Shop Manager (Mere Green)

Retail Store Manager Salary: £26,789 - £31,385

Reports to: Area Manager

Department: Trading

Contract: Fixed‑term contract ending 1st February 2027

Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week

Location: Mere Green

Closing date: 26th July 2026 23:55. This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications are received or once a suitable candidate is found.

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.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer. We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. We need to go much further and much faster, and we’re looking for a motivating store manager to join our trading team. You’ll act as an ambassador for Cancer Research UK, motivating your team to maximise on sales and fundraising targets. Your shop will be a place where the community meets our people, understands our brand, and sees some of the great things we do. In a lively, vibrant working environment, you’ll discover something new every day, whether it’s a new high‑street trend, a new community network, or a talent you never knew you had. You’ll also be surrounded by people who are as dedicated to beating cancer as you are.

What will I be doing?

• Guiding, inspiring and engaging a team of paid staff and volunteers, including recruitment, retention and development of a diverse shop team.
• Taking ownership and responsibility for the commercial running of your store, including display and merchandising, stock management, 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.
• Creating relationships with your local community and Cancer Research UK colleagues.
• 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.

What skills are you looking for?

• Experience of managing and inspiring a diverse team of people.
• Comfort working within targets and motivating others to achieve those targets.
• The ability to multi‑task in a lively environment.
• Working knowledge of what makes great customer service.
• Commercial awareness.
• Knowledge of high‑street fashion retail.
• Adaptability in changing situations, including the ability to work effectively independently.
• An awareness of the price, value and worth of items.
• And ideally experience of retail management.

What will I gain?

In return we support you with a generous 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 everything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more. Our work – from funding cutting‑edge research to developing public policy – will change the world. It’s exciting to be part of our team.

We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, especially those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under‑represented. We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the application process, interview process and while at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen.

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. (Any offer of employment for this role will be subject to a satisfactory basic DBS check.)