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Tesco

Grocery and general merchandise retailer

One Stop – Shift Leader

Retail Store ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeUnited KingdomNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Able to role model great customer service and ensure customers' needs are met.
  • Able to build strong relationships with colleagues and encourage them to perform at their best.
  • Able to communicate clearly and keep the team informed.
  • Confident taking the lead when in charge of the store.
  • Flexible in decision-making and able to handle change efficiently.
  • Energetic and able to motivate others to deliver expectations and balance priorities.
  • Looks for ideas and opportunities to improve the customer shopping trip and support the community.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate the team to deliver an easy shopping trip for the community.
  • Open and close the store and complete duty cover, making decisions that support customers, colleagues, and safety.
  • Act as the go-to person for colleagues' day-to-day operational queries when the Store Manager is absent.
  • Support the Store Manager in coordinating seasonal, community, and charity events.
  • Keep the store clean, tidy, and well presented.
  • Prioritize replenishment of products important to customers.
  • Ensure point-of-sale materials and shelf-edge labels meet required standards.
  • Take immediate action on overcharges and prevent recurrence.
  • Proactively manage in-store queues.
  • Coordinate colleagues to deliver daily priorities and take breaks at times that fit trade patterns.
  • Know the store and coordinate practical improvements.
  • Follow company health and safety routines and ensure colleagues do the same.
  • Communicate information to the team and keep colleagues informed.
  • Identify ways to simplify operations and share ideas with the Store Manager.
  • Put customers first in decisions and actions.
  • Resolve customer queries and adapt service to individual customer needs.
  • Recognize and celebrate colleagues who provide great service.
  • Identify and help remove obstacles to delivering good service.
  • Resolve colleagues' queries in the Store Manager's absence, escalating issues where appropriate.
  • Ensure appropriate staffing and find shift cover when short-term absences or sickness arise.
  • Act as a store keyholder and attend alarm call-outs when needed to support store safety and security.
  • Monitor internal communications and ensure messages are actioned promptly and communicated to colleagues.
  • Coordinate colleagues to meet customer and operational needs and report colleague-related issues to the Store Manager.
  • Balance time across customer service and replenishment areas.
  • Support the Store Manager in managing absence, conduct return-to-work interviews for CSA colleagues, and report and act on absence triggers in line with company procedures.
  • Build relationships with the Area Manager and People Partner, escalating relevant issues and seeking advice and support when needed.

About the Company

Tesco

Grocery and general merchandise retailer

Tesco is best understood as a multinational grocery and general-merchandise retailer. The group combines customer-facing retail with distribution, digital, commercial, and analytical capabilities. It serves households through stores and online shopping while also operating wholesale, data-science, and financial-service businesses. Work spans stores, fulfillment, supply chain, product, technology, data, finance, and group functions. The scope reflects Tesco PLC and its principal business lines without implying every role sits in the core supermarket operation.

Company size
Not listed
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Broxbourne, United Kingdom
Founded
1919

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