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Working at Tesco Retail

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

Hiring in

  • United Kingdom
  • Ireland

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Join Tesco at Ayr Extra, UK as a Festive Colleague on a part-time, seasonal basis. This entry-level role offers great flexibility with guaranteed hours between 7.5 and 12 per week, early morning starts, and a competitive pay rate starting from £13.28 per hour. You will help deliver Christmas cheer by serving customers, stocking shelves, and picking orders.

Requirements

  • No prior experience or specific educational qualifications are required.
  • Candidates must be over the age of 18.
  • Must be punctual, well-presented, and ready to act as a brand ambassador.
  • A passion for customer service and working well within a team is essential.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Customer Service: Deliver a brilliant shopping experience by greeting customers with a smile and serving them with pride.
  • Stock Management: Tackle a range of tasks including stocking shelves and ensuring products are in the right place.
  • Order Fulfillment: Pick orders for home delivery or the Click and Collect service.
  • Teamwork: Build positive relationships with colleagues to foster team spirit and celebrate success.
  • Potential transition routes: People from retail sales assistant, hospitality, or customer service roles may bring great communication and interpersonal skills, alongside meeting the positive and flexible requirements of 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. For all hours worked between midnight and 6am you will receive an additional night premium of 2.35 per hour worked. Additional payments may also apply depending on location and skills.

Fancy a festive in-store role? Weve 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 youre warm and welcoming, youll feel right at home withour caring, friendly bunch.

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

PLEASE NOTE YOU MUST BE OVER 18 TO APPLY FOR THIS ROLE.

During our peak Festive weeks this role may require a 4am start.

  • Youll help deliver Christmas cheer for households across the nation.

  • Youll 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, youll take pride in making sure that customers get a brilliant experience.

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

  • The ability to build rapport with customers, meaning they leave the store having experienced a great shopping trip

  • To take the initiative and make decisions that are right for our customers

  • Work well within a team and communicate openly with others

  • Build relationships with colleagues to create a team spirit, having fun and celebrating success

  • Be at work on time, well presented and ready to be a brand ambassador

At home or on-the-go, we want to be every customers favourite way to shop. Thats why our purpose is to serve our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We are happy to support flexibility for our colleagues in stores, and this can mean different things for different people. So if you are interested, we are happy to discuss how we can make this work for you, therefore if the times youre available to work match closely but not exactly to the times we are advertising, wed still love to hear from you.

Its our policy to offer our festivecolleagues joining us a minimum of 12guaranteed hours each week, but if youd 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

Everyones welcome

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, were a place where Everyones Welcome.

Please note

If the role involves working in the warehouse, beers, wines & spirits, bakery, or driving, we are only able to accept candidates over the age of 18.

While we're unable to provide individual feedback to all applicants, we will aim to provide feedback to candidates who are interviewed.

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

For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com

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Tesco Retail

Festive Colleague - Early Mornings - Ayr Extra

Ayr
On-site
£13.28 per hour + £2.35 night premium

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