Community Shop Manager

Ree Design; Southam CP; On-site; GBP 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charity organization is seeking a Community Shop Manager for their Southam location. This role involves leading a team of volunteers, managing stock and pricing, and engaging with the local community to boost sales. The ideal candidate will have strong retail experience and the ability to travel independently.

Benefits

Employee discounts from leading retailers

Employee gym discount scheme

Bike-to-Work scheme

Generous contribution to pension plan

Life assurance scheme

Qualifications

• Experience leading and motivating a team.
• Retail experience with target achievement.
• IT skills for effective shop management.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of volunteers to maintain shop standards.
• Make local decisions about stock and pricing.
• Maximise sales opportunities through data analysis.

Skills

Retail experience

Team leadership

IT skills

Manual handling

Community engagement

Job description

Community Shop Manager

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Acorns Children’s Hospice Trust are now looking for a Community Shop Manager for our Southam 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

• £26,325 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 candidatebe asked to provide two satisfactory references.

As a UNICEF GoldRights 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.

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