Job Advert
Are you someone who is excited about charity retail, fashion, who can use their initiative? Do you have experience managing a retail team? Yes, then please keep reading as we may have the role for you.
Join our friendly team in Wyke and help us make a difference in the community. We’re looking for a passionate and motivated individual to support the day-to-day running of our shop and help it reach its full potential.
This is a permanent position, working full time (37.5 hours per week) over 5 days.
As Shop Manager you will:
1. Help develop in store systems and promote donations and sales to maximise profits
2. Be representing Mencap as an efficient and charitable organisation by ensuring that your actions reinforce the Mencap aims and values
3. Strive to ensure stock is generated from the local area and donors
4. Sign up donors to the Gift Aid scheme and ensure maximum income is achieved through Gift Aid
5. Be responsible for achieving profit targets by ensuring sales are maximised and the cost are effectively managed
6. Maintain the store to a high standard of presentation throughout.
7. Build an effective volunteer team and provide training, development, work reviews and appraisals to paid staff and volunteers
8. Be responsible for all financial and cash handling and health and safety.
To be a successful Shop Manager, you will be:
9. An experienced assistant manager or Supervisor with the ability to maintain budgets and complete weekly income and banking sheets accurately, preferably with previous charity retail experience.
10. Have a flexible approach to working hours and days including working weekend and Bank Holidays as appropriate.
11. Willing to travel to occasional team meetings, training events and in the initial growth of the new retail train assisting with setting up other new stores.
12. Passionate about the Mencap values and will strive to ensure our Retail brand is successful.
We are an equitable, diverse and inclusive organisation and we particularly welcome and encourage disabled applicants and those from the Black and Asian communities to apply for the role as they are under-represented within the workforce.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and welcome applicants with disabilities to apply for all roles with us. To find out more about the scheme please visit the direct gov website.
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Benefits
Here at Mencap, we offer an impressive range of benefits designed to support and reward our employees to ensure that our teams feel valued and appreciated.
Our benefits package offers 32 days of paid holiday (including bank holidays, pro rata), along with a range of perks such as discounts at leading high-street retailers, access to health cash plans, interest-free loans, and many more exciting offerings.
For more details on what we have to offer, please see the attached document outlining all the fantastic benefits available to you as a member of our team!