Assistant Manager (Barnsley)

Cancer Research UK; Barnsley; Vor Ort; GBP 18.000 - 21.000; Teilzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Substantial retirement plan

Generous leave allowance

Discounts on travel and technology

Gym membership

Confidential wellbeing support

Zusammenfassung

Cancer Research UK in Barnsley is seeking a part-time Retail Assistant Manager to support the shop manager and lead a small team. You will help with merchandising, store standards, and delivering great customer and donor experiences.

The role is 15 hours per week, with a flexible pattern including weekends. You will be key to achieving fundraising targets and maintaining compliance with shop policies while contributing to CRUK’s mission to beat cancer.

Qualifikationen

• Experience delivering excellent customer service in a lively retail setting.
• Ability to work flexibly across a part-time rota.
• Proactive in stock management and shop presentation.

Aufgaben

• Support the shop manager to guide and inspire a diverse team of staff and volunteers.
• Assist with store merchandising, stock management and maintaining shop standards.
• Lead by example to deliver outstanding customer and supporter service.
• Help achieve targets for donated stock, cash, gift aid and stock processing.
• Engage with the local community and Cancer Research UK colleagues.
• Assist in organising fundraising events to meet targets.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety, safeguarding, security, HR policies.

Kenntnisse

Customer service

Team work

Merchandising

Jobbeschreibung

Endless pre-loved items. A talented team. One clear purpose.

Job Details

• Retail Assistant Manager £13.25 - £15.46 per hour plus benefits
• Reports to: Shop manager
• Department: Trading
• Contract: Permanent
• Working hours: Part time 15 hours per week (Flexible role to cover 1 day SM day off and 2 half days to include 4 hours on Saturday/Sunday)
• Location: Barnsley
• Shop Closing date: 1st November 2026 23:55
• Interview date: w/c 9th November

**The internal title for this role is Assistant Shop Manager. Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship. At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer. We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That’s why we’re looking for someone talented, someone who shares our vision, someone like you. We’re looking for a motivated assistant shop manager to join Cancer Research UK’s trading team. You’ll be acting as an ambassador for Cancer Research UK, supporting the shop manager and your team to maximise income through people, resources and stock. You’ll also be surrounded by people who are as dedicated to beating cancer as you are.

What will I be doing?

• Supporting the shop manager to guide, inspire and engage a diverse team of paid staff and volunteers.
• Support the commercial running of the store including display and merchandising, stock management, maintaining shop standards, store layout, sales and income.
• Leading by example and providing excellent customer and supporter service.
• Work alongside the shop manager to achieve targets for donated stock, cash, gift aid, average selling price, sell through and stock processing.
• Creating relationships with your local community and Cancer Research UK colleagues.
• Supporting the shop manager in the organisation and delivery of creative fundraising events for your store to achieve fundraising targets.
• Maintaining compliance with health and safety, safeguarding, security, administration and HR policies.
• Deputising for the shop manager in their absence.
• There will be a varied amount of manual handling and physical activity required within the day‑to‑day duties of the role.

What are you looking for?

• A working knowledge of what makes great customer service.
• Experience of working in a lively and vibrant environment.
• Adaptability in changing situations, including being able to work effectively independently.
• Commercial awareness.
• The ability to create relationships and communicate well.
• Flexibility, our retail teams cover the needs of their stores by working on a rota basis. Whilst a level of flexibility is needed to meet the needs of the business, we don’t forget that you have a life outside of work too.

What will I gain?

• We make sure you are supported by a generous salary and benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.
• Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more.
• Our retail teams also have access to confidential wellbeing support from the Retail Trust.

For the full job description and more information about working with us please contact [e-mail]

We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under‑represented.

We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work.

We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen.

Please contact [e-mail] or 020 3469 8400 as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.

We’re the world’s leading cancer charity, dedicated to saving and improving lives with our research.

We work to reduce the impact of cancer on people’s day‑to‑day lives through our research, influence and information.

We are beating cancer – step by step, day by day.

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