Community Shop Manager (Perton)

Acorns Children's Hospice Trust are now looking for a Community Shop Manager for our Perton 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.

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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.

Retail experience and experience of working towards targets
Experience of leading and motivating a team
IT skills
Happy to work weekends
Enjoy a role that involves significant levels of manual handling
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.

£25,350 per annum
37.5 hours per week
Employee discounts from leading retailers
Employee gym discount scheme
Bike-to-Work scheme
Generous contribution to group personal pension plan
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 be asked to provide two satisfactory references.