irish owned family food distribution company is seeking a diligent Buying Administrator to join their team in South Dublin. This is an amazing opportunity to join a long-established company with a reputation for distributing innovate products and services.
Package
- Salary €35-40k
- Bonus
- Pension
- Agile working
- Career progression opportunities
- 23 days annual leave
- Free car parking
Responsibilities of this Buying Administrator job include:
- Pricing and product maintenance.
- Open and maintain product codes.
- Create pricing in line with margin parameters and with input from the sales team.
- Solve pricing queries from suppliers and customers.
- System and database maintenance.
- Help to identify alternative suppliers and help build partnerships to innovate the company processes and products.
- Supports negotiations with existing and potential new suppliers to achieve pricing consistent with market requirements, whilst also maintaining a high level of service and security of supply.
- Review margin reports to pick up pricing errors and margin erosion.
Requirements of this Buying Administrator job include:
- Knowledge of the food / raw material distribution sector or relevant experience in technical administration / customer / supplier service in a professional distribution environment would be desirable.
- Proven commercial acumen.
- Strong negotiation, organisational and planning skills.
- Ability to focus and prioritise tasks.
- Experience dealing with third-party relationships eg: suppliers.
- Proficiency with MS Office application – advanced Excel required
Aoife Clarke is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.
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