Shift Lead

B&Q Limited; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 14,000 - 15,000; Part time

Job summary

B&Q Chelmsford is seeking a part-time Shift Lead to oversee a shift, ensuring a safe shopping and working environment while delivering a great in-store experience for colleagues and customers.

The role requires strong customer focus, teamwork, and the ability to make quick decisions. The position offers a pension, 6.6 weeks holiday, and a store location allowance as part of the pay package.

Qualifications

• Customer-focused and doing the right thing for customers.
• Ability to see the store as a whole and think beyond individual zones.
• Safety-minded with attention to compliance opportunities.
• Enjoy interacting with colleagues and working in a team.
• Bring energy to each day and motivate those around you.
• Confident to make autonomous decisions for the customer at pace.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Customer focus

Big picture thinking

Safety conscious

Team player

Energetic

Decision making

Job description

Part time - 18.5 Hours per week

Permanent Contract

14.77 per hour (Inclusive of £0.27 per hour, store specific location allowance) + Pension + 6.6 Weeks Holiday

B&Q Chelmsford

This is a keyholder position, with shifts ranging from an earliest start time of 6am 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.

What's the job?

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