Retail Shop Manager

Job Summary by the careerbalance.co.uk Team:

31Job Description:

Dorothy House has its own wellbeing shop that is designed to reflect the holistic care and beautiful surroundings of the hospice itself. With our themes of spa and body therapies, supporting your mental health, creating serene home scenes, inspiring nutritious, healthy eating and escaping to the garden, our Ubiety shop has a unique mix of products.

With a combination of second hand, locally found brands and carefully sourced new goods and our own unique natural Ubiety body and home fragrance range, we aim to create a loyal customer base, returning to discover new items and fresh ideas for making life more beautiful.

RETAIL SHOP MANAGER – BATH | £25,047 per annum, pro rata

• To ensure there is sufficient stock, efficiently sorted and prepared for sale.
• To ensure that all backstage areas are properly organised and operate efficiently maintaining adherence to health and safety guidelines at all times
• To ensure best use of space, high standards of display and cleanliness/tidiness in all areas.
• To ensure stock collection/deliveries are managed effectively and implement the shop price guide in order to maximise sales.
• To ensure the Gift Aid scheme operates legally and effectively with regard to approach to donors; preparation and sale of stock; recording and inputting onto PC of donor and sales information; data protection in relation to donor details.
• To train, motivate and manage paid staff and volunteers ensuring that they are competent to prepare goods for display; display and rotate goods; provide great customer service; maintain high standards of cleanliness and tidiness; implement all aspects of the Gift Aid scheme.
• To actively recruit and encourage volunteering within your shops, maintain a volunteer rota to ensure shop is trading at all published times.
• To ensure the maintenance, safety and security of all parts of the shops premises.
• To provide management cover for other shops as required.

See our full detailed Job Description on our website for more information.

HOURS OF WORK

This is a part time position. You will be contracted to work 30 hours per week working 4 days out of 7.

Due to the nature of this role, you will be required to work weekends.

ABOUT YOU

Essential requirements:

• Good standard of Maths and English
• Strong team worker with the ability to motivate a team
• Excellent prioritisation and organisational skills
• Customer focused with an energetic and enthusiastic attitude

Desirable requirements:

• Experience working in Retail or Charity Shop
• Experience within a management role
• Full UK driving licence with access to a vehicle

Are you passionate about creating memorable customer experiences? Do you love sustainable, independent shopping and artful visual merchandising? Do you love meeting new people and supporting others to realise their potential? Do you want to have a meaningful career where you support your local community?
If you think this is you, we would love to see your application!

OUR BENEFITS

Dorothy House is an incredible place to work, these are just a few of our benefits that we offer to our staff:

• Generous holiday allowance for all roles, increasing with length of service.
• Fantastic refer a friend scheme.
• Excellent industry leading training and development programmes with many career development opportunities.
• Pension with Life Assurance.
• Travel and parking – We offer 45p per mile for work travel. There is unlimited free parking in Winsley.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Employee Counselling and Mindful Employer Charter – providing our staff with information, advice and support for those experiencing stress, anxiety, depression or any other mental health conditions.
• Simply Health – Providing insurance against certain everyday healthcare costs such as dental and optical treatments.
• Bonus scheme – a yearly bonus for our retails staff

If this sounds like your ideal job, then we’d love to see your application.

Please note that our vacancies can close at any time once sufficient applications have been received. We therefore encourage early submission of your application.

Location: Bath, Somerset