Retail Assistant Manager Rotherham Superstore

Retail assistant manager (superstore) £26,243- £30,638 per annum plus benefits

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week

Location: Rotherham Superstore

Closing date: Monday 24th August :55

In line with organisational policy this role will remain open for internal applications until: Sunday 30th August :55

What will I be doing?

• Supporting the superstore manager in guiding, inspiring and engaging a large team of paid staff and volunteers. This includes recruitment, retention and development of a diverse superstore team.
• Taking responsibility for the commercial running of the superstore including display and merchandising, stock management and generation, maintaining shop standards, store layout, sales and income.
• Working alongside the superstore manager to meet agreed targets for donated stock, cash, benchmark gift aid, average selling price, sell through and stock processing.
• Assisting with the processing systems that allow for the movement and distribution of large volumes of donations including across other Cancer Research UK shops, superstores and eCommerce.
• Leading by example and providing excellent customer and supporter service.
• Creating relationships with your local community and Cancer Research UK colleagues to generate community engagement and additional income and stock.
• Supporting the shop manager in the organisation and delivery of creative fundraising events for your store to achieve fundraising targets.
• Deputising for the superstore manager in their absence.

What are you looking for?

• Commercial awareness with previous success working with sales and profit targets.
• Experience of managing and inspiring a large and diverse team of people.
• Comfort working within targets and motivating others to achieve those targets.
• The ability to multi-task in a lively high volume retail environment with large volumes of stock.
• Creativity and a desire to seek out opportunities for innovative ways of working.
• The ability to create relationships and communicate well.
• Flexibility, our retail teams cover the needs of their stores by working on a rota basis. Whilst a level of flexibility is needed to meet the needs of the business, we don’t forget that you have a life outside of work too.

What will I gain?

• We make sure you are supported by a generous salary and benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.
• Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more.
• Our retail teams also have access to confidential wellbeing support from the Retail Trust.

Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

Owing to the nature of this position, any offer of employment for this role will be subject to a satisfactory basic DBS check.

Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.

We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented.

We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work.

Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do.

We are beating cancer – step by step, day by day.

Find a purposeful career that will empower you to grow and collaborate with like-minded experts.

Our work means that people with cancer live better lives through earlier diagnosis and kinder, more effective treatments.

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