Assistant Store Manager Crown Walk

Assistant Store Manager - Derby Crown Walk

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.

We are excited to be looking for an Assistant Store Manager to work in our Derby Crown Walk shop for 37.5 hours per week, on a permanent position. Shifts are worked on a 7‑day rota (Monday–Sunday). We’re flexible with days and happy to discuss what works best for you. We are looking for a passionate and motivated person to help our store reach full potential.

• Help develop in-store systems and promote donations and sales to maximise profits.
• Represent Mencap as an efficient and charitable organisation by ensuring that your actions reinforce the Mencap aims and values.
• Strive to ensure stock is generated from the local area and donors.
• Sign up donors to the Gift Aid scheme and ensure maximum income is achieved through Gift Aid.
• Be responsible for achieving profit targets by ensuring sales are maximised and costs are effectively managed.
• Maintain the store to a high standard of presentation throughout.
• Build an effective volunteer team and provide training, development, work reviews and appraisals to paid staff and volunteers.
• Be responsible for all financial and cash handling and health and safety.

• 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.
• Flexible approach to working hours and days, including working weekend and Bank Holidays as appropriate.
• Willing to travel to occasional team meetings, training events and in the initial growth of the new retail team assisting with setting up other new stores.
• Passionate about the Mencap values and will strive to ensure our Retail brand is successful.

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.

Salary: £24,785 per annum, pro‑rata.

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.

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