Assistant Shop Manager – Harrogate – NEW STORE!

Job Description

We’re recruiting an Assistant Shop Manager for our brand-new shop in Harrogate – come join us and create a wonderful place to visit and shop in the heart of the community!

Your new role will be incredibly rewarding and worthwhile and will make truly make a difference!

More about the role

Blue Cross is one of the UK’s leading animal welfare organisations. We have over 50 charity shops throughout England and Wales.

Our generous supporters donate a mixture of clothes, books, toys, household goods and soft furnishings that we sell in our shops and online. All the money raised goes towards enabling Blue Cross to support sick, injured, and homeless pets and care for more than 40,000 animals every year through our rehoming, veterinary and education programmes.

You will be working closely with the Shop Manager in the day-to-day management of the shop; generating donations; display and merchandising; managing stock deliveries and collections; record keeping and cash handling.

An important part of your role will be recruiting, training, motivating, managing, and supporting a loyal and committed team of volunteers.

You will enjoy the freedom of working with the Shop Manager to set the direction of your shop at a local level. So being bored is not an option!

Your normal working pattern may change each week, subject to the needs of the business and the levels of staff and volunteers available to work and will involve a significant element of weekend working.

Due to the nature of the role this may involve some lone working and you may be required to work additional hours to cover for the Shop Manager and therefore flexibility is essential.

Want to know more the detail? Great! We have attached the job description which hopefully gives you everything you need.

If you excel in an environment where you can see the difference you make every day, then this is the role for you. Interested? Then apply and let’s work together to see if this is the role for you.

About you

You will have:

• Previous experience of working in a retail environment
• Cash handling and reconciliation experience
• Experience of leading a team
• Experience of providing great customer experience
• Computer and administration skills

It would also be great if you had:

• Managing volunteers
• Experience of fundraising

Why Blue Cross?

Our people are the most important part of delivering our purpose. If it were not for their amazing efforts and commitment, we would not be able to make a difference that we do today.

In return, Blue Cross wants to ensure we provide you with the best working environment we can.

We want you to be happy working for us and will do everything we can to make sure you are.

Our generous benefits package includes:

• Enhanced annual leave entitlement: 30 days plus bank holidays
• Pension scheme with enhanced employer contribution
• Life assurance
• Unlimited access to an employee assistance programme
• Programmes for physical and mental wellbeing support
• Free access to GP via MetLife
• Recognition scheme
• Annual volunteer days
• Claim for professional fees
• Charity worker discounts across a variety of retailers.

To read more about the benefits Blue Cross has to offer, please visit the ‘why work for us‘ page on our website.

Additional Information

How to apply:

Charity Retail Jobs is sponsored by Precycle Group