Shift Lead

B Q; Crawley; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; 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 Crawley is seeking a Shift Lead for a permanent, full-time role (36.75 hours per week). The position includes a store location allowance and pension, with a salary around £29,257 per year, plus six weeks holidays.

You will oversee shifts, ensure safety, and deliver a great customer experience daily. As a keyholder, you’ll manage colleague deployment, support standards, and be the first point of contact for customers and staff, working from early morning to late evening across all daily store

Qualifications

• Store leadership and safety awareness.
• Ability to oversee a shift and deploy colleagues effectively.
• Customer-first mindset with focus on compliance and standards.

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

Big-picture view

Safety conscious

Team player

Energetic

Autonomous decisions

Job description

Permanent Contract

B&Q Crawley

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 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.

Overview

Shift Lead

Full time - 36.75 Hours per week

Permanent Contract

Full-time equivalent £ 29,257.41 per annum (Inclusive of £0.81 per hour, store specific location allowance) + Pension + 6.6 Weeks Holiday

B&Q Crawley

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 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.