Distribution Store Manager

Join our team as a Shop Distribution Manager at our Derby Normanton Drive store! We're offering a full-time, 37.5 hours per week, permanent position, and we can't wait to meet someone passionate about making an impact.

If you're driven, motivated, and eager to help our store reach its full potential, this is the perfect role for you. We're looking for someone with a love for charity retail, a keen eye for fashion, and the ability to take initiative and lead with enthusiasm.

 As Shop Distribution Manager you will: 

• Help develop in store systems and promote donations and sales to maximise profits
•  Be representing 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 the cost 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
• Have a flexible approach to working hours and days including working weekend 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.
• Manage the logistics, vans and allocation of stock, to stores within the area. To maximise income for Mencap.

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!

At Mencap, we value a diverse and inclusive workplace and we intentionally plan for the success of our colleagues in everything we do. We welcome applications from everyone, so come as you are and join us. Together we are Mencap! 

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and welcome applicants with disabilities to apply for all roles with us. To find out more about the scheme please visit the direct gov website.  

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.

For more details on what we have to offer, please see the attached document outlining all the fantastic benefits available to you as a member of our team!

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.