Tesco Shift Leader - Days - North Shields Extra

There are a lot of reasons why Tesco is a great place to work. Here are just a few of them:

• There’s bags of variety. As Shift Leader, no two days are the same, and with flexible hours and shift patterns, you can work the hours that suit your lifestyle.
• We take your development seriously, so this is a great place to get on in your career. You’ll have ongoing learning opportunities and access to award-winning training, so you can achieve the career you want.
• It’s an inclusive place where everyone’s welcome. We celebrate the individuality of our colleagues - because they’re what makes Tesco, Tesco.
• Your voice matters, and we’ll always welcome and listen to your ideas and opinions.
• We put your wellbeing first, and support is always available if you need it.
• Our colleagues are truly great people, so you can be confident that wherever you work in Tesco, you’ll be in good company.

Our benefits include:

• Holiday starting at 20 days plus a personal day rising to 22 days after 12 months (plus Bank holidays).
• Request flexible working from day one.
• Get 10% off and 15% at payday weekends – save up to £2,000 a year with your Colleague Clubcard with an additional card to share with family outside your home.
• Access to free wellbeing services with a range of resources to support your mind, body, and life.
• Life cover of five times your pay and an award-winning pension with matching contributions up to 7.5%.
• Benefits to suit you, choose what you use – from discounts and shares to cycle to work schemes.
• Uniform provided and policies to support you for all of life’s moments, big and small.
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds.

About the role:

• Availability Window: Sun 06:00:00 - 22:00:00, Mon 06:00:00 - 22:00:00, Tue 06:00:00 - 22:00:00, Wed 06:00:00 - 22:00:00, Thu 06:00:00 - 22:00:00, Fri 06:00:00 - 22:00:00, Sat 06:00:00 - 22:00:00.
• Our Shift Leader rate of pay starts from £14.28 an hour; this increases to £15.41 for stores inside the M25. Additional payments may also apply depending on location and skills.
• 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.

Customers are at the heart of everything we do. It takes a lot of great people to run one of our stores, and it takes a great Shift Leader to support them all and keep things running smoothly. From helping customers to making sure store operations stay on track, being a Shift Leader at Tesco is a truly rewarding role. You’ll face lots of interesting challenges as you oversee the store from the shop floor and strive to make things just that little bit better for customers, colleagues, and communities every day.

As a Shift Leader you’ll:

• 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, making sure it stays 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.
• Support your colleagues, ensuring they deliver daily priorities and take regular breaks.
• Open and close the store, and complete duty cover, ensuring all decisions made are right for everyone’s safety.
• Be the go-to person for colleagues in the absence of a manager for day-to-day queries.
• Make sure the store is always clean, tidy, and well-presented.
• Support managers to coordinate seasonal, community, and charity events.
• Contribute to a great team atmosphere, that’s inclusive of everyone.
• Provide great customer service, by listening to our customers and putting them first in everything you do.
• Keep the team well-informed and up to speed on any communications, changes, or updates.
• Stay knowledgeable about store performance, and look for ways to improve and simplify operations.
• Coordinate store improvements, and remove any obstacles that might be getting in the way of great service.
• Follow health and safety routines and procedures, and ensure colleagues do the same.
• Recognise and celebrate colleagues within the team who are providing great service.
• Build strong, long-lasting relationships with colleagues to create a positive and inclusive team atmosphere that encourages everyone to do their best work.
• Be a clear communicator, comfortable with using a variety of methods to keep your team well-informed and up to date.
• Be comfortable taking the lead, and overseeing the store in the absence of your Manager.
• Be a good decision maker, who’s flexible in the way you think, and comfortable handling change to ensure everything we do is right for customers and colleagues.
• Be motivating, so you can inspire your team to deliver beyond expectations.
• Be curious, and always on the lookout for ideas and opportunities to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

About us:

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer’s favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of, and for the planet.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome.

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

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

Please note that Tesco will only recruit individuals who have passed the school leaver’s age. To find out the school leaver’s age for your country, please click here.

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 & spirits, counters, bakery, and driving roles.

On the occasions where we have high volumes of applicants, some roles may close earlier than the advertised end date in order for us to manage all of the applicants appropriately. We will only be able to offer individual feedback to those candidates who attend an interview.