Nightshift Store Manager — Lead 4 Nights, £4.5k Premium

Sainsbury's; Halifax; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discount card

Annual bonus

Free food and drinks

Pension matching

Cycle to Work

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Sainsbury's is seeking a Lead Nightshift Manager to run overnight operations, ensuring replenishment and readiness for the morning. You will plan around key trading events with the store leadership team, manage pay/schedules, and drive performance while maintaining safety and engagement across the night shift.

You will lead a team of managers, coach for high standards, and own the store’s overnight performance, applying data insights to improve KPI delivery and colleague wellbeing.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large teams in a fast‑paced, customer‑focused environment — you’ve developed leaders, built high‑performing teams, and created a culture of ownership and accountability.
• A track record of delivering exceptional customer experiences across complex operations, with evidence of delivering these through your team.
• Proven success in delivering and improving KPIs — from sales and stock availability to customer satisfaction and colleague engagement, you’ve driven results that matter.
• Experience managing sensitive and complex people matters, including performance, absence, and formal employee relations cases, with confidence, fairness, and sound judgement.
• Leadership experience in an operational environment — retail, hospitality, or food service — where you’ve owned departmental performance and confidently led the store in the absence of senior leadership.
• Can evidence leading change — whether rolling out new ways of working, embedding new systems, or shifting team mindsets, you’ve brought people with you and made change stick.
• Desirable - Demonstrated experience working night shifts in a high‑volume, operational environment — you’ve adapted to the physical and mental demands of overnight working and created a safe, supportive atmosphere for your team during out‑of‑hours trading.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a small team of managers overnight, and together with your colleagues, deliver all replenishment activities ready for our customers the following morning
• Planning for upcoming key trading activities and events by working closely with the rest of the store leadership team.
• People management, including pay and scheduling routines, training, communication and employee relation activities such as managing performance, absence, and completing disciplinaries.
• Regularly taking full accountability for the store overnight, role modelling and coaching for high standards and efficiency across the store.
• Take accountability for the health and safety of every one of the colleagues who works with you on a shift.

Skills

People management

Night shift leadership

KPI focus

Operational excellence

Team development

Job description

Sainsbury's is seeking a Lead Nightshift Manager to run overnight operations, ensuring replenishment and readiness for the morning. You will plan around key trading events with the store leadership team, manage pay/schedules, and drive performance while maintaining safety and engagement across the night shift.

You will lead a team of managers, coach for high standards, and own the store’s overnight performance, applying data insights to improve KPI delivery and colleague wellbeing.