Deputy Community Superstore Manager

ACORNS CHILDREN'S HOSPICE TRUST; Walsall; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discounts

Blue Light Card

Discounts on tech

Eye care discount

Health cash plan

Bike2Work

Wellbeing support

Pension plan

Job summary

Acorns Children's Hospice Trust are seeking a Deputy Superstore Manager to support the Shop Manager in leading a team of volunteers, achieving targets and maintaining standards. This 37.5 hour-a-week role is a 6‑month Fixed Term Contract, based in Bescot, near Walsall.

You will drive an engaging shop floor experience, decide on stock quality, pricing and merchandising, and lead volunteers to hit sales targets while supporting the local community and the charity's mission.

Qualifications

• Retail experience and a track record of meeting targets.
• Ability to lead and motivate a team.
• IT skills.
• Happy to work weekends.
• Comfort with significant manual handling.
• Willing to travel to cover shops in the area.

Responsibilities

• Support the Shop Manager to create an engaging shop floor experience.
• Decide on stock quality, pricing levels and merchandising style.
• Lead a team of volunteers.
• Achieve sales targets through donations, purchases and Gift Aid.

Skills

Retail experience

Target-driven

Team leadership

IT skills

Weekend availability

Manual handling

Travel to cover shops

Job description

We are now looking for a Deputy Superstore Manager to support the Bescot Shop Manager in leading a team of volunteers, achieving set targets and maintaining standards. You’ll work 37.5 hours per week, including some weekend working. This is a 6 month Fixed term Contract (FTC)

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

About You

• Retail experience and experience of working towards targets
• Ability to lead and motivate 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 (pro rata)
• 37.5 hours per week
• Based in Bescot
• Employee discounts from leading retailers – including the Blue Light Card
• Discounts on refurbished tech
• Eye Test discount
• Health cash plan
• Gym membership and equipment discount scheme
• Time off to volunteer
• Bike2Work scheme - save up to 42% on bikes and equipment
• Wellbeing, legal and financial support
• Generous contribution to group personal pension plan (7.5%) or continuation of current NHS pension scheme
• NHS pension scheme life assurance or 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 will 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?

Full Time

Walsall

Retail

Wednesday 21st of October 2026