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Working at Tesco Retail

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

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  • United Kingdom
  • Ireland

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Join Tesco as a Skilled Baker in Exeter, UK on a part-time basis. Deliver exceptional customer service, prepare and bake high-quality products, and keep the bakery running smoothly while earning a starting wage of £14.21 per hour.

Requirements

  • Must be over 18 years old.
  • Passion for delivering great customer service and working in a team.
  • Ability to use initiative and make customer-focused decisions.
  • No specific educational requirements or minimum years of experience stated.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Baking and food preparation: Prepare and bake products to high standards, completing key bakery routines from finishing products to quality checks.
  • Customer service: Provide friendly, natural service, offer advice on freshly baked products, and support customer queries.
  • Stock management: Manage stock and support waste reduction to ensure excellent product availability and store performance.
  • Teamwork: Work collaboratively across the bakery and wider store, communicating openly and building rapport with customers.
  • Potential transition routes: People from retail assistant or food service roles may bring customer-facing experience and teamwork skills, alongside meeting the age requirement.

Job description

Customers are at the centre of everything we do. Working in our stores means variety, teamwork, and plenty of daily challenges. You’ll meet great people, learn new skills, and be part of an inclusive team. Whether you want stability, flexibility, or a chance to grow your career, this role could be a great fit.

Tesco Skilled Baker pay starts at £14.21 per hour, rising to £15.48 in stores within the M25. Some locations may offer additional payments.

We guarantee a minimum of 16 hours per week, though roles from 12 hours are also available. Your contracted hours will be scheduled within the availability windows shown, with at least 3 weeks’ notice of your shifts. If your availability is close to what we’re looking for, we still encourage you to apply.

  • Providing friendly, natural service and getting to know your customers, offering advice on freshly baked products and creating a warm, welcoming bakery experience.

  • Providing flexible support across the Bakery and wider store, including preparing and baking products to high standards, maintaining excellent availability, supporting with customer queries, and delivering a friendly, professional service that ensures customers leave feeling valued and well looked after.

  • Making customer focused decisions and completing key bakery routines with care from baking and finishing products to managing stock, and quality checks, throughout the day.

  • Understanding how your role supports great service, strong sales, waste reduction, and overall store performance by producing high quality products and keeping the bakery running smoothly.

  • 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 Colleague - Skilled Baker

Exeter
On-site
£14.21 - £15.48 per hour

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