Acorns Children's Hospice Trust are now looking for a Community Shop Manager for our Moseley Shop to lead a team of volunteers, achieve set targets and to maintain standards. You'll work 37.5 hours per week, including some weekend working.
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 Community Shop Manager, you'll create an exciting shop floor experience that makes Acorns stand out from our competitors. You'll make local decisions about the quality of stock, levels of pricing and style of merchandising, leading a team of volunteers to uphold these standards. You'll act as an entrepreneur to maximise every sales opportunity available, reviewing sales reports and making decisions based on the data and trends these reports show. 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.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Retail experience and experience of working towards targets
2. Experience of leading and motivating a team
3. IT skills
4. Happy to work weekends
5. Enjoy a role that involves significant levels of manual handling
6. 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.
Salary and Benefits:
1. £25,350 per annum
2. 37.5 hours per week
3. Employee discounts from leading retailers
4. Employee gym discount scheme
5. Bike-to-Work scheme
6. Generous contribution to group personal pension plan
7. 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.
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