Fixed Term Deputy Community Shop Manager

Acorns; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 14,465,000 - 18,047,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discounts

Discounts on refurbished tech

Health cash plan

Gym membership and equipment discount

Time off to volunteer

Bike2Work scheme

Wellbeing support

Pension options

Job summary

Acorns Children's Hospice is seeking a Deputy Community Shop Manager for the Perton area on a 22.5-hour week, fixed term for 3 months. You will support the Shop Manager, lead volunteers, and drive stock quality, pricing and merchandising decisions to meet sales targets.

The role involves working weekends, covering shops in the area, and helping embed the shop within the local community while delivering excellent customer service.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing a shop or retail environment.
• Ability to lead volunteers and hit targets.
• Willingness to travel to multiple shops in the area.

Responsibilities

• Support the Shop Manager to lead the shop team and maintain standards.
• Decide on stock quality, pricing, and merchandising style.
• Lead and motivate volunteers to achieve sales and gift aid targets.
• Contribute to achieving agreed sales targets and store performance.
• Ensure safe operations with manual handling when required.

Skills

Retail experience

Team leadership

Target achievement

Volunteer management

Merchandising

Manual handling

Mobility to cover shops

Job description

Fixed Term Deputy Community Shop Manager

Acorns Children's Hospice 735 subscribers

We are now looking for a Deputy Shop Manager to support the Perton 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. For a 3 month fixed term contract.

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 Perton
• Employee discounts from leading retailers – including the Blue Light Card
• Discounts on refurbished tech
• 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 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.