Shift Lead

B Q; Ashford; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Award-winning pension scheme

ShareSave options

6.6 weeks holiday

Payroll giving

Employee Assistance Programme

Shopping discounts

Colleague wellbeing benefits and lots

Job summary

B&Q Ashford is seeking a Shift Lead to manage a busy store, ensuring safety and great customer experience. You’ll oversee the shift, deploy colleagues, and be the first point of contact for customers and staff, with shifts from 5am to 9pm and occasional night cover.

This full-time role offers a permanent contract and a salary of £27,709.50 per year plus a generous pension and 6.6 weeks holiday, plus rewards and employee assistance.

Qualifications

• Passionate about customers and doing the right thing.
• Global view of store operations, not limited to a specific area.
• Safety conscious with an eye for detail to spot compliance opportunities.
• Enjoy interacting with colleagues and working in a team.
• Bring energy to each day and motivate those around you.
• Confident to have autonomy and trust to make decisions for the customer at pace.

Responsibilities

• Be the heartbeat of the store day-to-day and ensure operations are running smoothly.
• Make sure colleagues are deployed correctly to ‘make every customer count’ throughout your shift.
• Be the first point of contact for customers and colleagues.
• Make sure our stores are safe at all times.

Skills

Customer focus

Team working

Safety minded

Autonomy

Energetic

Decision making

Job description

Overview

Shift Lead

Full time 36.75 Hours per week

Permanent Contract

Full-time equivalent £27,709.50 per annum + Pension + 6.6 Weeks Holiday

B&Q Ashford

This is a keyholder position, with shifts ranging from an earliest start time of 5am to a latest finish time of 9pm. Occasional night cover

Every day, we give our millions of customers the ideas, advice, tools and confidence they need to create a home they’ll love. Join us as a Shift Lead and you’ll be a big part of this.

What's the job?

Role

Your role as a Shift Lead is pivotal in ensuring a safe working and shopping environment. You’re the person who will oversee your shift to cultivate a great experience for both colleagues and customers daily. It’s B&Q’s ambition to make every customer count, so you’ll strive to ensure B&Q is a place colleagues love to work, and customers love to shop. In this role you will:

• Be the heartbeat of the store day-to-day and ensure operations are running smoothly.


• Make sure colleagues are deployed correctly to ‘make every customer count’ throughout your shift.


• Be the first point of contact for customers and colleagues.


• Make sure our stores are safe at all times.

What We Need

Our shift leads are key to running our business through their teams. In this role, we’re looking for the following qualities:

• Passionate about customers and doing the right thing for them.


• Like to have a global view and not be constrained to specific areas of the store.


• Safety conscious and use an eye for detail to spot compliance opportunities.


• Enjoy interacting with colleagues and working in a team.


• Like to bring energy to each day and motivate those around you.


• Confident to have autonomy and trust to make decisions for the customer at pace.

What's in it for me?

As part of a great team, you’ll be valued for who you are. We’re committed to making B&Q more diverse and representative of the communities we serve, where everyone can feel they belong and have equal opportunities. You will have access to a range of networks that represent our colleagues and allies and help us to continue to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business.

We also recognise that wellness means different things to different people, and we want to help colleagues be at their best and feel well by offering a range of benefits to help you. As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes

• Award-winning pension scheme


• ShareSave options


• 6.6 weeks holiday


• Payroll giving


• Employee Assistance Programme


• Shopping discounts


• Colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more

If you require any additional support or reasonable adjustments to help you complete your application or throughout the recruitment process, please let us know. If you would like to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme please contact us at [e-mail]. If you meet the minimum criteria for the role, we'll consider your application in line with our Disability Confident commitments.