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Retail Store Manager

CANCER RESEARCH UK
26,789 per year
Newton Abbott (Queens St) shop
Full-time
19th July 2026
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Retail Store Manager (Newton Abbott - Queens St)

locations
Newton Abbot Shop (Queen St)
Newton Abbot Shop (Courtenay)
time type
Full time
posted on
Posted Yesterday
job requisition id
R033936

Endless pre-loved items. A crucial source of fundraising. A store that runs your way.  

Retail Store Manager 

£26,789 - £31,385 per annum plus benefits

Reports to: Area manager 

Department: ​Trading​ 

Contract: Fixed-term contract until 15th January 2026 

Hours: ​Full time 37.5 hours per week​  

Location: Newton Abbott (Queens St) shop

External closing date: 19th July 2026 23:55 

Internal: In line with organisational policy this role will remain open for internal applications until: 19th July 2026 23:55 

​​At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.​ 

​​We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That’s why we’re looking for someone talented, someone who shares our vision, someone like you. ​

We’re looking for a motivating store manager to join Cancer Research UK’s trading team. You’ll be acting as an ambassador for Cancer Research UK, motivating your team to maximise on sales and fundraising targets. Your shop will be a place where your community gets to meet our people, understand our brand, and see some of the great things we do.

You’ll also be surrounded by people who are as dedicated to beating cancer as you are.

What will I be doing? 

  • Guiding, inspiring and engaging a team of paid staff and volunteers. This includes recruitment, retention and development of a diverse shop team.

  • Taking ownership and responsibility for commercial running of your store including display and merchandising, stock management, maintaining shop standards, store layout, sales and income.

  • Leading by example and providing excellent customer and supporter service.

  • Maximising profit through effective cost control and sales.

  • Creating relationships with your local community and Cancer Research UK colleagues.

  • Organising and running creative fundraising events for your store to achieve fundraising targets.

  • Maintaining compliance with health and safety, safeguarding, security, administration and HR policies.

  • There will be a varied amount of manual handling and physical activity required within the day-to-day duties of the role.

What are you looking for? 

  • Experience of managing and inspiring a diverse team of people.

  • Comfort working within targets and motivating others to achieve those targets.

  • The ability to multi-task in a lively environment.

  • Working knowledge of what makes great customer service.

  • Commercial awareness.

  • Knowledge of high street fashion retail.

  • Adaptability in changing situations, including being able to work effectively independently.

  • An awareness of the price, value and worth of items.

  • Flexibility, our retail teams cover the needs of their stores by working on a rota basis. Whilst a level of flexibility is needed to meet the needs of the business, we don’t forget that you have a life outside of work too.

What will I gain? 

We make sure you are supported by a generous salary and benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.

Our retail teams also have access to confidential wellbeing support from the Retail Trust.

How do I apply? 

To support your training and development in this role, you will spend 4 weeks in a training shop, learning from a Training Shop Manager, this may be at a different location to the role you applied for.

Owing to the nature of this position, any offer of employment for this role will be subject to a satisfactory basic DBS check.

For more information on this career opportunity please  visit our website or contact us at 

. recruitment@cancer.org.uk

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We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen. Please contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk or 020 3469 8400 as soon as possible.