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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

Lead the phone shop team as a Phone Shop Manager at Tesco in Ilkeston, UK. This role involves driving sales, managing budgets, and coaching team members to deliver exceptional customer service and product availability in a supportive, flexible work environment.

Requirements

  • No specific degree or minimum years of experience stated in the posting.
  • Must have passed the school leavers age and be over 18 if the role involves specific hours or areas.
  • Must provide bank account details before the agreed start date.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Customer Focus: Act on customer feedback promptly and lead a service culture to ensure a great shopping experience and lifetime loyalty.
  • Teamwork: Work shoulder to shoulder with the team and area manager to coach standards, celebrate success, and achieve shared goals.
  • Decision Making: Control costs, deliver budgets, manage waste routines, and make timely decisions considering priorities and constraints.
  • Interacting with People: Establish relationships with customers and colleagues from diverse backgrounds, offering expert sales advice and support.
  • Potential transition routes: People from retail supervisor or sales assistant roles may bring customer service and team leadership skills, alongside meeting strong interpersonal and operational requirements.

Job description

You will lead and motivate your team to communicate with our customers, offering expert sales advice and support to make sure that we sell them the best deal that meets their requirements, delivers unbeatable value, a great shopping experience and earns their lifetime loyalty.

Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.

  • You will listen to customers and act on their feedback in a timely manner, following up on all complaints ensuring your team are clear on the role they play in improving the shopping experience based on customer feedback.

  • You will deliver a great shopping trip for customers every day, making sure your team are working effectively as per the Tesco operating model.

  • You will engage your team to deliver the best availability for customers throughout the day, spending time with the Stock and Admin manager to ensure that weekly RFID counts are completed.

  • You will encourage your team to be passionate about our products, and ensure that our product range is presented well, maintaining correct handling and storage routines.

  • You will create a first impression in your area for customers that you can be proud of, coaching your team to maintain shelf standards in the most efficient way, so customers can see and reach the product.

  • You will lead the service culture in your department, always role modelling helpful and friendly service behaviours and demonstrating your enthusiasm to do what is right for our customers.

  • You will actively control costs on your department and deliver your budgets, leading your team to minimise all aspects of waste and complete waste routines accurately.

  • You will work with the business to grow sales, ensuring the successful implementation of scheduled range and merchandising activities in your department.

  • You will engage your team to participate in bringing benefits to the local community, encouraging them to actively participate in our local community strategies.

  • You will make sure your team are trained and have the confidence to approach customers and give them unbeatable value by selling the right products at the right price.

  • You will work shoulder to shoulder with your team, your Area Manager and the management team to coach on what good looks like for the Phone Shop, working together to achieve shared success.

  • You will celebrate success with your team and have pride in their achievements, being a caring manager and treating everyone with respect, helping your team to make the difference for customers and staff.

Behavioural Skills:

  • Interacting with People
    • Establishing relationships and maintaining contacts with people from a wide variety of backgrounds.
  • Customer Focus
    • Understanding the needs of the internal or external customer and keeping them in mind when taking actions or making decisions.
  • Decision Making
    • Making decisions at the appropriate time, taking into account the needs of the situation, priorities, constraints and the availability of necessary information.
  • Teamwork
    • Working co-operatively (rather than competitively) with others to achieve a common goal.

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

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.

We know life looks a little different for each of us. Thats why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

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.

Please note

Tesco will only recruit individuals who have passed the school leavers age. To find out the school leavers age for your country pleaseclick here

We can only accept candidates over the age of 18 if the role requires working before 6:15 am or after 9:45 pm or involves working in areas such as the warehouse, beers, wines & spirits, counters, bakery and driving roles.

On the occasions where we have high volumes of applicants, some roles may close earlier than the advertised end date in order for us to manage all of the applicants appropriately. We will only be able to offer individual feedback to those candidates who attend an interview.

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

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Tesco Retail

Phone Shop Manager

Ilkeston
On-site

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