Shift Lead

B&q; Barking; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discount card

Pension

Holiday entitlement

Employee assistance programme

Life assurance

Job summary

B&Q is looking for a Shift Lead in the United Kingdom to oversee store shifts from early morning to late evening, ensuring smooth operations, safety, and customer focus. You’ll be the first point of contact for staff and customers and responsible for deploying colleagues to maximise daily outcomes.

This role emphasizes team leadership, proactive problem solving, and maintaining a secure shopping environment, with emphasis on delivering a great customer experience.

Qualifications

• 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.

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 service orientation

Team leadership

Safety awareness

Decision making

Communication

Job description

Full-time equivalent £29,596.98 per annum (Inclusive of £2044 per annum, store specific location allowance) + Pension + 6.6 Weeks Holiday

This is a keyholder position, with shifts ranging from an earliest start time of 5am to a latest finish time of 10pm

Every day, we give our millions of customers theideas, 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.

Key responsibilities

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.

Required skills & experience

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

• ShareSave options
• Payroll giving
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more

Discount card

The one we all love! Get 20% discount on your purchases at B&Q in-store and online, after you've been with us for 1 month.

Share in the success you help create. With our shareplans, from just £5 per month, you can build up a savings pot, or use what you save to be a Kingfisher share holder.

Life assurance

If the worst should happen, Life Assurance ensures those close to you have some protection.

Employee assistance programme

We offer free and confidential support and counselling to help you through matters such as wellbeing, divorce, legal, and financial management.

Salary/Bonus

We offer competitive salaries for all roles, and benchmark them, to ensure that we're getting it right. And, as we value the contribution of all our colleagues equally, whether they are 17 or 70, our rates of pay for each job is the same.

Pension

You'll have access to the award-winning Kingfisher Pension Scheme, and we'll put money in alongside your savings too.

Medical

We have a number of medical benefits available depending on your role to help you and your family look after yourselves.

Leave

All work and no play is no fun! So, you can enjoy 6.6 weeks' leave, plus we'll reward you with additional leave and cash rewards to celebrate long service anniversaries and milestone years.

The chance to achieve more balance between work and your other commitments.

Take advantage of fantastic discounts on loads of products and services, just for being a B&Q colleague!

We have a network of over 3,300 health clubs offering discounts to colleagues and their partners of up to 25% on self-paid gym memberships.

Eye care

If you use a computer regularly for work, then we pay for your eye testevery two years. If you do require glasses, then you'll also get £50/€70 towards single focal lenses and frames too.

Cycling to work scheme

Whether you are thinking green, trying to get fit or saving money, our cycle to work scheme helps colleagues spread the cost and save money on any bike and safety equipment through salary sacrifice.

Long service

Just like most families, we like to celebrate anniversaries and milestone years. For every 10 years up to 40 years' service we give extra annual leave and a cash payment.

" It's great to know I'm getting loads of training and exposure to senior leaders as I work towards my next role. "

" Best thing about B&Q is all the different people you meet. Everyone's chatty and friendly, which makes it that much easier to get on with everyone. "

" I really go home with a sense of achievement at the end of the day. "

Training &
development

Learn & Develop at B&Q

When you join B&Q, we want you to be all you can be. From the minute you walk through our doors to the exciting moment you make that next career move, we're here to help you make the most of every opportunity. Thanks to our friendly learning system, LEO, we make sure you always have the support you need to take on every challenge and fit your learning around your life. Here, we know that the best way to grow is together.

Flexible learning with Leo

LEO is your every day, on the go learning and development partner. Helping you build the knowledge you need now and in the future. With LEO, you can access training and content, anywhere, anytime and on any device. You can even influence the type of training on offer by rating and recommending content, and letting us know what we can do to improve. Award-winning and featuring over 500 different learning activities - like short videos, articles, workshops and webinars - think of LEO as your 24/7 training pal, designed to help you make the most of your B&Q career journey.

Developing in role

Learning never stops at B&Q. Whether you've been in your role for one day or five years, there's always something to be curious about. It's why we're always creating learning opportunities and experiences that'll give you the chance to develop your skills. Like our First Line Manager programme: a course that helps our newest line managers build their confidence and management skills. Or our Leadership Development programme that challenges our more experienced leaders to reflect on and adapt their approach for our ever‑evolving ways of working.

Building expertise and know-how

We believe anyone can learn the technical skills to do your job with excellence. It's all about attitude and behaviour here. So, if you're passionate about customer service and design, we'll teach you how to create beautiful kitchens. If you're someone who loves being outdoors, we'll help you learn about our garden ranges. And, if you're someone who just loves what we do but doesn't know where to start, we'll help you find the perfect role for you to grow into.

Accelerated Development Talent Programmes

Whatever goal you're working to at B&Q, we want to help you get there. We do this by designing a number of programmes which help you to practice your skills and learn new ones, gain valuable experiences, learn from others and jump on opportunities that are right for you. From leaders taking their first steps into management to those simply looking for a new challenge, we're there to make sure you achieve your ambitions.

Induction

At B&Q, we want every new colleague to understand our values, our customers, and how we work together to achieve our purpose. That's why we've designed an induction programme that'll give you real insight into our business, our culture and help you feel included from day one. For your first few weeks on the job you'll work with your team and line manager, mixing online learning with practical tasks, to grow your knowledge a little every day.

Our Shift Leads work together with our Department Managers to develop, inspire and motivate their teams. They support the day to day activities of their department and strive to create teams who take care of each other, and the customers they help every day.

Step 4:

We'll contact you with feedback, and maybe even a job offer.