Tesco Shift Leader - Days - Cambridge Christs Lane Express

Tesco; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading retail company in Cambridge is hiring a Shift Leader to coordinate the store team and provide excellent customer service. The role involves supporting colleagues, overseeing store operations in the manager's absence, and creating a positive work atmosphere. Applicants should have strong leadership skills, be clear communicators, and possess a commitment to great service. Benefits include flexible working opportunities and generous holiday allowances.

Benefits

20 days holiday plus personal day

10% discount

Free wellbeing services

Life cover of five times your pay

Pension with contributions

Uniform provided

Access to colleague networks

Qualifications

• Great customer service and role model.
• Strong relationships with colleagues.
• Clear communicator using various methods.
• Comfortable overseeing store in manager's absence.
• Good decision-maker adaptable to changes.
• Motivating to inspire team performance.
• Curious and innovative in customer service.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the team for a seamless shopping experience.
• Support colleagues to meet daily priorities.
• Open and close the store safely.
• Be the go-to person for queries in manager's absence.
• Ensure store cleanliness and presentation.
• Support community and charity events.
• Foster an inclusive team atmosphere.
• Provide exceptional customer service.
• Stay informed on store performance and improve operations.

Skills

Customer service

Team coordination

Clear communication

Leadership

Flexibility

Motivation

Job description

Overview

Tesco UK • Cambridge • Temporary • Apply by 08-Oct-2025

Availability Window
Days From time To time Sun 08:00:00 14:45:00 Mon 07:00:00 15:00:00 Tue 07:00:00 15:00:00 Wed 15:00:00 23:00:00 Thu 15:00:00 23:00:00 Fri 08:00:00 16:00:00 Sat 06:00:00 14:00:00

Our Shift Leader rate of pay starts from £14.76 an hour; this increases to £15.97 for stores inside the M25. Additional payments may also apply depending on location.

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. read more.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating the store team to deliver an easy, fuss-free shopping experience for customers
• Supporting your colleagues, ensuring they deliver daily priorities and take regular breaks
• Opening and closing the store, and completing duty cover, ensuring all decisions made are right for everyone's safety
• Being the go-to person for colleagues in the absence of a manager for day-to-day queries
• Making sure the store is always clean, tidy, and well-presented
• Supporting managers to coordinate seasonal, community and charity events
• Contributing to a great team atmosphere, that is inclusive of everyone
• Providing great customer service, by listening to our customers and putting them first in everything you do
• Keeping the team well-informed and up to speed on any communications, changes, or updates
• Staying knowledgeable about store performance, and looking for ways to improve and simplify operations
• Coordinating store improvements, and removing any obstacles that might be getting in the way of great service
• Following health and safety routines and procedures, and ensuring colleagues do the same
• Recognising and celebrating colleagues within the team who are providing great service

You will need

• To be a great role model, by always giving thoughtful customer service that ensures every customer\'s needs are met
• To build strong, long-lasting relationships with colleagues to create a positive and inclusive team atmosphere that encourages everyone to do their best work
• To be a clear communicator, comfortable with using a variety of methods to keep your team well-informed and up to date
• To be comfortable taking the lead, and overseeing the store in the absence of your Manager
• To be a good decision maker, who is flexible in the way you think, and comfortable handling change to ensure everything we do is right for customers and colleagues
• To be motivating, so you can inspire your team to deliver beyond expectations
• To be curious, and always on the lookout for ideas and opportunities to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day

Benefits

Our benefits include:

• 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
• Click read more to read more about the benefits we have available for our colleagues

What you will be responsible for

• Coordinating the store team to deliver an easy, fuss-free shopping experience for customers
• Supporting your colleagues, ensuring they deliver daily priorities and take regular breaks
• Opening and closing the store, and completing duty cover, ensuring all decisions made are right for everyone's safety
• Being the go-to person for colleagues in the absence of a manager for day-to-day queries
• Making sure the store is always clean, tidy, and well-presented
• Supporting managers to coordinate seasonal, community and charity events
• Contributing to a great team atmosphere, that is inclusive of everyone
• Providing great customer service, by listening to our customers and putting them first in everything you do
• Keeping the team well-informed and up to speed on any communications, changes, or updates
• Staying knowledgeable about store performance, and looking for ways to improve and simplify operations
• Coordinating store improvements, and removing any obstacles that might be getting in the way of great service
• Following health and safety routines and procedures, and ensuring colleagues do the same
• Recognising and celebrating colleagues within the team who are providing great service

What you will need

• To be a great role model, by always giving thoughtful customer service that ensures every customer\'s needs are met
• To build strong, long-lasting relationships with colleagues to create a positive and inclusive team atmosphere that encourages everyone to do their best work
• To be a clear communicator, comfortable with using a variety of methods to keep your team well-informed and up to date
• To be comfortable taking the lead, and overseeing the store in the absence of your Manager
• To be a good decision maker, who is flexible in the way you think, and comfortable handling change to ensure everything we do is right for customers and colleagues
• To be motivating, so you can inspire your team to deliver beyond expectations
• To be curious, and always on the lookout for ideas and opportunities to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day

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 please click here

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