Store Manager

ForSight; Belfast; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charity retailer in Belfast is seeking a Store Manager to drive sales and build relationships in the local community. Ideal candidates should have supervisory experience in retail, excellent leadership skills, and a passion for community service. This role offers a competitive salary, performance bonuses, and opportunities for career progression within a large nationwide network.

Benefits

Performance bonus

Career progression opportunities

Educational sponsorship

Qualifications

• Must have retail supervisory experience.
• Strong customer focus and drive for sales.
• Ability to build and motivate a team.

Responsibilities

• Meet and exceed retail store sales targets.
• Ensure visual merchandising standards are attractive.
• Recruit and develop staff and volunteers.

Skills

Retail supervisory experience

Customer focused

Team building

Motivational skills

Integrity and trust

Time management

Fluency in English

Education

Relevant third level qualification

Job description

Overview

Location: ForSight Retail Store, Belfast

Vacancy Type: Full Time, Permanent

Working hours: 37.5 hours per week

Closing date: 7th November 2025

Would you like to work with one of Ireland’s leading Charity Retailers that makes a real difference in your local community? Our extensive Retail Operation of 130+ nationwide stores provide support and critical funds to meet the essential services of the 55,000 sight loss client users across the island of Ireland.

Responsibilities

As Store Manager you will be responsible for a strong team tasked with driving both turnover and revenues in our Forsight Belfast Store. You will be tasked with supervising financial KPIs, including sales, wages and shrinkage, together with customer service/feedback, internal audits, standards and compliance.

The ideal applicant will love to work with a diverse team, have a passion for retail, coaching and developing those around you. The success of the store is based on becoming a part of the local community and its ability to build excellent relationships with the instore team, it’s local surrounding area and network of stores.

If you have experience in a retail supervisory role, can clearly demonstrate a motivational leadership style, deliver excellent store standard, and exceed store targets than this may be the perfect career path for you.

Principal Duties

• Meet and exceed ongoing retail store sales targets.
• Ensure that all visual merchandising standards are attractive and in line with weekly changes in accordance with celebratory and promotional events.
• Recruitment and development of all staff, volunteers, and social activation scheme employees to enhance a positive collegial atmosphere with particular attention to customer service.
• Ensure adequate staffing cover at all times to meet the needs of the business and daily / weekly trading periods.
• Ensure that all goods offered for sale are of excellent quality and that the store is kept clean and professional in appearance at all times.
• Undertake responsibility for all donated goods and ensure proper presentation when displayed on the shop floor, to include pricing, ticketing, cleaning, ironing, and stock rotation.
• Manage the shop accounting procedures including banking, till receipts, transactions and cash handling procedures are adhered to at all times.
• Full responsibility for inventory and security of all equipment and fittings on the shop floor and extended premises.
• Take an active lead and support for all ongoing store and communitybased fundraising events.
• Promotion of the Vision Ireland brand through a variety of local channels in a costeffective manner whilst ensuring communications are in keeping with brand standards.
• Responsibility for all health and safety in accordance with statutory obligations to include training, adherence to fire procedures and maintenance of all safety and first aid equipment.

Benefits

• Full time, permanent contracts with ample opportunities for career progression across a large nationwide network of retail stores.
• Competitive salary and annual leave.
• Store management performance bonus.
• Educational sponsorship assistance and support.
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Companywide learning and development opportunities.

This job description is not exhaustive and may be reviewed in line with the business needs and any other reasonable requests at the discretion of Vision Ireland management.

Selection Criteria

Mandatory:

• Retail supervisory experience.
• Customer focused with a drive for meeting sales targets.
• Team building and motivational skills.
• Creativity and innovation.
• Integrity and trust.
• Time management and organisational skills.
• Flexible approach to working hours to meet the needs of the business.
• Fluency in English.

Desirable:

• Relevant third level qualification.
• Prior fashion based retail experience.

Vision Ireland is an equal opportunities employer.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Vision Ireland is committed to creating an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated, and everyone is afforded equality of opportunity. It is our policy to recognise people as a key resource required for successful attainment of the organisation’s mission. In support of this, it is important to remember that differences between people, whether devised from their different backgrounds and personalities, cultures and/or their different abilities, can be a source of strength to the organisation.

Vision Ireland is also committed to providing reasonable accommodation for a person with a disability, whether they are an applicant for employment or an employee requiring special facilities.

Additional information

Please note: This role has been re-opened to welcome further applications. Those who applied during the previous round have already been considered and do not need to submit a new application.

Vision Ireland trading as ForSight Ltd reserve the right to close this competition earlier than the stated closing date should sufficient applications be received.

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Skills:

• Fashion retail experience
• Supervisory Skills
• Cash Management
• team leader
• Stock Management
• Customer Service
• target driven