Training Manager

At The Athlete's Foot, our team members are highly passionate about inspiring, motivating and empowering our customers to better their best. We believe that people ultimately want to lead a healthy and fit way of life and we want to empower them to do so by providing correctly fitted footwear and personalised service. From their first pair of shoes to their last, our team are there to ensure that whatever activity they want to do, they're wearing the right shoes. Our service extends beyond our four walls to support our local communities by engaging with health professionals, schools, and local sporting clubs. Joining The Athlete's Foot is more than just a job, it is a family who cares, develops, grows, and rewards each and every one of us.

At The Athlete's Foot we know that people want to lead a healthy and active lifestyle, therefore we ensure that our fitting expertise is the best. We want our customers to leave knowing that we have provided the right in-depth knowledge to help them lead the ultimate athletic life. Therefore, we provide our team with the best possible training, to ensure that these standards are met.

**About the Role**:
We are currently looking for the next Training Manager based in NSW.
To be successful in this role you will have strong leadership, an understanding of branding and culture and understand the importance of your role is to train and develop to improve and drive business results.
Management of the ongoing development and delivery of the TAF retail training program through a blended learning program encompasses in-store and online training, seminars and conferences covering Fit Technician through to Master Fit accreditation's and Supplier Training.
Goal is to support and drive all levels of the TAF business forward through education and hands on training. They will consult, influence and engage stakeholders to support the transfer of learning to the workplace.

**What's in it for you**:

- Be a part of exciting training initiatives across a national network of stores
- Ongoing support, development and mentoring to maximize your growth
- Work with a market leading retailer in the footwear
- Amazing bonus structure and discount across all brands.

**What you will bring**:

- Ability to Liaise and build rapport with a wide variety of stakeholders at all levels
- Demonstrates discretion when dealing with confidential information
- Excellent problem solving and decision-making skills
- Good level of negotiation and influencing skills
- High level of verbal and written communication skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Hands on and able to handle large volumes of work to tight deadlines
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Excellent multi-tasking skills
- Self-motivated and shows a sense of urgency
- The ability to travel interstate.

**To be successful you will have**:

- Proven experience as a Retail Training Manager, Cluster/Area Manager or similar
- Experience in developing training content
- Experience in the management, coordination and facilitation of training workshops and initiatives
- People Management Experience
- An experienced facilitator
- Proficient in MS Office

At Accent Group Limited we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and inclusion. We believe in the diversity of our people across age, gender, identity, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, physical and mental ability. We strive on creating an equal employment environment where everyone from any background can be themselves.The Accent Group acknowledges, and pays respect, to the Traditional Owners and ongoing custodians of the land. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Maori people.