One Stop - Shift Leader

We’re looking for a Shift Leader to join our team at One Stop, a subsidiary of Tesco. As a Shift Leader, you will be working in a fast-paced retail environment where no day is the same. You will take ownership of store activities by running duty shifts, co-ordinating a team to deliver a clean and full store that exceeds customer expectations.

As the customer is at the heart of everything we do, you will be constantly looking for ways to improve service in your store through on-the-job coaching and feedback. You will have a great understanding of how your store is performing and be the specialist in delivering practical actions for its improvement by taking a hands-on approach. With your guidance, your store will always remain a safe place to work and shop.

You will be Responsible For:

• Coordinate the team to deliver the easiest shopping trip in the community.
• Opening/closing the store and completing duty cover, making sure all decisions are right for customers, colleagues, and everyone’s safety.
• Being the go-to person for colleagues in the absence of the Store Manager for day-to-day operational queries.
• Supporting the Store Manager to co-ordinate seasonal, community and charity events, creating a great inclusive atmosphere.
• Making sure the store is always clean, tidy, and well presented.
• Prioritise the replenishment of products that matter to our customers.
• Making sure point of sale and shelf edge labels reflect what good looks like.
• Taking immediate action for any overcharges and preventing any reoccurrence.
• Proactively manage queues in store to deliver a great shopping trip for our customers.
• Co-ordinating colleagues, ensuring they deliver daily priorities and have their breaks at the right time to fit around trade patterns.
• Being knowledgeable about my store, coordinating others to deliver the practical actions to make improvements.
• Following company health and safety routines and ensuring colleagues do the same.
• Delivering communication to the team, ensuring they are kept well informed.
• Looking at ways to simplify our operations and share these ideas with my Store Manager.
• Always putting the customer first and consider them in everything I do.
• Readily available to resolve customer queries, leaving them with a smile on their face.
• Adjusting the service I give to each customer to meet their needs.
• Recognising and celebrating colleagues giving great service.
• Understanding what may be getting in the way of delivering a great service and helping to remove these obstacles.
• Resolving colleague’s queries in the absence of the Store Manager, or escalating these to the Store Manager where appropriate.
• Ensuring the store is staffed appropriately, reacting to short term absences/sickness by actively finding cover for shifts.
• Being a recognised Keyholder for the store, attending alarm call outs where necessary to ensure the safety and security of the store.
• Monitoring and action any internal comms, ensuring messages are actioned in a timely manner and all colleagues are kept informed.
• Coordinating colleagues to meet the needs of customers and the operations of the store, feeding back to the Store Manager any issues with colleagues in the building during shift(s).
• Balancing your time across service and replenishment areas of the store.
• Actively support your Store Manager in managing absence within the store, ensuring return to work interviews are conducted for CSA Colleagues and absence triggers reported and acted upon in line with the One Stop absence policy procedures.
• Building meaningful relationships with both your Area Manager & People Partner, ensuring you have the knowledge, ability and confidence to escalate relevant issues in a timely manner, seek out advice and support when needed and benefit from in the moment coaching opportunities.

If this store has a Post Office Local, your duties will include the day-to-day operations of the post office therefore you will be required to undertake a Post Office Financial and criminal conviction background check, which you will be required to pass in order to proceed with this role.

As a Shift Leader, I always champion One Stop’s Core Purpose and Values:

Core Purpose: Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

Values:

• Our customers are at the heart of everything we do.
• We treat each other how they like to be treated.
• We work together as one team.
• We make things easier.

About us: One Stop Stores Limited is a retail convenience business with over 1,000 company and franchise neighbourhood stores across Great Britain. We employ more than 10,500 colleagues. The majority of our stores are open seven days a week from 7am to 10pm and offer local communities an impressive range of fresh and chilled food, cupboard essentials, lunchtime meal deals, frozen food, household essentials, snacks and treats, and beers, wines and spirits.

In addition to One Stop’s comprehensive product range, many of our stores offer services to enhance the shopping experience, including free cash machines, Post Office, Evri Parcelshop, PayPoint (for bill payments and mobile top-up), lottery, as well as vending solutions such as Costa Coffee and Tango Ice Blast.

One Stop is a subsidiary of Tesco which acquired the stores in 2003. We operate as a separate business from our Head Office, also known as Store Support Centre in Brownhills, Walsall, West Midlands and we service our stores from 3 distribution centres in Brownhills, Nursling (Hampshire) and Wakefield (West Yorkshire).

We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Leader Level 3 and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

Please Note: One Stop will only recruit individuals who have passed the school leaver’s age.

At One Stop, we value our colleagues just as much as our customers, and part of this is the benefits we offer:

• 10% Discount in One Stop.
• 10% Discount Tesco & Tesco Cafe (increased to 15% on 4 weekly pay weekends).
• 20% Discount on F&F Clothing in Tesco Stores.
• 10% discount at Tesco Mobile, including Colleague Deals which can be shared with friends & family.
• 20% off car, pet and home insurance at Tesco Bank.
• Discounted eye care through Vision Express.
• A range of discounts at Tesco Pharmacy such as 50% off health checks including flu jabs.
• Discounted Simply Health cash plan.
• Colleague Deals and Discounts, allowing access to exclusive savings with a variety of retailers, days out, gyms and much more.
• Save as you earn scheme annual invitation.
• WeCare support service, offering a 24/7 online GP to colleagues & immediate family members, second opinions, mental health support service, get fit programme and much more at no cost to colleagues.
• Annual leave entitlement increases with length of service.
• Retirement Savings Plan.
• Life Assurance.
• Car Allowance (if applicable to job role).
• Private Medical insurance (if applicable to job role).
• Flexible working, we have many forms of flexible working like part-time, job shares, phased retirement, blended working, lifestyle breaks, fixed shift patterns and staggered shift patterns.