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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 One Stop in Taunton, UK as a Shift Leader. This hands-on role involves running duty shifts, coordinating store activities, and supporting the Store Manager to ensure a clean, safe, and customer-focused retail environment.

Requirements

  • No specific degree or minimum years of experience stated.
  • Must be able to pass a Post Office Financial and criminal conviction background check if the store includes a Post Office Local.
  • Strong soft skills including communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and adaptability.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Customer Focus: Provide exceptional service by resolving customer queries promptly and adjusting service to meet individual needs.
  • Teamwork: Coordinate colleagues to ensure daily priorities, breaks, and task distributions run smoothly.
  • Problem-Solving: Act as the go-to person for operational queries, resolve issues, and take immediate action for store improvements.
  • Attention to Detail: Maintain a clean, well-presented store with accurate shelf edge labels and proper product replenishment.
  • Potential transition routes: People from retail sales assistant or hospitality team member roles may bring customer service and teamwork skills, alongside meeting the operational and leadership requirements of this job.

Job description

Were looking for a Shift Leader to join our team at One Stop, a subsidiary of Tesco. As a Shift Leader, you will be working in a fast paced retail environment where no day is the same.

You will take ownership of store activities by running duty shifts, co-ordinating a team to deliver a clean and full store that exceeds customer expectations.

As the customer is at the heart of everything we do, you will be constantly looking for ways to improve service in your store through on the job coaching and feedback

You will have a great understanding of how your store is performing and be the specialist in delivering practical actions for its improvement by taking a hands on approach.

With your guidance, your store will always remain a safe place to work and shop.

  • Coordinate the team to deliver the easiest shopping trip in the community

  • Opening/closing the store and completing duty cover, making sure all decisions are right for customers, colleagues, and everyones safety.

  • Being the go-to person for colleagues in the absence of the Store Manager for day-to-day operational queries.

  • Supporting the Store Manager to co-ordinate seasonal, community and charity events, creating a great inclusive atmosphere.

  • Making sure the store is always clean, tidy, and well presented.

  • Prioritise the replenishment of products that matter to our customers.

  • Making sure point of sale and shelf edge labels reflect what good looks like.

  • Taking immediate action for any overcharges and preventing any reoccurrence.

  • Proactively manage queues in store to deliver a great shopping trip for our customers.

  • Co-ordinating colleagues, ensuring they deliver daily priorities and have their breaks at the right time to fit around trade patterns.

  • Being knowledgeable about my store, coordinating others to deliver the practical actions to make improvements.

  • Following company health and safety routines and ensuring colleagues do the same.

  • Delivering communication to the team, ensuring they are kept well informed.

  • Looking at ways to simplify our operations and share these ideas with my Store Manager.

  • Always putting the customer first and consider them in everything I do.

  • Readily available to resolve customer queries, leaving them with a smile on their face.

  • Adjusting the service, I give to each customer to meet their needs.

  • Recognising and celebrating colleagues giving great service.

  • Understanding what may be getting in the way of delivering a great service and helping to remove these obstacles.

  • Resolving colleagues queries in the absence of the Store Manager, or escalating these to the Store Manager where appropriate

  • Ensuring the store is staffed appropriately, reacting to short term absences/sickness by actively finding cover for shifts.

  • Being a recognised Keyholder for the store, attending alarm call outs where necessary to ensure the safety and security of the store

  • Monitoring and action any internal comms, ensuring messages are actioned in a timely manner and all colleagues are kept informed

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Tesco Retail

One Stop - Shift Leader

Taunton
On-site
  • Coordinating colleagues to meet the needs of customers and the operations of the store, feeding back to the Store Manager any issues with colleagues in the building during shift(s).

  • Balancing your time across service and replenishment areas of the store.

  • Actively support your Store Manager in managing absence within the store, ensuring return to work interviews are conducted for CSA Colleagues and absence triggers reported and acted upon in line with the One Stop absence policy procedures

  • Building meaningful relationships with both your Area Manager & People Partner, ensuring you have the knowledge, ability and confidence to escalate relevant issues in a timely manner, seek out advice and support when needed and benefit from in the moment coaching opportunities.

  • If this store has a Post Office Local, Your duties will include the day to day operations of the post office therefore you will be required to undertake a Post Office Financial and criminal conviction background check, which you will be required to pass in order to proceed with this role, if these checks fail, we will be forced to withdraw the job offer.

  • Communication Skills

  • Customer Focus

  • Problem-Solving

  • Teamwork

  • Attention to Detail

  • Adaptability

  • Technical Skills

  • Time Management

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