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Working at Tesco Retail

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

Hiring in

  • United Kingdom
  • Ireland

Office locations

Join Tesco as a Festive Colleague in Leeds, working part-time early morning shifts with a guaranteed minimum of 12 hours per week (or a minimum of 7.5 hours if preferred). This temporary holiday role offers a starting pay of £13.28 per hour, focusing on delivering exceptional customer service and support during the busy Christmas season.

Requirements

  • Must be over 18 years of age and past the school leaver's age.
  • No prior experience is necessary.
  • A passion for delivering great service, building rapport, and greeting customers with a smile.
  • Ability to use initiative, work well in a team, and communicate openly.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Customer Service: A warm and welcoming attitude enables you to serve customers, build rapport, and ensure they leave with a smile.
  • Inventory Management: Initiative and teamwork allow you to stock shelves and make sure products are where they need to be.
  • Order Fulfillment: Attention to detail and efficiency help you pick and assemble orders for home delivery and Click and Collect services.
  • Teamwork: Open communication and a positive attitude support working well in a team to celebrate success during the festive period.
  • Potential transition routes: People from retail, hospitality, or customer service roles may bring strong interpersonal and teamwork skills, alongside meeting the age requirement and a passion for service.

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 Retail

Tesco Festive Colleague – Early mornings

Leeds
On-site
£13.28 - £14.55 per hour

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