If you enjoy being around people and have strong interpersonal skills, working in our retail shops might be the right choice for you. It’s more than just a job. It’s a career opportunity to share your passion and retail flair with colleagues as we learn how to better optimise sales and customer service.
First and foremost, you’ll manage our Poole retail shop – supervising one other colleague and a team of volunteers to maximise profit and achieve a great shopping experience for our customers. We’re such a diverse charity that part of your role will be to champion the PDSA name and raise awareness as well, using your knowledge of the local area and your network to generate item and cash donations.
Once your own shop is achieving best practice and sales, we’ll expect you to continually share your retail knowledge with a small cluster of other PDSA Shop Managers in the region so that they too can achieve the same levels of excellence.

• Lead the team to maximise profit by ensuring a great retail experience, strong brand messaging, efficient stock rotation and good use of financial and competitor data
• Coach, recruit and train a team, including volunteers, to be the best they can be encouraging new ideas and ways of doing things
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement constantly reviewing KPIs and performance data to gain insight into what works and what doesn’t
• Be passionate about PDSA as a charity and raise awareness of what we do with every customer