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Tesco; Cranbrook; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 20,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible festive hours

12 guaranteed hours per week

Opportunities for fewer hours (7.5)

Job summary

Tesco is hiring for a Festive Colleague (Days) at our Cranbrook store. This in-store role offers flexible shifts during the Christmas period with no experience required beyond a positive attitude.

You’ll help with serving customers, stocking shelves, and fulfilling Click and Collect orders while delivering a friendly shopping experience. The role emphasises great customer service, teamwork, and reliability, with options for different hours per week and a minimum guaranteed 12 hours.

Qualifications

• Passion for delivering great service with a smile.
• Ability to build rapport with customers for a positive shopping experience.
• Proactive and able to make customer-focused decisions.
• Works well in a team and communicates openly.
• Builds relationships to foster team spirit and celebrate success.
• Punctual, well presented and a brand ambassador.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Christmas cheer for households across the nation.
• Provide in-store support during the busy festive period.
• Stock shelves and ensure products are where they need to be.
• Serve customers and prepare orders for Click and Collect service.
• Ensure customers have a brilliant shopping experience.

Skills

Customer service

Rapport building

Initiative

Teamwork

Brand ambassador

Job description

Our Tesco Colleague rate of pay starts from 13.28 an hour; this increases to 14.55 for stores inside the M25. 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. Lets make every day a little better. Especially at Christmas.

You will be responsible for

• Youll help deliver Christmas cheer for households across the nation.
• Youll 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, youll take pride in making sure that customers get a brilliant experience.

You will need

• A passion for delivering great service, greeting customers with a smile, and serving them with pride
• The ability to build rapport with customers, meaning they leave the store having experienced a great shopping trip
• To take the initiative and make decisions that are right for our customers
• Work well within a team and communicate openly with others
• Build relationships with colleagues to create a team spirit, having fun and celebrating success
• Be at work on time, well presented and ready to be a brand ambassador

What’s in it for you?

About Us

At home or on-the-go, we want to be every customers favourite way to shop. Thats why our purpose is to serve our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We are happy to support flexibility for our colleagues in stores, and this can mean different things for different people. So if you are interested, we are happy to discuss how we can make this work for you, therefore if the times youre available to work match closely but not exactly to the times we are advertising, wed still love to hear from you.

Its our policy to offer our festivecolleagues joining us a minimum of 12guaranteed hours each week, but if youd 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

Everyones welcome

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.

Please note

If the role involves working in the warehouse, beers, wines & spirits, bakery, or driving, we are only able to accept candidates over the age of 18.

While we’re unable to provide individual feedback to all applicants, we will aim to provide feedback to candidates who are interviewed.

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.

For more information about us please visit [1] www.tescoplc.com

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Our Tesco Colleague rate of pay starts from 13.28 an hour; this increases to 14.55 for stores inside the M25. 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. Lets make every day a little better. Especially at Christmas.

You will be responsible for

• Youll help deliver Christmas cheer for households across the nation.
• Youll 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, youll take pride in making sure that customers get a brilliant experience.

You will need

• A passion for delivering great service, greeting customers with a smile, and serving them with pride
• The ability to build rapport with customers, meaning they leave the store having experienced a great shopping trip
• To take the initiative and make decisions that are right for our customers
• Work well within a team and communicate openly with others
• Build relationships with colleagues to create a team spirit, having fun and celebrating success
• Be at work on time, well presented and ready to be a brand ambassador

What’s in it for you?

About Us

At home or on-the-go, we want to be every customers favourite way to shop. Thats why our purpose is to serve our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We are happy to support flexibility for our colleagues in stores, and this can mean different things for different people. So if you are interested, we are happy to discuss how we can make this work for you, therefore if the times youre available to work match closely but not exactly to the times we are advertising, wed still love to hear from you.

Its our policy to offer our festivecolleagues joining us a minimum of 12guaranteed hours each week, but if youd 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

Everyones welcome

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.

Please note

If the role involves working in the warehouse, beers, wines & spirits, bakery, or driving, we are only able to accept candidates over the age of 18.

While we’re unable to provide individual feedback to all applicants, we will aim to provide feedback to candidates who are interviewed.

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.

For more information about us please visit [1] www.tescoplc.com

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Festive Colleague - Days - Hawkhurst

Company: Tesco

Salary: Competitive

Hours: Part-time

Location: Cranbrook, TN18 4HG

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 7 Oct 2026

Closing date: 20 Oct 2026

Summary

Our Tesco Colleague rate of pay starts from 13.28 an hour; this increases to 14.55 for stores inside the M25. 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. Lets make every day a little better. Especially at Christmas.

You will be responsible for

• Youll help deliver Christmas cheer for households across the nation.
• Youll 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, youll take pride in making sure that customers get a brilliant experience.

You will need

• A passion for delivering great service, greeting customers with a smile, and serving them with pride
• The ability to build rapport with customers, meaning they leave the store having experienced a great shopping trip
• To take the initiative and make decisions that are right for our customers
• Work well within a team and communicate openly with others
• Build relationships with colleagues to create a team spirit, having fun and celebrating success
• Be at work on time, well presented and ready to be a brand ambassador

What’s in it for you?

About Us

At home or on-the-go, we want to be every customers favourite way to shop. Thats why our purpose is to serve our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We are happy to support flexibility for our colleagues in stores, and this can mean different things for different people. So if you are interested, we are happy to discuss how we can make this work for you, therefore if the times youre available to work match closely but not exactly to the times we are advertising, wed still love to hear from you.

Its our policy to offer our festivecolleagues joining us a minimum of 12guaranteed hours each week, but if youd 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

Everyones welcome

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.

Please note

If the role involves working in the warehouse, beers, wines & spirits, bakery, or driving, we are only able to accept candidates over the age of 18.

While we’re unable to provide individual feedback to all applicants, we will aim to provide feedback to candidates who are interviewed.

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.

For more information about us please visit [1] www.tescoplc.com

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

About Disability Confident

Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions.