Shop Manager

Shop Cover Manager
£30,331.58 a year includes allowance and car allowance
Permanent - 35 hours per week
South East UK
The role
Permanent, 35 hours
The role includes a £1,750 allowance and £5,000 car allowance
Location - Supporting Scope shops based in the southeast. It is therefore essential that you can travel within this geographical area.
We are looking to appoint a Shop Cover Manager (known internally as Divisional Support Lead) supporting Scope shops in the southeast. These include Bognor Regis, Brighton, Dover, Haslemere, Hove BR, Seaford, Sittingbourne, Tolworth, West Croydon and Wimbledon.
This is an exciting role working closely with the fantastic shop teams to enable our shops to trade when there is absence. The role will play a key role in maintaining and improving the running of our shops day to day and enable us to maximise sales and profit.
Our retail roles are full of variety, and every day is different! From generating and processing stock to designing an eye-catching window display or recruiting and training our wonderful volunteer team you’ll find every day challenging but extremely rewarding. You will have relevant experience in retail but a great attitude and willingness to learn is just as important.
About you
As Divisional Support Lead you’ll be passionate about retail and have a love of fashion with experience of running a shop, or you’ll be looking for a management role as the next step in your career and be comfortable working closely various shop teams.
To be successful in this role

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  You’ll need a commercial, can-do attitude and always put the customer’s needs first.
  
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  You’ll be a dedicated team player and be able to work with different retail shop teams and volunteers
  
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  Possess a strong work ethic
  
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  Have a great attention to detail and have a creative eye for displays.
  
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  Be proficient in the use of Microsoft Office
  

Please make sure you explain in your application, with examples, how you can meet these important skills.
We ask you to show an appreciation of Scope’s values and our ambition of creating equal futures with disabled people.
Our values - pioneering, courageous, connected, open, fair
By living our values and trusting each other, we empower our colleagues to make decisions. By giving our colleagues freedom and space to spark creativity for innovation, we can push boundaries, change mindsets and be empowered to change the game with grit and determination and a sense of urgency.
Scope benefits
We believe hard work deserves reward and recognition. We offer a wide range of benefits including:

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  35 days annual leave
  
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  flexible working (where we can)
  
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  company pension
  
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  excellent training and career development
  
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  strong colleague networks across disability, LGBTQ+, race equality, carers, women and young colleagues
  
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  Wellbeing incentives like a discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, and much more.
  

Please note that successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
How to apply
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We welcome all applications by 11:59pm GMT on Wednesday 2 July 2025