Area Manager Location: Maidstone South East Travel / Full Time / Starting December We are a well-established community pharmacy group seeking an Area Manager. To Drive performance. Lead people. Deliver excellence. Are you a results-driven leader who thrives on inspiring teams and making a real impact? We’re looking for an Area Manager to take ownership of a cluster of around 20 community pharmacies across our Group. Reporting to the Head of Pharmacy and working closely with senior leaders in Services, Professional Standards, Retail and HR, you’ll play a key role in shaping performance, driving growth, and ensuring every branch delivers outstanding patient care. You’ll be passionate about developing and motivating people, with a keen eye for opportunity and a strong commercial focus. From delivering KPIs and managing budgets to ensuring safety and compliance, you’ll balance people leadership with operational excellence. This is a fast-paced, hands-on role where no two days are the same. If you’re ready to build high-performing teams, influence business direction, and make a visible difference to both patients and colleagues, we’d love to hear from you. What you will be doing: Operational Responsibilities: To regularly visit each pharmacy, ideally monthly, to drive business performance and lead best practice in operational standards Use available data and tools to diagnose, analyse and formulate plans to drive profitable growth of RX, Services and OTC whilst delivering against budgets Provide clarity and purpose to Pharmacy Managers enabling them to deliver business goals Communicate in an effective and consistent way, ensuring everyone in the branches has clarity, focus and accountability Build highly capable, engaged, and diverse teams through performance-led culture Deliver excellent standards through ensuring compliance with regulatory, professional and NHS expectations Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of Community Pharmacy and factors influencing the market Embed an ethos of excellent customer service throughout the Region Ensure appropriate staffing levels and skill mix are maintained within each pharmacy Optimise processes within the pharmacy to maximise efficiency Support the digital transformation process already well underway in our pharmacies High Performance Teams Effectively coaching Pharmacy Mangers and their teams, flexing leadership style as required Build highly capable, engaged, and diverse teams through leading performance-led culture Actively ensure engagement with all learning and development opportunities across the Region Contribute to the effective working of the wider Operations team by sharing best practise and supporting colleagues Utilise appropriate communication and engagement tools to ensure that all pharmacies are up to date on area performance and priorities