Cat Welfare Shop Manager: Lead a high-impact retail team

Cats; Paignton; Hybrid; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

26 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Salary Finance

Eye care vouchers

Confidential advice services

Job summary

Cats Protection, the UK's largest cat welfare charity, invites applications for a Shop Manager role based in Paignton. The position involves leading a shop team of employees and volunteers, driving income and managing budgets within a busy charity retail environment.

The role requires experience in retail, line management, and a strong customer-focused approach, with a rota that includes weekends. A DBS check is required for this role.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable learning and experience from working in a relevant retail environment.
• Previous experience of line managing a team and building a culture to achieve a collective goal.
• Experience and/or understanding of working to sales targets and budgets.
• Excellent organisational skills including the ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong commercial awareness, balanced with an appreciation for the unique needs of the Charity.

Responsibilities

• To lead, manage, coach and develop a shop team of employees and volunteers to be the best they can be, maximising shop performance through the safe day-to-day operational management of shop activity.
• To take ownership for the delivery of shop income, expenditure and operating profit budgets and other key measures of performance and activity as defined in the Retail Performance framework
• To support the work of Cats Protection, acting as brand ambassador, being a role model for the values and behaviours of the Charity, taking responsibility for shop operations and related people management.

Skills

Retail experience

People management

Sales targets

Organisational skills

Commercial awareness

Job description

Cats Protection, the UK's largest cat welfare charity, invites applications for a Shop Manager role based in Paignton. The position involves leading a shop team of employees and volunteers, driving income and managing budgets within a busy charity retail environment.

The role requires experience in retail, line management, and a strong customer-focused approach, with a rota that includes weekends. A DBS check is required for this role.