Community Shop Manager

Acorns Children's Hospice; Barnt Green CP; On-site; GBP 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Acorns Children's Hospice seeks a Community Shop Manager for its Barnt Green location. The role involves leading a team of volunteers, managing stock and pricing, while contributing to a children's charity. Full-time position with competitive salary and community engagement opportunities.

Benefits

Employee discounts from leading retailers

Employee gym discount scheme

Bike-to-Work scheme

Generous contribution to group personal pension plan

Acorns group life assurance scheme

Qualifications

• Experience of leading and motivating a team.
• Retail experience and experience of working towards targets.
• Happy to work weekends.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of volunteers to maintain store standards.
• Maximise sales opportunities by reviewing sales reports.
• Act as an entrepreneur in managing the shop.

Skills

Retail experience

Team leadership

IT skills

Manual handling

Job description

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Acorns Children’s Hospice Trust are now looking for a Community Shop Manager for our Barnt Green Shop to lead a team of volunteers, achieve set targets and to maintain standards. You’ll work 37.5 hours per week, including some weekend working.

About The Role

Acorns Children's Hospice are a children's charity, offering specialist palliative nursing care and support for local children and their families. Every year, we support over 750 children and nearly 1,000 families, including those who are bereaved. We have a network of charity shops across the West Midlands and Gloucestershire, which help to provide the funding that we need to provide this care.

As Community Shop Manager, you’ll create an exciting shop floor experience that makes Acorns stand out from our competitors. You’ll make local decisions about the quality of stock, levels of pricing and style of merchandising, leading a team of volunteers to uphold these standards. You'll act as an entrepreneur to maximise every sales opportunity available, reviewing sales reports and making decisions based on the data and trends these reports show.

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About You

• Retail experience and experience of working towards targets
• Experience of leading and motivating a team
• IT skills
• Happy to work weekends
• Enjoy a role that involves significant levels of manual handling
• Ability to travel independently to cover shops in the area if needed
  
  

We want our Shop Managers to firmly embed their shop into the fabric of the local community by being proactive in assessing opportunities within the community for the shop to get involved in, so ideally you’ll be based in the local area.

What We Offer

• £26,715 per annum
• 37.5 hours per week
• Employee discounts from leading retailers
• Employee gym discount scheme
• Bike-to-Work scheme
• Generous contribution to group personal pension plan
• Acorns group life assurance scheme
  
  

You need to be eligible to work in the UK to be considered for this role. We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and therefore any successful candidate be asked to provide two satisfactory references.

As a UNICEF Gold Rights Respecting organisation we are committed to ensuring that the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child is embedded into both culture and practice within the organisation. As an employee you will be a Duty Bearer for Children’s Rights and support all children to be Rights Holders.

If you have any questions, please contact us at [e-mail]

Find out about our culture, career development, benefits and more here: Why Work for Acorns?

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Business Development

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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