Permanent, part time
Dumfries Store
21 per hour
Marie Curie is the UK's leading end-of-life charity. We are the largest non-NHS provider of end-of-life care in the UK, the only provider across all 4 nations, delivering community nursing and hospice care across the country. Our retail stores play a vital part in helping us achieve our mission by bringing in significant revenue generation, building awareness and engaging local communities.
Join our team and be part of a dynamic retail environment where your can-do attitude makes a real difference. If you thrive in a collaborative workplace and enjoy helping people, we'd love to hear from you.
As a Retail Assistant, you will join an incredible team and support them to encourage sales, provide excellent customer service, and uphold the highest standards of stock presentation and store cleanliness.
Assisting the Retail Manager in maximising sales by maintaining high standards of display and layout, ensuring proper stock rotation, and securing realistic pricing on donated items.
Customer engagement and leading by coaching volunteers and staff to have great conversations with every customer on" Rounding up" their purchase, making an "add donation" for our charity and signing up for our loyalty scheme.
Engaging with the community to drive repeat custom, stock donation, volunteer recruitment and community involvement.
In the absence of the Retail Manager, taking responsibility for the overall management and operation of the store.
Previous retail experience, preferably in fashion/clothing.
Experience of cash handling and financial management procedures (including completion of sales records).
Understanding of health and safety procedures in a retail environment.
In this role you will have sole responsibility for the running of the store, which will involve lone working. Due to this, we are unable to recruit anyone for this role who is under the age of 18.
25 days annual leave (exclusive of Bank Holidays)
Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme (we will match your contribution up to 7.Loan schemes for bikes; computers and season tickets
Continuous professional development opportunities
Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programmes
Industry-leading training programmes
We believe that diversity makes us stronger. Apply today to bring your talents to our diverse and inclusive charity.