Furniture Shop Manager

The role:

You’ll maximise profit for [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] through your effective management of our Furniture Plus shop – leading and motivating a diverse team of volunteers to deliver an excellent customer experience. You’ll recruit, train and support volunteers and continually seek ideas and implement changes to increase takings and improve quality, whilst ensuring the shop is safe and well-maintained. You and the existing four day manager will work on a rota basis to ensure the smooth running of the shop.

What you need:

• Alongside some retail experience, you will need to have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and be enthusiastic about the opportunity to work alongside a large and diverse team of volunteers.
• You will need to be able to work under pressure and manage demands from others in a calm, diplomatic and professional manner.
• You will have a strong teamwork ethic, and be able to use your initiative to solve problems that arise.
• You will be comfortable in working to targets and excited about the opportunity to meet them and contribute to year on year income growth.
• Finally, you will need to be passionate about our cause and demonstrate a strong commitment to the hospice’s values of compassion, respect, professionalism, excellence, inclusivity and collaboration.

Why [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]?

You will be working within a friendly and committed team, based predominantly within our charity shops. You’ll be supported to develop and implement your own ideas to make a positive impact on income and the customer experience. We offer our employees an attractive benefits packages, including generous annual leave (starting at 35 days a year including bank holidays, pro rata for part time), a contributory stakeholder pension scheme, life assurance, membership of a healthcare cash plan and excellent training opportunities.

Closing Date for Applications:

Sunday, 26th June 2022

Interviews:

To be scheduled for 6th/7th July 2022

Contact & Application:

For an informal discussion about the role and working for [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], please email a request to [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] and a member of the team will be in touch. To apply please download the job description and an application form and email applications to [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal].

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] welcomes applications from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, marital status or sexual orientation. Any offer of employment for this post will be subject to a satisfactory DBS check.