Retail Manager (Corby Superstore)

Overview

Apply for the Retail Manager (Corby Superstore) role at Cancer Research UK (CRUK).

Salary: £30,144-£35,354 plus benefits. Contract: Permanent. Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week. Location: Corby Superstore. Closing date: 26th October 2025.

Responsibilities

• Guiding, inspiring and engaging a team of paid staff and volunteers, including recruitment, retention and development of a diverse superstore team.
• Taking ownership and responsibility for the commercial running of your superstore, including display and merchandising, stock management and generation, maintaining shop standards, store layout, sales and income.
• Leading by example and providing excellent customer and supporter service.
• Maximising profit through effective cost control and sales.
• Working to agreed targets for donated stock, cash, benchmark gift aid, average selling price, sell through and stock processing.
• Creating relationships with your local community and Cancer Research UK colleagues to generate community engagement and additional income and stock.
• Overseeing the movement and distribution of large volumes of donations including across other Cancer Research UK shops, superstores and eCommerce.
• Organising and running creative fundraising events for your store to achieve fundraising targets.
• Maintaining compliance with health and safety, safeguarding, security, administration and HR policies.
• There will be a varied amount of manual handling and physical activity required within the day‑to‑day duties of the role.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Adaptability in changing situations, including being able to work effectively independently.
• Creativity and a desire to seek out opportunities for new and innovative ways of working.
• 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.

Benefits

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.

How to apply

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; they will not be viewed until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly and objectively.

To support your training and development in this role, you will spend 4 weeks in a training shop, learning from a Training Shop Manager, possibly at a different location to the role you applied for.

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

For more information on this career opportunity please visit our website or contact us at recruitment@cancer.org.uk. For more updates on our work and careers, follow us on Linked In, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

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. Please inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen. Please contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk or 020 3469 8400 as soon as possible.

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.