Tesco Colleague - Ballymena Superstore

Tesco; Ballymena; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday 20 days + personal day + bank

Flexible working from day one

Colleague Clubcard discounts

Wellbeing services

Life cover five times pay + pension

Cycle to work scheme

Uniform provided

Colleague networks

Job summary

Tesco Colleague role in Ballymena offers a flexible hours pattern with guaranteed minimum weekly hours and paid rates from £13.28 per hour. You will welcome customers, provide helpful service and work across store areas to keep shelves stocked and assist with deliveries.

The role emphasises teamwork, reliability and a positive attitude in a busy retail environment. Benefits include 20 days holiday plus bank holidays, Staff Clubcard discounts, life cover and a pension, plus wellbeing resources

Qualifications

• A passion for delivering great service.
• Ability to build rapport with customers.
• Take initiative and make customer-centered decisions.
• Work well within a team and communicate openly with others.
• Be punctual, well presented and brand ambassador.
• Able to adapt to flexible working patterns.

Responsibilities

• Knowing your customers and serving them with passion and pride.
• Provide knowledgeable service about products and services.
• Work across the store in service, picking and replenishment areas.
• Apply training to work safely, effectively and serve customers brilliantly.
• Make decisions right for customers and deliver in-store routines.
• Participate in seasonal, community and charity events.
• Understand store performance and contribute to drive service and sales.
• Handle products with care to maintain quality for customers.
• Be yourself, follow policies and support all-life moments.
• Occasionally assist with deliveries to the store.

Skills

Customer service

Teamwork

Communication

Flexibility

Tools

POS system

Job description

About the role

Availability Window

Days From time To time Mon 06:00:00 12:00:00 Tue 06:00:00 13:00:00 Wed 10:30:00 16:45:00 Sat 06:00:00 14:00:00

Our Tesco Colleague rate of pay starts from £13.28 an hour. Additional payments may also apply depending on location and skills.

It’s our policy to offer new colleagues joining us a minimum of 16 guaranteed hours each week, but if you’d like to work fewer hours (to a minimum of 12) we have opportunities for this too and would still love to hear from you.

The table shows the periods of time in the week we’d like you to be available to work - the availability windows. We will schedule your contracted hours within these times, and you’ll have 3 weeks’ notice of exactly when your shifts will be. We are happy to support flexibility for our colleagues, therefore if the times you are available to work match closely but not exactly to the times we are advertising, we’d still love to hear from you.

Customers are at the heart of everything we do.

It takes lots of different people to run a store and this is a job for doers, with plenty of variety. It’s a committed role, full of everyday challenges, but that’s one of the things that makes it so exciting.

• Being a colleague in one of our stores means that you will help to serve our shoppers better every day.
• You’ll meet great people, learn new things and be part of a specialist, diverse team where everyone is welcome.
• Whether you are looking for stability or flexibility to suit your lifestyle, or the opportunity to progress your career, this can be the role for you.

PLEASE NOTE YOU MUST BE OVER 18 TO APPLY FOR THIS ROLE.

What is in it for you

• Holiday starting at 20 days plus a personal day rising to 22 days after 12 months (plus Bank holidays)
• Request flexible working from day one
• Get 10% off and 15% at pay day weekends - save up to £2,000 a year with your Colleague Clubcard with an additional card to share with family outside your home
• Access to free wellbeing services with a range of resources to support your mind, body, and life
• Life cover of five times your pay and an award-winning pension with matching contributions up to 7.5%
• Benefits to suit you, choose what you use - from discounts and shares to cycle to work schemes
• Uniform provided and policies to support you for all of life’s moments, big and small
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds.

You will be responsible for

• Knowing your customers and serving them with passion and pride; giving great natural service.
• Passionate and knowledgeable about the products and services within my store.
• Working across the store in our service, picking and replenishment areas where required.
• Putting into practice the training you have received, so we all work safely, effectively and serve our customers brilliantly.
• Making decisions that are right for customers, delivering routines in store that meet the needs of customers at the right time.
• Taking part in seasonal, community and charity events, creating a great inclusive atmosphere.
• Being knowledgeable about your store's performance, understanding the part you play and what we need to do together to drive service and sales, reduce waste and shrink and deliver profit.
• Handling products with care to maintain quality and ensure they reach customers in the best condition.
• Being myself, living our values, making everyone feel welcome and always following our policies.
• At times, you may be required to accept deliveries into the store

You will need

• A passion for delivering great service, greeting customers with a smile, and serving them with pride
• The ability to build rapport with customers, meaning they leave the store having experienced a great shopping trip
• To take the initiative and make decisions that are right for our customers
• Work well within a team and communicate openly with others
• Build relationships with colleagues to create a team spirit, having fun and celebrating success
• Be at work on time, well presented and ready to be a brand ambassador

About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we are a place where Everyone’s Welcome.

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We are proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we are committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here .

Please note

Tesco will only recruit individuals who have passed the school leaver’s age. To find out the school leavers age for your country.

We can only accept candidates over the age of 18 if the role requires working before 6:15 am or after 9:45 pm or involves working in areas such as the warehouse, beers, wines and spirits, counters, bakery and driving roles.

On the occasions where we have high volumes of applicants, some roles may close earlier than the advertised end date in order for us to manage all of the applicants appropriately. We will only be able to offer individual feedback to those candidates who attend an interview.

For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com