Store Manager (Fixed-term)

We are excited to be looking for a Temporary Shop Manager for our Bury Home Décor store on a full-time, fixed-term 6 months basis. We are looking for a passionate and motivated person to help our store reach its full potential. We want someone who is excited about charity retail and fashion, who can use their initiative.

As 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 sign up donors to the Gift Aid scheme to 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.

To be a successful Shop Manager, you will be:

• An experienced manager with the ability to maintain budgets and complete weekly income and banking sheets accurately, preferably with previous charity retail experience at Shop Manager level.
• Flexible in your 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.

If you are looking for an exciting new challenge and want to work for an organisation that strives for excellence, we want to hear from you!

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and welcome applicants with disabilities to apply for all roles with us. 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.

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: We work in partnership with people with a learning disability, and all our services support people to live life as they choose. Everyone wants a purposeful job - to do something meaningful. At Mencap, we can give you that. You will have opportunities to develop as a person, colleague, leader, and activist. We want to make you feel inspired to reach your potential.