Assistant Enterprise Manager Retail Operations

Assistant Enterprise Manager –Retail Operations
Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire

About Us

Dove House Hospice is a dedicated service supporting patients with life limiting illnesses. Providing a range of therapies, services and support, we aim to shine light into the darkest days within a comfortable and caring environment.

We have now created the Humber Wood Recycling Project, in partnership with the National Community Wood Recycling Project (NCWRP), to reduce wood waste, save resources and create training, volunteering and workplace opportunities for people within the local community.

The Humber Wood Recycling Project is a self-funding enterprise that reclaims and reuses wood waste that is primarily generated by the construction industry. The aim is to send nothing to landfill while providing vital opportunities to local people and particularly those who can be considered disadvantaged or marginalised from the labour market.

We’re seeking an Assistant Enterprise Manager to join us and work on the Humber Wood Recycling Project.

Your Rewards

- Salary of up to £19,469 per annum
- Contributory group personal pension
- 22 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays

This is the ideal opportunity for a woodwork or joinery professional with a great management style who is passionate about environmental issues, to advance their career with an incredible charity that is making a real difference in Humberside.

You’ll be joining a project that is impacting waste and enhancing recycling within the construction sectors whilst supporting individuals to get back into work, gain new skills and thrive.

Dove House Hospice has been ranked in the Best 100 Not For Profit Organisations by The Sunday Times, so you can rest assure that you will be joining a charity with integrity and vision where outstanding work is being done every day.

Joining us means bringing your expertise to our environment of passion and dedication where we make a difference to people’s lives. If this sounds like the kind of challenge where you could succeed, apply today.

Your Role

As the Assistant Enterprise Manager, you will play a key role in driving the project forwards, ensuring the wellbeing of staff and volunteers and delivering success.

Working closely with the Enterprise Manager, you will help to steer the project in its primary objective of reducing wood waste and providing meaningful work for staff and volunteers. You will ensure the business is profitable and integrated with other Dove House Hospice trading initiatives, generating profit and transferring it to the Hospice so our great community work can continue.

Your role will also include:

- Assisting in the day-to-day management of the project
- Supporting the achievement of sales targets
- Inspiring great customer service
- Helping to plan a comprehensive collections and delivery service
- Producing creative, saleable items such as planters, tables, benches and coat hooks
- Playing an active role in the delivery of a health and safety focused workplace for all

Your role will involve carrying out heavy manual handling tasks.

About You

To be considered as the Assistant Enterprise Manager, you will need:

- Proven experience in woodwork or joinery
- Team management experience
- Strong health and safety awareness
- To be competent with power and hand tools
- Good attention to detail with a focus on creating high quality products
- An excellent understanding of carpentry techniques and methods of construction
- An interest in environmental issues and recycling
- A full, clean, driving licence
- A CSCS certification (Construction Skills Certification Scheme) card or the willingness to obtain this

Experience in retail and/or of operating an EPOS till would be beneficial to your application.

Other organisations may call this role Enterprise Team Manager, Project Assistant Manager, Fundraising Enterprise Assistant Manager, Woodwork Team Manager, Joinery Team Manager, Charity Retail Manager, Charity Retail Project Manager, Assistant Workshop Manager, or Workshop Team Manager.

The closing date for this role is the 25th October 2019 with interviews scheduled to be held on the 6th November 2019.

Webrecruit, Dove House Hospice and the Humber Wood Recycling Project are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you are ready for your next challenge as an Assistant Enterprise Manager, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.