What you’ll be doing:
Charity Relationship Management: You'll be the primary contact for Wickes' charity activities, building strong relationships with our charity partner, understanding their mission and key campaigns, and collaborating to develop engaging and impactful initiatives.
Fundraising Campaigns: Working closely with our corporate charity partner, you'll create, plan, execute, and evaluate engaging fundraising initiatives that align with both Wickes' and the charity's goals. This includes leading the generation and organisation of events in stores, our support centre, and distribution centres, coordinating fundraising activities both internally and externally.
Colleague Engagement: You'll foster a collaborative environment and engage with all areas of the business, particularly Retail, Distribution, and Commercial, to drive colleague engagement with charity activities and events.
Internal Stakeholder Management: You'll work closely with key stakeholders and cross-functional teams, including Retail, Commercial, Marketing, and Internal Communications, to align charity initiatives with Wickes' overall business objectives. You’ll influence and engage with leaders at all levels to drive colleague engagement and deliver the objectives of the charity partnership.
Organisation: You'll plan ahead to ensure all partnership activities and events are well prepared, delivered, and executed, aligning with Wickes' calendar of events and business priorities, as well as the charities' calendar of events and campaigns. You'll also manage the day-to-day communication and administration for all charity-related matters.
Analysis and Reporting: You'll monitor and evaluate the impact of charity initiatives, tracking key metrics (including financial and payment performance) and preparing reports for internal and external stakeholders. You'll use data-driven insights to continuously improve and refine the Wickes' charity programme.
Compliance: You'll ensure fundraising processes and practices across the business comply with fundraising legislation, and raise any concerns with suggested solutions to resolve.
Communication: Working with our corporate charity partner and our internal communications team, you'll produce compelling content for digital channels, point-of-sale materials, social media posts, website updates, email campaigns, and newsletters.
What we’re looking for:
Experience:
Project and Events management experience
Experience of working with charities or similar (preferred)
Experience of working in a retail environment (preferred)
Experience managing budgets (preferred)
Skills:
Tech Savvy – competent at producing slide decks and spreadsheets
Creative – full of ideas to engage teams and customers, with proven experience on how to bring them to life
Exceptional organisational skills
Strong attention to detail
Excellent influencer at all levels in the business
Engaging communicator, presenting in front of small and large audiences
Knowledge:
Other Attributes:
Passionate about charity and fundraising
Confident – energetic and outgoing, a natural networker and presenter
Proactive – a drive to succeed with a proven track record
There will be some travel to our Charity’s Head Office, out to our Stores and Distribution Centre. A full drivers licence and your own transport is preferred.
What Can We Offer You?
You’ll be supported with fantastic learning and development and have the opportunity to grow and develop your career with us.
We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that includes:
Competitive bonus
Save-as-you-earn scheme
Private Medical and Life Assurance
Enhanced contributory pension scheme
Colleague discount
Discount platform including savings and cash back at numerous retailers, savings on gym membership, cycle to work scheme
Our widely recognised wellbeing strategy is something we’re proud of at Wickes. As part of this, we offer a range of health and wellbeing benefits and support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, financial education & loans, and access to parental, menopause, and fertility support.
You’ll work from our Support Centre in Watford, where our Legal & Sustainability team are based, along with our other support functions. We recognise the value of bringing our teams together to collaborate, support each other, and build on our amazing culture. We are also encouraging our teams to work flexibly, with a blend of remote / office working.
About Us:
Wickes is a multi-channel retailer operating in the home improvement market. With 50 years in industry, Wickes now generates revenue in excess of £1.6bn across 230 stores delivered by 8,000+ colleagues.
But it is the Wickes’ culture that is considered its best kept secret; it’s a collaborative, down-to-earth, fun, and inclusive environment where people feel part of a winning team. All our colleagues come from different backgrounds, but what we all have in common is a determination to succeed and a passion for being the best we can be. If that sounds like you, we’ll make you feel right at home.
Please contact us here if you require any adjustments within the application process. If you require any reasonable adjustments at the interview stage, you will have an opportunity to inform us when we invite you to interview. Please note, this link is only for reasonable adjustments required – general enquiries or direct CV applications cannot be accepted via this form.
