Tesco Shift Leader - Days - Emmer Green Esso Express

Tesco; Reading; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in Reading is looking for a Shift Leader to coordinate the store team and ensure an easy shopping experience for customers. The role involves varied responsibilities including supporting colleagues, maintaining store presentation, and acting as a key decision maker in the absence of management. This position offers flexible working hours and a supportive environment geared towards employee development.

Benefits

20 days of holiday plus personal day

Flexible working opportunities

10% discount on purchases

Access to free wellbeing services

Life cover and pension scheme

Uniform provided

Qualifications

• Great role model providing thoughtful customer service.
• Ability to build strong relationships with colleagues.
• Comfortable communicating and leading in manager's absence.
• Flexible decision maker in a fast-paced environment.
• Motivating individual inspiring team performance.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the store team for a fuss-free shopping experience.
• Support colleagues in daily priorities and breaks.
• Open and close the store, ensuring safety.
• Act as a go-to person for daily queries.
• Maintain a clean and tidy store presentation.
• Assist managers with community and charity events.

Skills

Customer service

Communication

Team leadership

Decision making

Flexibility

Job description

Overview

Tesco UK • Reading • Permanent • Apply by 27-Oct-2025

Availability Window
Days From time To time Mon 06:00:00 14:30:00 Tue 10:00:00 18:00:00 Wed 14:00:00 22:30:00 Fri 06:00:00 14:30:00 Sat 14:00:00 22:30:00

Shift rate 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.

What is in it for you

There are a lot of reasons why Tesco is a great place to work. Here are just a few of them.

• There\'s bags of variety. As Shift Leader, no two days are the same, and with flexible hours and shift patterns, you can work the hours that suit your lifestyle
• We take your development seriously, so this is a great place to get on in your career. You\'ll have ongoing learning opportunities, and access to award-winning training, so you can achieve the career you want
• It\'s an inclusive place where everyone\'s welcome. We celebrate the individuality of our colleagues - because they are what makes Tesco, Tesco
• Your voice matters, and we\'ll always welcome and listen to your ideas and opinions
• We put your wellbeing first, and support is always available if you need it
• Our colleagues are truly great people, so you can be confident that wherever you work in Tesco, you\'ll be in good company

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

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

You will need

• To be a great role model, by always giving thoughtful customer service that ensures every customers 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