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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.
  • Able to make decisions efficiently and handle change to meet customer and colleague needs.
  • Able to motivate others and balance priorities effectively.
  • Looks for 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 provide duty cover, making decisions that support customers, colleagues, and safety.
  • Act as the point of contact for day-to-day operational queries when the Store Manager is absent.
  • Support the Store Manager in coordinating seasonal, community, and charity events and creating an inclusive atmosphere.
  • Keep the store clean, tidy, and well presented.
  • Prioritise replenishment of products important to customers.
  • Ensure point-of-sale materials and shelf-edge labels are accurate and well presented.
  • Take immediate action to resolve overcharges and prevent recurrence.
  • Proactively manage queues in the store.
  • Coordinate colleagues to deliver daily priorities and schedule breaks around trading patterns.
  • Know the store and coordinate practical actions to improve it.
  • 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.
  • Prioritise customers and resolve their queries, adapting service to their needs.
  • Recognise colleagues who provide great service and help remove obstacles to good service.
  • Resolve colleague queries when the Store Manager is absent or escalate them when appropriate.
  • Ensure appropriate staffing and find shift cover in response to short-term absence or sickness.
  • Act as a store keyholder and attend alarm call-outs when necessary to support store safety and security.
  • Monitor internal communications, ensure messages are actioned promptly, and keep colleagues informed.
  • Coordinate colleagues to meet customer and operational needs, and report shift-related colleague issues to the Store Manager.
  • Balance time across customer service and replenishment areas.
  • Support the Store Manager with absence management, including conducting return-to-work interviews for Customer Service Assistant colleagues and reporting and acting on absence triggers under company procedures.
  • Build relationships with the Area Manager and People Partner, escalate relevant issues promptly, and seek advice and coaching 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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