Retail Assistant Superstore Manager

Acorns Children’s Hospice are now looking for a Deputy Community Superstore Manager to support our Bescot Superstore Manager in leading a team of volunteers, achieving set targets and maintaining standards. You’ll work 37.5 hours per week, including some weekend working. This role is offered on a temporary 6-month contract.

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 Deputy Community Superstore Manager, you will:

• Support the Superstore Manager to create an exciting shop floor experience that makes Acorns stand out from our competitors
• Make decisions about the quality of stock, levels of pricing and style of merchandising
• Manage processes for the effective collection, delivery and processing of goods associated with the superstore
• Provide inspired leadership and motivation for a team of volunteers, maximising the potential of every individual by understanding their skills and experiences and utilising them to reach their full potential
• Achieve sales targets by encouraging donations, purchases and gift aid, taking an entrepreneurial approach to generating income
• Represent Acorns in the community

• Retail experience and experience of working towards targets
• Ability to lead and motivate a team
• Enjoy a role that involves significant levels of manual handling

• 37.5 hours per week
• Based in Bescot Superstore, WS1 4SB
• Employee discounts from leading retailers – including the Blue Light Card
• Discounts on refurbished tech
• Health cash plan
• Gym membership and equipment discount scheme
• Time off to volunteer
• Bike2
  
  Work scheme – save up to 42% on bikes and equipment
• Wellbeing, legal and financial support
• Generous contribution to group personal pension plan (7.5%) or continuation of current NHS pension scheme
• NHS pension scheme life assurance or 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.

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.