Tesco Shift Leader - Days - Penrith Express

Availability Window: Sun 05:30:00-23:15:00, Mon 05:30:00-23:15:00, Tue 05:30:00-23:15:00, Wed 05:30:00-23:15:00, Thu 05:30:00-23:15:00, Fri 05:30:00-23:15:00, Sat 05:30:00-23:15:00

Pay: Our Shift Leader rate of pay starts from £15.59 an hour; this increases to £16.86 for stores inside the M25. Additional payments may also apply depending on location.

Hours: It’s our policy to offer new colleagues joining us 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 still love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Work in a fast‑paced retail environment, with bags of variety.
• Take ownership of running duty shifts, coordinating the team to deliver a clean, well‑stocked store that exceeds customer expectations.
• Be there for customers, listening to them and helping to make sure they leave the store with what they came for.
• Look for ways to improve service, including coaching your colleagues and giving feedback to the team.
• Guide and support your colleagues in‑store, ensuring it’s a safe place to work and shop.
• Maintain a great understanding of how your store is performing, and assist managers in delivering any actions that help improve the running of the store.
• Lead from the front, and set a great example for your colleagues in everything you do.
• Coordinating the store team to deliver an easy, fuss‑free shopping experience for customers.
• Supporting your colleagues, ensuring they deliver daily priorities and take regular breaks.
• Opening and closing the store, and completing duty cover, ensuring all decisions made are right for everyone's safety.
• Being the go‑to person for colleagues in the absence of a manager for day‑to‑day queries.
• Making sure the store is always clean, tidy, and well‑presented.
• Supporting managers to coordinate seasonal, community and charity events.
• Contributing to a great team atmosphere, inclusive of everyone.
• Providing great customer service by listening to customers and putting them first in everything you do.
• Keeping the team well‑informed and up to speed on communications, changes, or updates.
• Staying knowledgeable about store performance, looking for ways to improve and simplify operations.
• Coordinating store improvements and removing obstacles that might affect great service.
• Following health and safety routines and procedures, ensuring colleagues do the same.
• Recognising and celebrating colleagues within the team who are providing great service.
• To be a great role model, always giving thoughtful customer service that ensures every customer's needs are met.
• To build strong, long‑lasting relationships with colleagues to create a positive and inclusive team atmosphere that encourages everyone to do their best work.
• To be a clear communicator, comfortable with using a variety of methods to keep your team well‑informed and up to date.
• To be comfortable taking the lead, and overseeing the store in the absence of your Manager.
• To be a good decision maker, flexible in thinking, and comfortable handling change to ensure everything we do is right for customers and colleagues.
• To be motivating, so you can inspire your team to deliver beyond expectations.

Eligibility: Please note that you need to be 18 or over to apply for this role. Tesco will only recruit individuals who have passed the school leaver’s age. We can only accept candidates over the age of 18 if the role requires working before 6:15 am or after 9:45 pm or involves working in areas such as the warehouse, beers, wines.