Shift Lead

B&Q; Welwyn Garden City; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent home improvement retailer in Welwyn Garden City is looking for a Shift Lead who will be pivotal in creating a safe and enjoyable shopping experience. This role encompasses overseeing daily operations, managing staff, and ensuring compliance with safety standards. The ideal candidate should be passionate about customer service, a team player, and able to motivate others. A competitive salary and benefits such as a pension scheme, generous holiday, and shopping discounts are offered.

Benefits

Award-winning pension scheme

ShareSave options

6.6 weeks holiday

Payroll giving

Employee Assistance Programme

Shopping discounts

Colleague wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Key to running the business and leading teams effectively.
• Ability to oversee day-to-day operations for a safe environment.
• Skills in customer interaction and team motivating.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day store operations and ensure staff deployment.
• Act as the first point of contact for customer queries.
• Ensure store safety and compliance at all times.

Skills

Passionate about customers

Safety conscious

Team player

Energetic motivation

Confident decision-making

Job description

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

So we can support you during the application or interview process, please contact for any recruitment adjustments.