Gloucestershire Guild Limited
Location
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire | United Kingdom
Job description
The Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen is a prestigious and long established membership organisation with a shop/gallery selling members work.
A vacancy has now arisen for a full time manager. This is an exciting and rewarding position for the right person, someone who is self motivated, able to manage their own time and tasks, able to maximise sales and achieve the best for the Guild with the support of their manager and members of the Guild.
This person should be able to demonstrate that they have worked in a similar role with a high level of competence and good humour and ideally with knowledge and enthusiasm for contemporary crafts.
To apply, please email your CV and application letter with subject title Job Vacancy [email protected]
Hours: 37 ½ hours per week
Annual Salary: £27,300
Annual holiday entitlement: 28 days (includes bank holidays)
Annual Bonus entitlement : To be agreed
Pension : To be arranged
Duties:
1. Shop stock duties
• Co-ordinating the delivery of members’ work
• Coding, labelling and entering stock details onto Shopify
• Liaising with Guild members to arrange restocking
• Liaising with the Guild Treasurer when required
• Selecting and ordering non-Guild cards for re-sale
• Selecting and ordering all necessary packaging materials
• Packing and shipping online orders
2. Display
• Displaying members work to the best advantage
• Changing displays regularly including the window displays
3. Managing the shop
• Building relationships with customers and selling members work
• Taking responsibility for security within the shop, opening up in the morning and securing at the end of the day
• Providing clear instructions for the members & volunteers about the day-to-day running of the shop
• Liaising with members about their volunteer hours supporting the shop
• Liaising with members about stock and display requirements
• Ensuring that the shop fixtures, fittings and equipment are in good order and working properly
• Ensuring that the shop is kept clean
• Carrying out induction of new Guild members into the shop stewarding procedures
• Keeping the Shop Procedures Manual up to date
5. Financial – in conjunction with the Guild Treasurer
• Daily reconciliation of all transactions of cash and card sales
• Banking cash on a regular basis using the paying in book supplied
6. Marketing and promotion
• Attending a monthly Guild Marketing Committee meeting by Zoom.
• Supplying regular shop stock images for use on social media, press releases, magazine entries etc and placing in a designated Guild Dropbox
• Developing links with related events in and around Cheltenham to maximise promotional opportunities
7. Supporting the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen
• Providing information about members to customers
• Forwarding non shop related emails from the 2 Guild email boxes to the Chairperson.
• Providing a monthly Shop Report to their manager, the Guild Chairperson
• Reporting any concerns and issues to the Chairperson.
To apply, please email your CV and application letter with subject title Job Vacancy. Email to
[email protected] Closing date for applications 20th March 2024
Interview date : 27th March
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£27.3k per annum
