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Job title: Deputy Shop Manager, Leamington

Location: 10 Clemens Street, Leamington Spa, CV31 2DL

Contract duration: 6 months

Hours per week: 13 hours per week. 2 days a week on rota basis, Monday - Sunday.

Salary: £7,733.44 per annum (£22,010.56 FTE)

About the role:

Age UK Coventry & Warwickshire is recruiting! We have a fantastic opportunity for a Deputy Shop Manager to join our friendly and supportive Leamington Spa team. Our amazing Deputy Shop Managers assist in overseeing all aspects of the business, helping to guide and support our valued team of volunteers while ensuring customers are provided with an exemplary shopping experience. If you have a passion for retail and would like to use your skills within a charity that supports older people across the Coventry & Warwickshire area, then this may be the role for you!

You will have

  • The ability to work collaboratively and consultatively with the shop team
  • Ability to lift and carry bags of stock up to 15kg.
  • Excellent customer services skills
  • An open and adaptable approach to change and be able to support others through it · The ability to manage time under conflicting priorities
  • Able to work periods by yourself in the shop
  • IT literacy and numeracy skills

Ideally you will also have

  • The ability to understand and establish successful retail processes
  • Experience in a customer facing role

Age UK is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria. We welcome requests for flexible working.

Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.

Age UK politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Staff benefits include:

  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Blue Light Discount Card
  • Age UK Discount Portal
  • Tickets for Good
  • 27 days plus Bank Holidays annual leave entitlement (pro rata)

Additional Information

We cannot accept applications from candidates under the age of 18 as the successful candidate will be required to work on their own in the shop without the aid of other staff..

Closing date: 8th December 2024

Interviews scheduled for: TBC

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