Deputy Community Shop Manager

Acorns-Children; Moreton-in-Marsh; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 18,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discounts from leading brands

Blue Light Card discounts

Discounts on refurbished tech

Job summary

Acorns Children’s Hospice in Moreton on the Marsh is looking for a Deputy Community Shop Manager to support the Shop Manager, lead volunteers, and help the shop achieve its targets while maintaining high standards.

You will supervise the shop floor experience, decide on stock quality and pricing, and work across weekends. You may need to travel to cover local shops.

This part-time role offers employee discounts and the chance to contribute to local families supported by Acorns.

Qualifications

• Retail experience and experience of working towards targets
• Ability to lead and motivate a team
• Enjoy a role that involves significant levels of manual handling
• Ability to travel independently to cover shops in the area if needed

Responsibilities

• Support the Shop Manager to create an exciting shop floor experience that makes Acorns stand out from our competitors
• Make decisions about the quality of stock, levels of pricing and style of merchandising
• Lead a team of volunteers
• Achieve sales targets by encouraging donations, purchases and gift aid

Job description

Acorns Children's Hospice 737 subscribers

We are now looking for a Deputy Community Shop Manager to support the Moreton on Marsh Shop Manager in leading a team of volunteers, achieving set targets and maintaining standards. You’ll work 22.5 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 Deputy Community Shop Manager, you will:

• Support the Shop Manager to create an exciting shop floor experience that makes Acorns stand out from our competitors
• Make decisions about the quality of stock, levels of pricing and style of merchandising
• Lead a team of volunteers
• Achieve sales targets by encouraging donations, purchases and gift aid
• Retail experience and experience of working towards targets
• Ability to lead and motivate a team
• 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

• 22.5 hours per week
• Based in Moreton on Marsh
• Employee discounts from leading retailers – including the Blue Light Card
• Discounts on refurbished tech