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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 – Nights in York, UK, and help make magic happen for customers this Christmas. This entry-level role offers great flexibility with a minimum of 12 guaranteed hours per week (or down to 7.5 hours) and a starting pay of £13.28 per hour plus a £2.35 per hour night premium for hours worked between midnight and 6am.

Requirements

  • Must be over 18 years of age and past the school leaver's age.
  • No prior experience is necessary.
  • A warm, welcoming attitude and a passion for delivering great service.
  • Ability to use initiative, build rapport, and work well in a team.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Customer Service: Deliver a brilliant in-store experience by greeting customers, serving them with pride, and building positive rapport.
  • Stock Management: Stock shelves efficiently and ensure products are correctly placed where they need to be.
  • Order Fulfillment: Pick orders accurately for home delivery and Click and Collect services to support busy festive shoppers.
  • Teamwork: Communicate openly within a team to have fun, celebrate success, and make the right decisions for customers.
  • Potential transition routes: People from retail assistant, hospitality, or warehousing roles may bring strong customer service and teamwork 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. 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? 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

  • 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 – Nights

York
On-site
From £13.28 / hour + night premium

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