Chris Dyson

Kmart Tyre and Auto Service are Australia’s largest employer of Mechanical Apprentices and specialists in tyres, car repairs, servicing, brake repairs and suspension with over 250 stores across Australia and close to 1500 employees. Within the role of Divisional Manager I worked closely with 6 direct reports and in partnership with the Senior Executive functions to help develop and deploy strategies across Multi sites. I focused on driving continuous growth in sales and profit across a portfolio of 64 stores, spanning 6 regions and 3 states.

As the Operations Manager in QLD Region (Bayside / CBD), I lead a Team of 14 stores with close to 100 team members. My scope within this role was to coach, develop and grow high performing teams whilst ensuring operational and financial performance was in line with business strategy.

As the Regional Manager in South Australia/Tasmania Region 2, I lead a Team of 15 stores with over 100 team members. Within this role I successfully led the turnaround of the 4 Tasmanian Stores, from negative Sales & EBIT to positive growth after 12mths. I was also very proud to have coached & developed a Store Manager from my Region to step up to Regional Manager when I moved to QLD to take on the Operations Manager role.

Coles is an Australian supermarket chain with over 100,000 employees operating in over 807 supermarkets across the Australian Market. During my 18 years with Coles I held various positions throughout multiple Stores & States, starting from a customer facing team member to progressing my career into Management roles including Department Manager, Store Manager and State Grocery & Dairy Coordinator. In my role as Big Box Store Manager I was responsible for overall site financial performance with a focus on large volume customers and turnover, in excess of 24K weekly transactions and delivering sales in excess of $1M per week including walk in and online. Coaching and developing large teams up to 250, including casual part time and full time employees.