Phone Shop Manager - Huntingdon

What’s in it for you

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work.  These include but aren’t limited to:

• 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 £1,500 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
• Exclusive colleague deals on handsets and sims - these amazing deals can also be shared with your family and friends
• 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 the role

You will lead and motivate your team to communicate with our customers, offering expert sales advice and support to make sure that we sell them the best deal that meets their requirements, delivers unbeatable value, a great shopping experience and earns their lifetime loyalty.

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

• You will listen to customers and act on their feedback in a timely manner, following up on all complaints ensuring your team are clear on the role they play in improving the shopping experience based on customer feedback.
   
• You will deliver a great shopping trip for customers every day, making sure your team are working effectively as per the Tesco operating model.
   
• You will engage your team to deliver the best availability for customers throughout the day, spending time with the Stock and Admin manager to ensure that weekly RFID counts are completed.
   
• You will encourage your team to be passionate about our products, and ensure that our product range is presented well, maintaining correct handling and storage routines.
   
• You will create a first impression in your area for customers that you can be proud of, coaching your team to maintain shelf standards in the most efficient way, so customers can see and reach the product.
   
• You will lead the service culture in your department, always role modelling helpful and friendly service behaviours and demonstrating your enthusiasm to do what is right for our customers.
   
• You will actively control costs on your department and deliver your budgets, leading your team to minimise all aspects of waste and complete waste routines accurately.
   
• You will work with the business to grow sales, ensuring the successful implementation of scheduled range and merchandising activities in your department.
   
• You will engage your team to participate in bringing benefits to the local community, encouraging them to actively participate in our local community strategies.

You will need

• You will make sure your team are trained and have the confidence to approach customers and give them unbeatable value by selling the right products at the right price.
• You will work shoulder to shoulder with your team, your Area Manager and the management team to coach on what good looks like for the Phone Shop, working together to achieve shared success.
• You will celebrate success with your team and have pride in their achievements, being a caring manager and treating everyone with respect, helping your team to make the difference for customers and staff.

Behavioural Skills:

• Interacting with People
  • Establishing relationships and maintaining contacts with people from a wide variety of backgrounds.
• Customer Focus
  • Understanding the needs of the internal or external customer and keeping them in mind when taking actions or making decisions.
• Decision Making
  • Making decisions at the appropriate time, taking into account the needs of the situation, priorities, constraints and the availability of necessary information.
• Teamwork
  • Working co-operatively (rather than competitively) with others to achieve a common goal.

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.  

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re 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 & 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