Assistant Store Manager in Loughborough

Are you someone who is excited about charity retail and fashion, who can use their initiative? Do you have experience managing a retail team? Yes, then please keep reading as we may have the role for you. We are excited to be looking for an Assistant Shop Manager to work in our Loughborough Shop for 37.5 hours per week. We are looking for a passionate and motivated person to help our store reach its full potential.

As an Assistant Shop Manager you will:

• Help develop in-store systems and promote donations and sales to maximise profits.
• Represent Mencap as an efficient and charitable organisation by ensuring that your actions reinforce the Mencap aims and values.
• Strive to ensure stock is generated from the local area and donors.
• Sign up donors to the Gift Aid scheme and ensure maximum income is achieved through Gift Aid.
• Be responsible for achieving profit targets by ensuring sales are maximised and costs are effectively managed.
• Maintain the store to a high standard of presentation throughout.
• Build an effective volunteer team and provide training, development, work reviews and appraisals to paid staff and volunteers.
• Be responsible for all financial and cash handling and health and safety.

An experienced assistant manager or supervisor with the ability to maintain budgets and complete weekly income and banking sheets accurately, preferably with previous charity retail experience. Have a flexible approach to working hours and days including working weekends and Bank Holidays as appropriate. Willing to travel to occasional team meetings, training events and in the initial growth of the new retail train assisting with setting up other new stores. Passionate about the Mencap values and will strive to ensure our Retail brand is successful.

We are an equitable, diverse and inclusive organisation and we particularly welcome and encourage disabled applicants and those from the Black and Asian communities to apply for the role as they are under-represented within the workforce. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and welcome applicants with disabilities to apply for all roles with us.

Benefits: Here at Mencap, we offer an impressive range of benefits designed to support and reward our employees to ensure that our teams feel valued and appreciated. Our benefits package offers 32 days of paid holiday (including bank holidays, pro rata), along with a range of perks such as discounts at leading high-street retailers, access to health cash plans, interest‑free loans, and many more exciting offerings.

About Mencap: Our vision is for the UK to be the best place in the world for people with a learning disability to live happy and healthy lives. We're here to support people with a learning disability, their families and their carers. We fight for a kinder, fairer and more inclusive society for people with a learning disability to live in. At Mencap, everyone works with people with a learning disability either providing support or advice, or alongside one another as colleagues. Belonging at Mencap is for everyone, every day, everywhere.

Everyone is expected to treat people well and make Mencap an inclusive organisation. Every day we grow and learn. It’s okay to make mistakes but we learn from them and make changes. Everywhere people will feel respected, valued, and safe to be themselves. We have Belonging network groups that meet online and are open to all colleagues. The groups include people who identify as Black and Asian, LGBTQIA+, disabled or with a long‑term health condition, women, parents and carers, and their allies.

We want to encourage everyone to apply to work at Mencap and we offer a variety of different contract types and working patterns. We’re not looking for specific experience. It is your personality and values that will make you a great colleague. We will train and develop you to succeed in the role you’re applying for.