Retail Store

Overview

Save the Children and 54 reasons: A place where your purpose matters. We offer our customers more than just retail therapy. Save the Children op shops offer a unique shopping experience and the chance to support the numerous projects that help to create better lives for children in Australia and overseas. Surrounded by recycled fashion, toys, books and vintage gems, you will work with our State Retail Team and lead a team of dedicated volunteers to meet financial targets of our NSW retail network and improve customer engagement.

This role is ideal for an existing Assistant Manager or Store Manager looking to take the next step in their career. If you are passionate about retail, have a commercial mindset, experience in understanding consumer needs and the fashion retail environment and want to contribute to an amazing and well-respected cause, this role is for you.

A place to make a difference:

Here you’re empowered to make a difference in children’s lives by learning, sharing and collaborating to find new ways to solve problems. In this full-time permanent position, based in Vineyard, you’ll lead retail operations and stock management for the Vineyard store and depot. This hands-on role involves driving sales, supporting volunteers, ensuring excellent customer service, maintaining store presentation and overseeing the sorting, pricing and distribution of stock. Leading a team of volunteers you will be part of our retail team and report to the NSW State Manager.

A place to feel valued:

You are a dynamic, passionate, organised and people-oriented individual with a passion for fashion. You like to be ‘hands on’ and have a high level of attention to detail. Most importantly, you have a strong commitment to Save the Children/'s vision and values and would love to see your work making a difference for children in need. Bringing your best, everyday, means having:

- Demonstrated retail experience, preferably in a fashion environment
- Strong leadership and influencing skills, with a successful track record in managing, engaging, and developing staff
- An ability to drive continuous improvement, provide accurate reporting and analyse data
- Strong written, interpersonal, and verbal communication skills
- Strong time management and organisational skills with the ability to adapt quickly

A place to belong:

It takes all types of people to do the challenging work we do. We are diverse personalities, backgrounds and talents, embracing our differences as one strong and united team. We see and celebrate the unique value you bring to our organisation, and offer a range of rewards for your effort, including:

- Opportunity to work on additional projects to enable you to stretch and feel connected to programs in a different way
- Individual learning plans to help map and deliver on your career development
- Internal employment and development opportunities
- Support for workplace wellness, including access to our free, confidential Employee Wellbeing Program
- Celebrate and feel supported in your diversity. We’ve established internal networks to support our diverse workforce, foster inclusion and allow you to bring your whole self to work
- Full salary packaging benefits
- Extra leave to use in a range of ways to ensure you’re able to perform at your optimum

Does this sound like the place for you?

We’d love to hear from you. Submit your cover letter and resume below.

Note on application process: Save the Children Australia is committed to diversity, inclusion and accessibility. If we didn’t quite hit the mark for you, please let us know at people.culture@savethechildren.org.au. Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. We also support the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. You can read about the Scheme and our commitment to Safeguarding here. Save the Children is committed to providing and maintaining a safe working environment for its employees and client groups, consistent with OH&S obligations.

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