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Working at Tesco

  • Company employees
    330,000+
  • Gender diversity (m:f)
    49:51

Hiring in

  • United Kingdom
  • Ireland

Office locations

Join Tesco as a Festive Colleague in Southampton, UK. This part-time retail role offers great flexibility with a minimum of 12 guaranteed hours per week (or a minimum of 7.5 hours if preferred) and pay starting from £13.28 per hour. You will help deliver Christmas cheer by serving customers, stocking shelves, and picking orders.

Requirements

  • Must be over 18 years of age.
  • No previous experience required.
  • A passion for delivering great service and building rapport with customers.
  • Ability to use initiative, work well in a team, and communicate openly.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Customer Service: Deliver a brilliant experience by greeting customers with a smile and serving them with pride.
  • Inventory Management: Stock shelves and make sure products are where they need to be.
  • Order Fulfillment: Put together orders for home delivery or the Click and Collect service.
  • Teamwork: Work well in a team, use initiative, and communicate openly to celebrate success.
  • Potential transition routes: People from retail, hospitality, or customer service roles may bring strong communication and interpersonal skills, alongside meeting the age and attitude requirements for this job.

Job description

Our Tesco Colleague rate of pay starts from £13.28 an hour; this increases to £14.55 for stores inside the M25. Additional payments may also apply depending on location and skills.

Fancy a festive in-store role? We’ve got all kinds of opportunities and shifts available.

Across the country, our customers count on us to make magic happen during the festive season. And we need your help. Working in store, you'll tackle a range of tasks, from serving customers and stocking shelves, to picking orders for home delivery. No day is ever the same, and you'll feel your impact on every shift, as you send customers home with a smile. What's more? No experience is necessary - just the right attitude.

Because here, it all comes down to helping people: customers, colleagues, communities. If you’re warm and welcoming, you’ll feel right at home with our caring, friendly bunch.

It all adds up to a role where you can do good, and feel good, while enjoying great flexibility. Let’s make every day a little better. Especially at Christmas.

It’s our policy to offer our festive colleagues joining us a minimum of 12 guaranteed hours each week, but if you’d like to work fewer hours (to a minimum of 7.5) we have opportunities for this too and would still love to hear from you

PLEASE NOTE YOU MUST BE OVER 18 FOR THIS ROLE.

  • You’ll help deliver Christmas cheer for households across the nation.

  • You’ll provide support in store during the busy festive period.

  • You could be stocking shelves and making sure products are where they need to be.

  • Or, you could be serving customers and putting together orders for our Click and Collect service.

  • Whatever the task, you’ll take pride in making sure that customers get a brilliant experience.

  • To be over 18 for this role.

  • A passion for delivering great service, greeting customers with a smile, and serving them with pride.

  • To build rapport so customers leave having had a great experience.

  • To use your initiative and make the right decisions for customers.

  • To work well in a team and communicate openly, having fun, and celebrating success.

Tesco’s vision is to be every customer’s favourite way to shop. Our purpose is to serve our customers, communities and the planet a little better every day by acting responsibly and sustainably.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) 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 are a place where Everyone's Welcome.

We understand that life varies for each of us, so we’re always open to conversations about flexible working. Talk to us during your application about how we can support you.

We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader, and we are committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

Tesco will only recruit individuals who have passed the school leaver's age. To find out the school leavers age for your country please visit the Government website here

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Tesco

Festive Colleague

Southampton
On-site
From £13.28 per hour

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