Tesco Colleague - Seaham

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About the role

Availability Window

1. Days: Tue, Time: 12:30 – 16:30
2. Days: Fri, Time: 14:00 – 23:00
3. Days: Sat, Time: 14:00 – 18:15

Our Tesco Colleague rate of pay starts from £12.45 an hour; this increases to £13.66 for stores within the M25. Additional payments may also apply depending on location.

It\’s our policy to offer new colleagues a minimum of 16 guaranteed hours each week, but if you\’d like to work fewer hours (to a minimum of 12), we have opportunities for this too and would love to hear from you.

The table shows the periods of time in the week we’d like you to be available to work—the availability windows. We will schedule your contracted hours within these times, and you’ll have 3 weeks’ notice of your exact shifts. We support flexibility; if your available times closely match but not exactly the advertised times, we’d still love to hear from you. Click here to read more.

Customers are at the heart of everything we do. It takes many different people to run a store, and this is a role for doers, with plenty of variety. It’s a committed role, full of challenges, but that’s what makes it exciting.

• Help serve our shoppers better every day.
• Meet great people, learn new things, and be part of a diverse team where everyone is welcome.
• Whether you seek stability or flexibility, or the opportunity to progress, this could be the role for you.

PLEASE NOTE: YOU MUST BE OVER 18 TO APPLY FOR THIS ROLE.

Responsibilities

• Knowing your customers and serving them with passion and pride.
• Being knowledgeable about store products and services.
• Working across the store in service, picking, and replenishment areas as needed.
• Applying training to work safely, effectively, and serve customers brilliantly.
• Making customer-centric decisions and delivering routines that meet their needs.
• Participating in seasonal, community, and charity events to create an inclusive atmosphere.
• Understanding store performance and contributing to service, sales, waste reduction, and profit.
• Handling products carefully to maintain quality.
• Living our values, making everyone feel welcome, and following policies.
• Occasionally accepting deliveries into the store.

Minimum requirements

• A passion for delivering great service, greeting customers with a smile, and serving with pride.
• Ability to build rapport and ensure customers have a positive shopping experience.
• Initiative and sound decision-making for customer benefit.
• Ability to work well in a team and communicate openly.
• Building relationships to foster team spirit, have fun, and celebrate success.
• Punctuality, professional appearance, and readiness to represent the brand.

Benefits

• Holiday entitlement starting at 20 days plus a personal day, rising to 22 days after 12 months (plus Bank holidays).
• Request flexible working from day one.
• 10% off and 15% at pay weekends, saving up to £2,000 annually with the Colleague Clubcard.
• Access to free wellbeing resources.
• Life cover of five times your pay and a pension with up to 7.5% matching contributions.
• Various discounts and schemes, including cycle to work.
• Uniform provided and policies supporting all life moments.
• Access to colleague networks for diverse backgrounds. Learn more here.

About Us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer’s favorite way to shop, whether at home or out. Our purpose is \’Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.\’ We aim to act responsibly and sustainably for all stakeholders.

We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, ensuring everyone feels represented and can be themselves at work. We welcome conversations about flexible working and support life-changing moments like career changes, parenthood, or nearing retirement.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and strive for an inclusive, accessible recruitment process. For accessibility support, click here.

Please note: Tesco recruits only those over the school leavers age, which varies by country. For details, click here. Candidates working before 6:15 am or after 9:45 pm, or in specific store areas, must be over 18.

High application volumes may lead to early closing of some roles. We provide feedback only to interviewed candidates. For more about us, visit our website.

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