Tesco Store Manager

Tesco; Tunbridge Wells; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK retailer is seeking a Store Manager for its Tunbridge Wells location. The successful candidate will lead, train, and develop a strong team, ensuring excellent customer service and operational efficiency. Responsibilities include driving sales, compliance, and team motivation. The role offers competitive benefits including holiday pay, employee discounts, and wellbeing services.

Benefits

20 days holiday plus personal day

10% off purchases

Flexible working options

Life insurance

Wellbeing services

Pension contributions

Qualifications

• Great communicator who shares knowledge and best practices.
• Natural and welcoming to customers, putting them at the heart of operations.
• Energy and resilience to maintain momentum in challenging environments.
• Decision-making ownership for the store, making prompt customer-focused decisions.
• Awareness of competition and proactive in improving store initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Recruit and train the best team members for operational success.
• Coach team to be passionate about products and build brand loyalty.
• Lead the driving of trade activity and grow sales profitably.
• Ensure safety and legal compliance within the store.
• Identify root cause issues and implement sustainable solutions.

Skills

Communication

Customer service

Leadership

Motivation

Analytical thinking

Job description

About the role

Tesco: Store Manager

Contract: Permanent

Shift Pattern: Varies from day to day but are planned in advance

Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.

You will be responsible for

• Recruiting and training the best people for your team, ensuring they have the capability to deliver above and beyond in their role by developing their operational and leadership skills.
• Coach your team to be passionate and knowledgeable about the products in your store, building its brand and providing customers with the right range, quality and service to ensure they keep coming back.
• Lead your team in the driving of trade activity, and use your expertise and knowledge to grow sales and maximise profit.
• Lead and build your managers knowledge to deliver and sustain Store Change Plan and resource planned activities ensuring that hours are worked when and where these would most benefit customers, and to identify and resolve root cause issues, with sustainable solutions and continual reviews.
• The safety of your colleagues is your top priority, and you ensure your store is always trading legally by coaching the team to use all security tools available to provide a safer place to work.

You will need

• You are a great communicator who will share knowledge, experience and best practices, you understand the importance of what you do and work collaboratively with your team to deliver results.
• You are natural and welcoming with customers, putting them at the heart of whatever you. You take the time to listen and understand others, building strong relationships with your colleagues and customers.
• You use your energy and resilience to keep momentum going when working in challenging environments. You own the decision making for the store, and can act quickly, making decisions based on what is right for customers and colleagues.
• You have energy and drive to deliver beyond expectation. You do the right thing whether everything is going well or times are tough, and know how to consistently be at your best, you inspire confidence in those around you.
• You are aware of what our competitors are doing and you are always looking for ways to build and deliver new initiatives to help improve our store for customers.

What’s 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. For more information about our colleague networks please click here.
• Click here to read more about the benefits we have available for our colleagues

About us

Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.

It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.

We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.

But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.

We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers

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