Store Manager
Utilising your previous retail experience and excellent managerial skills, you will manage the day to day running of our store – maximising store sales and profits while ensuring our customers receive an excellent service. In doing so, you will be helping to raise funds for Age UK and the incredible services and support they provide to older people. You will manage our brilliant team of staff and volunteers, providing effective leadership, training, and development.
Employment Terms
This is a six-month fixed-term contract. The role requires working 35 hours a week across a 7-day working week, including Saturdays and Sundays on a rota basis. You will be required to handle/lift bags of stock up to 10 kg.
Qualifications
* Experience in a performance driven retail/customer centric environment
* Experience of managing people
* Ability to lift and carry bags of stock up to 10 kg
* Ability to build, retain and develop a team
* Strong drive to achieve results through others
* Ability to delegate, coach and listen
* Ability to manage time under conflicting priorities
* Ability to motivate self and others
* An open and adaptable approach to change and be able to support others through it
* Experience of communicating with a diverse workforce and customer base
* Ability to establish and maintain successful retail processes and merchandising
* IT literacy and numeracy skills
Benefits
* Competitive salary, 25 days annual leave (pro rata for our part-time colleagues) + bank holidays + annual leave purchase scheme
* Wellbeing days – 2 paid days per year (pro rata for our part-time colleagues)
* Excellent pension scheme, life assurance, Bupa health cashback plan and EAP
* Car Benefit scheme, Cycle to Work scheme
* Home & Tech - apply to buy any Home & Tech items from Currys & IKEA, up to £1,000, and spread the cost over 12 months, interest free
* Blue Light Card scheme
* You Did It Awards – recognition awards ranging from £100-250
Eligibility
Applicants must be 18 years or older.
Equal opportunities & Disability confident
Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria under the Disability Confident Scheme. Please note that on occasion, due to high numbers of applications, Age UK reserves the right to limit the overall number of interviews offered, and therefore, it may not always be practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job.
Reasonable adjustments
Disabled job seekers can access reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. All requests for reasonable adjustments are considered on a case-by-case basis, in collaboration with the disabled job seeker to best meet their needs.
Safeguarding
Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.
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