Tesco Colleague - Skilled Baker

Tesco UK; Scunthorpe; On-site; GBP 16,287,000 - 17,752,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Inclusive recruitment process

Job summary

Tesco UK is hiring for a Skilled Baker role in our stores. You’ll provide friendly, natural service, assist customers, and help maintain a welcoming bakery experience. The role supports bakery and wider store operations, ensuring high-quality products and great service throughout each shift.

Minimum 16 hours per week are guaranteed, with some locations offering more. You must be over 18, able to work flexibly, and work well in a team to create a positive customer experience.

Qualifications

• Must be over 18 for this role.
• Minimum 16 hours per week is guaranteed, with roles from 12 hours also available.
• Shifts scheduled within availability windows with at least 3 weeks’ notice.

Responsibilities

• Provide friendly, natural service and engage with customers around freshly baked products.
• Support Bakery and wider store operations, bake products to high standards, maintain availability, assist with queries, and deliver professional service.
• Make customer-focused decisions and complete bakery routines, from baking to stock checks, throughout the day.
• Understand how the role supports service, sales, waste reduction and overall store performance by producing quality products and keeping the bakery running smoothly.

Skills

Customer service

Teamwork

Communication

Flexibility

Job description

Customers are at the centre of everything we do. Working in our stores means variety, teamwork, and plenty of daily challenges. You’ll meet great people, learn new skills, and be part of an inclusive team. Whether you want stability, flexibility, or a chance to grow your career, this role could be a great fit.

Tesco Skilled Baker pay starts at £14.21 per hour, rising to £15.48 in stores within the M25. Some locations may offer additional payments.

We guarantee a minimum of 16 hours per week, though roles from 12 hours are also available. Your contracted hours will be scheduled within the availability windows shown, with at least 3 weeks’ notice of your shifts. If your availability is close to what we’re looking for, we still encourage you to apply.

• Providing friendly, natural service and getting to know your customers, offering advice on freshly baked products and creating a warm, welcoming bakery experience.
• Providing flexible support across the Bakery and wider store, including preparing and baking products to high standards, maintaining excellent availability, supporting with customer queries, and delivering a friendly, professional service that ensures customers leave feeling valued and well looked after.
• Making customer focused decisions and completing key bakery routines with care from baking and finishing products to managing stock, and quality checks, throughout the day.
• Understanding how your role supports great service, strong sales, waste reduction, and overall store performance by producing high quality products and keeping the bakery running smoothly.

• To be over 18 for this role.
• A passion for delivering great service, greeting customers with a smile, and serving them with pride.
• To build rapport so customers leave having had a great experience.
• To use your initiative and make the right decisions for customers.
• To work well in a team and communicate openly, having fun, and celebrating success.

Tesco’s vision is to be every customer’s favourite way to shop. Our purpose is to serve our customers, communities and the planet a little better every day by acting responsibly and sustainably.

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 understand that life varies for each of us, so we’re always open to conversations about flexible working. Talk to us during your application about how we can support you.

We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader, and we are committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

Tesco will only recruit individuals who have passed the school leaver's age.