Store Manager (Chelmsley Wood)

Acorns Children’s Hospice Trust are excited to be opening a brand new charity superstore in Chelmsley Wood.  We're looking for a Superstore Manager to lead on the opening of the new store from finding your team and stock to merchandising before the grand opening.  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 funds that we need to provide this care.

As Community Superstore Manager of our soon-to-open store, you’ll:

• join us on the journey to opening, recruiting your team of volunteers, sourcing stock and organising the store
• 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
• 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
• manage collections and deliveries of furniture and large items

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About You

• 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 coordinate a schedule of deliveries and collections

What We Offer

• £28,375 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 will be subject to a DBS check and 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.

If you have any questions, please contact us at recruitment@acorns.org.uk

Find out about our culture, career development, benefits and more here: Why Work for Acorns?

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