Retail Area Manager - Maternity Leave Contract

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. We need you to support our shop network in South Australia that is run by volunteers. This is a pivotal role in ensuring the success of our existing and future network of shops.

A place to make a difference:

In this full time, max term role (12 month maternity leave cover), you’ll work as a part of our Retail team across Adelaide to help us create lasting change for children everywhere. The Area Manager plays an important role in delivering on our vision of a better world for children. Daily travel within Adelaide will be required, as well as occasional weekend and evening work.

You will make a difference by:

· Managing profit and loss performance for all stores in your area

· Training, managing, and mentoring your team of volunteers to success

· Managing merchandise and stock to maximise sales

· Ensuring all operational and safety compliance

· Supporting the team to achieve goals and deliver maximised profits to Save the Children Australia

A place to feel valued:

You’re a dynamic, passionate, people-orientated and organised individual who loves to think outside the box. Ideally, you are an existing Area Manager, Cluster Manager, or Senior Store Manager looking to take the next step in your retail career. If you are passionate about people and retail, are highly organised and want to contribute to an amazing and well-respected cause, this role is for you.

This role requires:

· Strong retail management skills across all aspects of retail operations

· Multi-site or big-box retail management experience

· Demonstrated leadership skills, with a successful track record in managing, engaging and developing staff

· Strong written, interpersonal, and verbal communication skills

· Strong time management and organisational skills with the ability to adapt quickly

· A customer service focus with motivation to improve customer experience

A place to belong:

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 (if that’s what you want!) (Pride@Save, Parents and Carers@Save, Mental Wellness Alliance, Disability@Save, First Nations Advisory Committee).

· Full salary packaging benefits (please use this link to see how much this benefit could mean to you!)

· Extra leave to use in a range of ways to ensure you’re able to perform at your optimum

Follow this link for the full list of our employee benefits.

Does this sound like the place for you?

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

We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates to apply.

Applications close 4pm ACST, Friday 4th July 2025.

Position Description – SA Area Manager

For more information about this position, please contact Brad Halliday on brad.halliday@savethechildren.org.au or for more information about a career at Save, visit our Careers Page.

We have tested our application process with diverse groups in mind, with the intent to ensure it's straightforward and accessible for all to apply. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and improve our ability to reach our most vulnerable client groups. But we also know there is no one-size fits-all when it comes to recruitment - so if we didn’t quite hit the mark for you, please let us know at people.culture@savethechildren.org.au. We’re dedicated to ensuring Save the Children Australia is a place where everyone can feel supported – no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity, culture and beliefs.

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.

Save the Children is committed to providing and maintaining a safe working environment for its employees and client groups, consistent with our obligations under OH&S legislation.

If you are having any issues with uploading your application for this role, please contact people.culture@savethechildren.org.au for further support.